Gombe Lawmakers Approve N208bn 2024 Budget
The Gombe State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved N208.064 billion as the state’s budget for 2024, reflecting an increase of N300 million over the N207.75 billion submitted by Gov. Inuwa Yahaya.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Chief Information Officer of the House, Mr Umaru Ma’aji, on Wednesday in Gombe.
According to the statement, the Speaker of the House, Abubakar Luggerewo, appreciated the lawmakers for their support, cooperation, and how the Appropriation Bill was handled.
The House Information Officer, Ma’aji said the Bill was passed after the House Committee on Appropriation on the 2024 budget estimate scrutinised and presented it before the house for adoption and subsequent passage.
Also, the Chairman, Appropriation on the 2024 budget, Mr Aliyu Baba-Manu, said the budget focused on the completion of all ongoing projects in the state.
Ma’aji reported the chairman to have said his committee observed that most of the MDAs budget officers were not conversant with the budget provisions, guided by the medium-term expenditure framework, MTEF.
Baba-Manu, therefore, recommended that the budget office should transmit the executive council’s approved budget to ministries, to consider the N208 billion budget size for 2024.
Gov. Yahaya had on December 4 presented a 2024 budget of N207.75 billion which is tagged: “Budget of Continuity and Consolidation” to the House for legislative consideration.
The budget proposal is made up of N87.25 billion or 42 per cent for recurrent expenditure, and N120.5 billion or 58 percent for capital expenditure.
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