MINFI boss launches 2026 State Budget in Ngaoundere today.

It is an annual ritual that always sees the finance minister opening the State purse to kick-start business of collecting and spending public money. 

Minister Motaze’s entourage has officials from among others: the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, MINEPAT; the Minister of Public Contracts, Ibrahim Talba Malla, and his collaborators; the Director General of Customs, Edwin Fongod Nuvaga, and his collaborators; the Director General of the Budget, Cyril Edou Alo'o; the Director General of the Treasury, Financial and Monetary Cooperation, Moh Sylvester, and the Director General of Taxation, Roger Menyong Abath, and their respective senior collaborators.

The team from Yaounde was received in Ngaoundere by the Governor of the Adamawa Region, Kildadi Taguieke Boukar alongside oother local administrative, municipal, traditional and religious authorities. 

According to the Communication Unit of MINFI, the Adamawa Regional capital will capture national attention for three days viz; January 12 to 14. After the budget launch today, the Minister of Finance will visit government offices tomorrow January 14. 

Besides launching the budget, the minister is also expected to hold talks with key collaborators of the Ministry of Finance in the three Northern regions.

To note that the 2026 budget is capped at over 8.816 billion FCFA. The Minister of Finance recently made public a circular bearing instructions on the implementation, monitoring of the said budget.

In the circular, Minister Motaze stated that the Finance Law is within a context of persistent geopolitical tension on the global stage and health constructions that are slowing growth.

He also mentioned increased trade tension, restrictive monetary policies with measures being taken at the level of the CEMAC sub region to strengthen the macroeconomic framework.

The minister said nationally, government is guided by a philosophy of ensuring public policies deliver inclusive economic growth through industrial transformation and stepping up the living conditions of citizens.

Other priority areas the circular notes are; improving security with focus on surveillance both at the borders and internally, enhancing disarmament and social welfare with moves to improve decentralisation, stabilising the financial equilibrium of the electricity sector with government taking over the Energy of Cameroon, ENEO, ensuring diligence in the rehabilitation of the National Oil Refining Company, SONARA, among other major projects.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3672 of Tuesday January 13, 2026