Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has proposed a N245 billion appropriation bill for the 2023 fiscal year with the education sector getting the highest allocation.
The governor, who tagged the budget proposal as “Budget of consolidation and prosperity 2”, said the education sector has been allocated N62bn representing 27 per cent of budget size, which is above the 25 per cent target set by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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He revealed that capital expenditure will gulp N144bn in the budget representing 59 per cent while recurrent expenditure was pegged at N100.9 billion (representing 41 per cent) with payment of salaries and allowances to civil servants and political appointees gulping N71bn while payment of overhead and other recurrent expenditures were pegged at N29.5bn.
In the sectoral allocations, the health sector is expected to get N39.1bn for projects and programmes with N500m dedicated for the completion of the ongoing cancer centre project, among others.
In the education sector which got N62 billion; N2.3bn has been set aside for boarding school feeding; N2.4bn for free education; N2bn for girl-child education; and N22.3bn for capital projects and programmes in tertiary institutions.
Responding, Speaker of the state assembly, Hamisu Chidari, assured that the House will immediately swing to action to pass the budget in good time to help the state keep to its January to December budget circle, adding that this will be done without compromising on processes.
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