{"id":224676,"date":"2016-06-22T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=224676"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:34:43","slug":"finance-ministry-overspends-2015-abfa-by-34-piac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/finance-ministry-overspends-2015-abfa-by-34-piac\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Ministry overspends 2015 ABFA by 34 % – PIAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Finance spent 34% more of the total Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA) allocated to it from oil revenues accrued in 2015.<\/p>\n

The ministry spent GH\u00a2 1,124.2 million compared to the GH\u00a2 1,086.28 million allocated to it.<\/p>\n

This is according to the 2015 Annual Report on the Management of Petroleum Revenues by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC).<\/p>\n

The report also noted that the 2015 amount of GH\u00a2 1,086.28 million amount was however higher than the GH\u00a2 1,125 million allocated in 2014.<\/p>\n

The highest amount of over 400 million cedis representing about 43% was allocated to the roads and other infrastructure sector.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Agriculture modernization received the least of about 60 million cedis representing 5% of the total ABFA for 2015.<\/p>\n

A full breakdown of the utilization of the 2015 ABFA is illustrated in the table below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Priority Area<\/td>\n2015 Revised ABFA Budget (GH\u00a2)<\/td>\nActual ABFA Utilization (GH\u00a2)<\/td>\nPercentage share of ABFA (%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Expenditure on Armotisation of loans for Oil & Gas infrastructure<\/td>\n322,306,372.57<\/td>\n439,234,363.92<\/td>\n39.07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roads and Other Infrastructure<\/td>\n492,917,039.43<\/td>\n483,347,384.00<\/td>\n42.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Agriculture Modernisation<\/td>\n30,567,167.50<\/td>\n59,544,174.03<\/td>\n5.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Capacity Building (including Oil & Gas)<\/td>\n217,157,581.99<\/td>\n142,074,292.19<\/td>\n12.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n1,062,948,161.49<\/strong><\/td>\n1,124,200,214.14<\/strong><\/td>\n100<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Oil revenue declines in 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oil revenue for the period under review declined by about 100 million dollars compared to government’s target for the year.<\/p>\n

Figures quoted in the PIAC report indicated that total petroleum receipts in 2015 amounted to 396.17 million dollars below the revised 496.31 million dollars.<\/p>\n

The 2015 oil receipts were also more than fifty percent less than the figure recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n

The 2014 receipts of 978.02 million dollars were 581.85 million dollars more than the 396.17 million dollars million dollars recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n

The development, the Committee contends was significantly due to the huge decline to the lower than expected crude oil price for a greater part of the year.<\/p>\n

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