Nasarawa Assembly Passes N156.6bn Supplementary Budget Into Law

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed the Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N156.6bn into law.

The speaker, Mr Danladi Jatau, announced the passage of the bill into law during the House proceedings on Wednesday in Lafia.

Speaker Jatau said that the supplementary appropriation bill if signed into law by the governor, would give the state government power to complete ongoing projects.

He observed that the executive has achieved a lot in revenue generation in the year under review.
“The total size of the recurrent expenditure after adjustment stands at N150,310, 075,773.14, whereas the total size of the capital expenditure will be N206, 256,774,325.22

“The total size of the budget for the year 2024 after adjustment is N356,566,850,098.36,” he said.
The speaker directed the clerk of the House to produce a clean copy of the bill for the governor’s assent.

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Earlier, the deputy majority leader, Mr Abel Yakubu Bala, moved a motion for the bill to scale to the third reading, which was seconded by the minority leader of the House, Hon. Luka Iliya Zhekaba. The House then unanimously passed the bill into law.