If the government can, within limits, be indulged in its up tempo reportage on the country’s first trillion dollar budget allocation, it needs to be reminded that, unlike in previous years, failure to effectively deliver (partially or entirely) on promises to which monies were allocated utilizing arguments about limited funding have now become far less credible given the enormous increase in the overall budgetary allocation this year. Here it should be stated that gaps between the articulation of promises made in previous budget presentations and their eventual full, and final execution, under various political administrations, can, in many instances, be identified with relative ease.
