The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved the sum of N123.3 billion as the 2025 budget for the 23 local government councils in the state.
The house made the approval after the Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations and Implementation, Yunusa Shehu, presented a report on a Bill for a Law to make Appropriations Funds for the local government councils.
The local governments’ chairmen had participated in a budget defence exercise recently in which they proposed a total budget of N115.9 billion.
This entails N64.4 billion for recurrent provision,N45.2 billion for personnel cost, N20.2 billion overhead cost and N50.5 billion for capital expenditures.
The budget was however amended by the committee after a critical study and harmonisation.
Mr Shehu stated that the proposed budget was amended and increased by the sum of N7.42 billion, making a total of N123.3 billion.
He explained that N67.9 billion was earmarked for recurrent provision, N46.1billion for personnel cost, N21.8 as overhead cost and N55.4 for capital provision.
Mr Shehu said, “We had a budget defence in which we found out that there are LGAs that needed adjustment for their budget size.
“After going through it ,we sat down as a committee with representative of the ministry to harmonise the budget and come out with a figure that will be applicable for the 23 LGAs.”
He explained that the recurrent provision was 60 per cent while capital was 40 per cent.
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