The Plateau government on Tuesday said that it would spend N119.8 billion into capital projects this fiscal year.
A breakdown of the budget expenditure presented by Rauta Dakok, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, showed that N95.6 billion would go into recurrent expenditure out of N215.8 billion.
“This budget is to further consolidate on Plateau’s growth,’’ Dakok declared at the budget breakdown presentation in Jos.
According to her 55.61 per cent of the budget is allocated to capital projects to ensure the completion of ongoing projects and promote security.
She said that other sectors like education, health, water supply, agriculture, industries and sanitation would also receive adequate attention.
“In view of the numerous uncompleted projects spread across the state by the last administration, the focus of this budget will be to complete them and put them to use,’’ she said.
The Permanent Secretary said that the recurrent expenditure would seek to boost service to the public by raising staff morale.
Dakok appealed for understanding over the late breakdown of the budget, and blamed the last administration for not completing the processes before the inauguration of the current government.
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