Presidential Palace Office Failed as Cabinet to Spend Budget for 1395

Officials at Presidential palace office have only spent 36,73 percent of the allocated development budget for the year of 1395, amid experts addressed poor management in Afghan Government leaderships, ongoing disagreements between leaders, and personal relations in Government body caused the budgets to remain without consumption.

President Deputy Spokesman Shah Hussien Murtazawe said, “Low capacity in Governmental departments is the major and fundamental problem which halted the development budgets to be spent in the right time with full volume, efforts are underway to resolve the following issue.”

Experts believed that poor management in Afghan Government leaderships, ongoing disagreement between leaders, and personal ties in different levels have caused the departments not to be able to spend the allocated budgets.

Professor Reza Farzam said, “The basic problem is coming from the disagreement of the National Unity Government leaders, they pick none talented Ministers to run the departments. “

Economy expert Shaber Bashiri said, “The political disagreements between leaders and none political stability will underestimate all the economical sources where we can invest on.”

Lower house of the parliament summoned 17 Ministers of the National Unity Government for not spending the development budgets for the year of 1394 and 7 of the Ministers were dismissed after holding voting process, and now the Presidential palace office spent 36,73 percent for the year of 1395.

Reported by: Ahmad Farshad Saleh