<h1>Budget utilisation oversight directive to fix officer accountability, accelerate spending and ensure timely fund release.</h1> Departments must assign a specific officer at every level to ensure timely budget utilisation, accelerate spending where progress is slow, hold monthly review meetings to remove bottlenecks, and improve coordination among ministers and senior officers. The finance department is to immediately release pending sanctioned allocations delayed for procedural reasons, while departments must actively pursue timely receipt of central assistance. Early preparation of the next financial year's budget is required, including five-year expenditure reviews and an action plan aligning allocations with implementation capacity.