Gaidam Presents ₦91.6b Budget For Yobe State To Lawmakers

Yobe State governor, Ibrahim Gaidam yesterday, presented a ₦91,647,597,000 budget for 2019 before the state House of Assembly, tagging it Budget of Consolidation.

He said: “In this budget, we intend to consolidate the gains recorded so far by completing all the major legacy projects being executed by our administration before handing over to the incoming APC administration in the state.

“We intend to hand over to the incoming administration a government that is free from any debt and without any uncompleted capital project, and that has a robust civil service to plan and implement any project.”

Gaidam said Yobe State government projected ₦49,968,967,000 or 54.5 percent for recurrent expenditure and ₦41,678,630,600 or 45.5 percent as capital spending.

The governor said: “The 2019 budget is slightly below that of 2018. It is ₦534,739,000 or 0.6 percent less than 2018’s.”

He said the economic sector had been allocated ₦30,635,430,000, governance sector ₦17,473, 893, 500, regional sector (covering water supply, environment and housing) ₦4,431,968,000, law and justice ₦2,298,887,000 and social sector ₦36,807,418,500.

The governor revealed that education had been allocated ₦22,497,645,000 under the social sector.

“We will continue to take steps to revitalise education for the progress of our state depends on it,” he said.