The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has announced that the state government will soon review the 2020 budget by 30 percent downward in order to complete ongoing projects.
The governor, who made the statement at an interactive session with journalists in Kano on Monday, said the decision followed the decline in Internally Generated Revenue, IGR.
According to the governor, the declined necessitated the need on the government to be prudent on its expenditure in order to complete meaningful projects before the end of his second tenure.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of financial challenges. We are hopeful of completing our projects before the end of our tenure. The decline of IGR has made us become prudent on our expenditure.
“We have to be smart in the way we spend money because we want to complete our projects, that is why we are soon taking our 2020 budget to the House of Assembly for review.
“We are working to review the budget by 30% cut because we want to achieve our aim of project completion,” he said.
