From El-Yakub Dabai, Birnin Kebbi
Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi State has on Wednesday presented the 2024 appropriation bill tagged “Infrastructural development and human empowerment budget” to the State House of Assembly for consideration.
The budget presentation of over N250.1b which was the maiden activity at the State Assembly had N159.4b as capital expenditure while N90.6b was earmarked for recurrent expenditure as against last year’s total budget of about N157b.
The budget if passed into law according to the Governor would be used to finance infrastructure, agricultural, education, security, commerce and industry for the overall development of the state.
He further stated that proposed revenues as well as statutory allocation coming from the federation account were estimated in the sum of over N79.2b while the internally generated revenues were put at over N18.3b .
Responding, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mohammed Usman Ankwai, assured a speedy passage of the budget.
