Atanga Nji Paul, Minister of Territorial Administration defends the budget of his ministerial department for fiscal year 2022 in front of the Committee on Finance and the Budget of the National Assembly, chaired by Madame Ayayi Rosette.
Atanga Nji Paul's presentation revolves around two principal axis which expounds on the activities and results obtained with the execution of the 2021 budget of MINAT and the prospects, projections and budget request for 2022.
He stated that for fiscal year 2021, Thirty-four billion, Seven Hundred and Thirty-five million ( 34, 735 000 000) was allocated to MINAT. Of the total amount, Two billion, Six hundred and Fifty million was earmarked for investment while the rest was used as running budget.
The MINAT boss told the members that his ministerial department was requesting for fiscal year 2022 the sum of Thirty-six billion Four Hundred and Fifty-two million. Of this amount, he said Two Billion, Nine Hundred and Fifty Million, (2,950 000,000) was earmarked for investment while 33,752,000,000 would be running budget for the Ministry.
After giving details of how the budget will be executed, Atanga Nji Paul stated that priority projects for the 2022 will include the improvement of the working conditions of administrative officials in the domains of infrastructure and logistics like vehicles, increasing the running budgets of Governors, SDOs and DOs as well as control of sensitive sectors like private security companies, control of armouries and gaming establishments.
Atanga Nji Paul also stated that the requested budget for 2022 will permit MINAT embark on strengthening cross-border cooperation, supervision of traditional institutions as well as optimising of disaster prevention and management. He said the budget will further permit his ministerial department to implement the tripartite agreement between Cameroon, Nigeria and UNHCR for the voluntary repatriation of some Nigeria refugees living in Cameroon
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