{"id":4577,"date":"2025-10-20T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:43:57","slug":"mps-give-finance-7-days-to-release-funds-to-micro-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/4577\/future\/mps-give-finance-7-days-to-release-funds-to-micro-project\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs give Finance 7-days to release funds to Micro-Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Portfolio Committee has pressed for urgent action on the release of funds allocated through the Contingency Fund to procure a \u2018yellow plant\u2019 under the Micro-projects Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The micro-projects initiative falls under the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. According to the Committee\u2019s report, the budget for micro-projects was approved and the Contingency Fund was directed for the procurement of the yellow plant, yet no disbursement has been made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Economic Planning and Development must liaise with the Ministry of Finance to release the funds as Parliament pronounced itself that the Contingency Fund should be directed to the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development for the procurement of the yellow plant, within 7 days after the adoption of this report by Parliament,\u201d reads the recommendation from the Ministry\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018yellow plant\u2019 refers to heavy-duty construction or earth-moving equipment to support micro-project infrastructure (such as roads, community halls, footbridges) across chiefdoms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4582\" style=\"width: 1291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4582\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PAGE-4-Parliamentarians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1291\" height=\"968\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Parliamentarians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While detailed public records of the exact item and its cost are limited, previous Ministry documents link the Micro-projects Programme to community infrastructure delivery and asset procurement.<\/p>\n<p>The delay in funds release is seen as a bottleneck for ongoing micro-project implementation. The Ministry of Finance was previously instructed to pay Micro-Projects E100 million in the next seven days in 2024 under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>During the House debate last week, MPs expressed frustration that community-level infrastructure remains stalled due to inaction.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that despite budget approval and Parliament\u2019s directive, the equipment critical for groundworks remains unprocured and non-operational.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee further recommends approval of the Ministry\u2019s 2nd Quarter Budget Performance for FY 2025\/26 conditional on the prompt release of the Contingency Fund and the procurement being visibly underway.<\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"4553\"  data-title=\"\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumbtype=\"\" ><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the Ministry fails to act within the seven-day window, Parliamentarians have implied further oversight steps will follow, potentially including site visits, project freezes or re-allocation of funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portfolio Committee has pressed for urgent action on the release of funds allocated through the Contingency Fund&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,26],"tags":[46,73,58],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-future","category-national","category-swaziland","tag-africa","tag-eswatini","tag-national","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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