Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Edo Assembly Passes N159.3bn Budget Estimate for 2015


The Edo House of Assembly on has passed the 2015 budget estimates of N159.3 billion.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole had on September 23 presented a budget size of N156.551 billion to the assembly for consideration.
Considering the budget, the assembly shored up the appropriation bill with about N3 billion.
Speaking on the occasion of the 2015 appropriation, the Chairman, Committee on Appropriation and Project Monitoring, Hon. Peter Aliyu (APC Etsako East), said the budget proposal as presented by the governor reflected the views of the people and meant to complete all ongoing projects.
During the consideration of the appropriation bill, the sum of N88.6 billion was
allocated for capital expenditure, while the sum of N70.7 billion was allocated for re-current expenditure.
The break down of the appropriation bill shows that the sum of N19.3 billion, N5.5billion N2.8billion, N20.3billion was allocated for the recurrent expenditure of the administrative sector, economic sector, law and justice and social sector respectively.
Similarly, the sum of the sum of N4.3 billion and the N36.9 billion was allocated for capital expenditures for the administrative and economic sectors among others.
The assembly after consideration of the bill with amendment passed the bill.
The Speaker, Hon. Uyi Igbe, thereafter directed that clean copies of the bill be sent to the governor for his accent.
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