Gov. Sule presents N100.5bn 2020 budget to Nasarawa Assembly for approval

Nasarawa state governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule has presented the 2020 budget proposal of N100.52 billion only to the state House of Assembly for consideration and approval.

Mr. Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, the speaker of the house, who received the budget on Wednesday after Sule's presentation, promised the state government of speedy passage of the budget to enable the people of the state benefits from more dividends of democracy.

Sule, who tagged the budget as "Budget of Inclusive Development", explained that his administration policy is anchored on transparency, accountability, and prudency for the overall development of the state and the country at large.

He, therefore, pledged the assembly of full implementation of the budget if finally passed into law for the benefit of the people of the state.

His words, "I hereby present the 2020 appropriation bill of N100,519,956,857 to you for your consideration and approval.

“A total of N56,733, 129, 610billion of the budget is earmarked for Recurrent expenditure while N43,786,827,247 of the total budget is earmarked as Capital Expenditure for the year 2020."

The governor promised the citizen of the state that the budget will be used to complete all ongoing projects, provision of social services, youth empowerment programmes among others for the benefits of the people of the state.

He added that his administration would also create an enabling environment for business and other activities to thrive in the state.

He urged the members to give the budget proposal speedy passage to enable the state government to execute developmental projects across the state.

Balarabe-Abdullahi, the speaker of the House assured the state government of the House readiness to do justice to the budget for the overall development of the state.

"I, therefore, call on all government agencies, ministries and parastatals MDAs to cooperate with the assembly so that this budget will be pass in the shortest possible time," he stated.

He further promised the governor of their continued commitment to partner with the executive arm in order to take the state to the next level of development.

He called on the people of the state to pray and support all leaders to enable them to succeed in the task ahead of them.

It was gathered that education, Science and ICT got the lion share with N26.3billion while infrastructure and works followed with N18billion, Government and General Administration got N16.81billion, Finance, Investment, and Trade N11billion while Health sector got N9.7billion as Agriculture and Water Resources comes behind with N2.44billion