Kwara Assembly passes 2025 budget, raises it by N44.3bn

The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the 2025 budget proposal of N584.69 billion.

The passed budget was N44.33 billion higher than the N540.37 billion presented to the House by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazak in December last year.

The Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, passed the appropriation bill after it was read the third time by the Clerk of the House, Alhaji Kareem Ahmed.

Danladi-Salihu, thereafter, directed the Clerk to prepare a clean copy of the budget estimate for the governor’s assent.

Earlier, the Chairman of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, Fatimah Lawal, presented the committee’s report to the House and this was considered before the budget estimate was passed.

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Lawal said that the approved estimate contained a Recurrent Expenditure of N205,296,792,087 against N204,711,117,857; indicating an increase of N585,674,233.

She added that the capital expenditure was raised by N43, 739,692.689 to N379, 396,694,597 from N335, 657,001,908 presented by the governor.

The chairman said the budget estimate was thoroughly scrutinised as relevant government ministries, agencies, parastatals, and other stakeholders were invited for clarifications before arriving at the approved budget.

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