Delta Exco approves N66bn supplementary budget

Delta State Executive Council has approved the 2021 supplementary budget draft of N66 billion.

The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, disclosed this on Thursday evening while briefing newsmen after the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at Government House, Asaba.

He stated that Exco also considered key areas in the 2022 appropriation bill and called on MDAs to reorder their estimates in line with critical focus of the proposed budget.

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“Today at Exco we considered the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of the state and we are proposing N66 billion to augment the 2021 budget.

“Now that it has been adopted we will proceed to take it to the State House of Assembly for appropriation.

“We discussed certain key areas of the 2022 budget with a view to coming up with priorities and so MDAs were asked to identify a number of the key areas.

“We are hoping that in a not too distant time we will come up with the full 2022 budget to be presented to the House,” Aniagwu added.

Aniagwu also said Exco commenced a case-by-case consideration of the report of the judicial panel of enquiry on police brutality in the state.

He said Exco had gone halfway with the consideration and would be completed in the next meeting.

He added that Exco also approved N946m counterpart funding for 2021 UBEC intervention to address critical educational infrastructure in the state.

On his part, Commissioner for Economic Planning, Dr Barry Pere-Gbe said the Supplementary appropriation was in line with Section 151(4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.