Governor Badaru Presents N260.7bn Budget To Lawmakers

Governor Muhammad Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State has presented the sum of N178,570,000,000.00 as a state appropriation bill for 2023.

The governor presented the bill to the state House of Assembly yesterday for the legislative action in according to constitution.

Badaru stated that the sum of N89.2 billion was allocated to capital projects and equally N89.3 billion allocated to recurrent expenditures including personal cost, public debt, and stabilization.

As usual, education sector took the lion share with allocation of N22.4 billion, health N14.4 billion, water and sanitation N4.9 billion, road N19.5, agriculture N6.5 billion, commerce N1.3 billion and rural economic empowerment N1 billion.

The governor however presented the sum of N82.2 billion as 2023 proposed budget for the 27 local government councils of the state.

Governor Badaru also narrated some of the achievements made by his government with the launching of a six-year compendium of his administration.