Kwara Governor signs 2020 Budget

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq signed the 2020 Appropriation Bill on Thursday.

He said the document was designed to rebuild the state in a manner that uplifts people from poverty and addresses infrastructural deficit.

The Governor hailed the House of Assembly for the thorough examination of the budget proposal and for its speedy passage, recalling how he had told some members of the executive that the lawmakers were empowered to make input into the budget, “because they are the direct representatives of the people.”

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In the assented budget, the capital expenditure was reviewed to 55 percent, up from 53 percent the governor had presented on December 18, 2019. The parliament also cut the recurrent expenditure to 44 percent, further down from 47 percent in the original copy. Overall, the budget increased by N476milion in favour of capital expenditure.

Apart from various budgets which he said would drive socio-economic and infrastructural growth, AbdulRazaq said provisions were deliberately made for poverty eradication

He praised the lawmakers for approving the Social Investment Programme Bill which he had since assented and for making further provisions for it in the 2020 budget “for the benefit of the poorest of the poor in our society.”