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Treasury CS John Mbadi during the 2025 Budget reading on June 12th,2025 at Parliament [Elvis Ogina,Standard]
It is instructive that the theme guiding the 2025 Budget Statement was economic recovery, rather than economic turnaround and transformation, or as put by the Head of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors late last year, “navigating turbulence, driving transformation”.
With the 2027 election in two years and only one full budget after 2025/26, where is “bottom-up”?
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