Cross River commissioners to begin defense of N498bn budget for 2025
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By Akpan David, Calabar
Commissioners and other sectoral heads in Cross River State will soon begin the defense of the N498 Billion budget for 2025.
The state governor, Prince Bassey Edet Otu presented the budget Tuesday before the state House of Assembly. The budget is tagged “Budget of sustainable growth.”
Speaker of the state assembly, Elvert Ayambem said the commissioners will appear before the assembly from next week to speak about their budget to enable them see how to deliberate on them before passing the appropriation bill into law.
The governor had said that his government consulted widely across the three Senatorial Districts of the State before arriving at the budget.
Otu said, “We have proposed a total budget size of N498b (Four Hundred and Ninety-Eight Billion Naira) only.
“The sum of N328 Billion representing about 66% of the total budget size is allocated to Capital Expenditure;while the Recurrent Expenditure has N170B representing about 34% of the total Budget size.”
Out of this, Infrastructure was allocated the largest share of over N100 Billion, and education came up second highest with over N81 billion, while health sector came up third position with N25b..
Other sectors including Judiciary which got N20b, House of Assembly N18b,
Aviation N16b, Special Duties/Intergovernmental Affairs, N15billion.
Others were Power, N14b, Agriculture N11b, Tourism N5b, Science, Technology and Innovation N4.7b, Women Affairs, N3.7b, Information N3b.
The government allocated
N181.6 billion for unexplained items.
Lawmakers applauded the governor and assured that they will cooperate to implement the budget.
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