Gombe Assembly Passes N107.7bn 2014 Budget

The Gombe State House of
Assembly has passed the state’s N107.7 billion Appropriation Bill for 2014.
The budget was raised by the lawmakers from N107.4 billion as submitted to them by Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo on December  28, 2013.
This is contained in a statement issued by the legislature’s Chief Information Officer, Alhaji Abubakar Umar, and made available to newsmen in Gombe.
The statement explained that the increase stemmed from consideration given to some areas that were not “properly captured” in the bill.
According to it, Gombe Housing Corporation was omitted, new boarding secondary school at Boltongo, and three new roads from Ngajin Bauchi to Abuja-Jauro and Gambo were not properly captured.
“In view of these, a lot of adjustments were made.
“It brought about a shift in the budget size from N107.453billion to N107.79billion, giving a difference of N345.07million’’, said the statement.
It added that capital expenditure of N64.1 billion took the higher share of the budget while recurrent expenditure was N50.8 billion.
The statement said the Speaker of the Assembly, Alhaji Inuwa Garba, commended the lawmakers, especially the members of the appropriation Committee, for a diligent scrutiny of the bill.
The speaker was quoted as calling on ministries, departments and agencies to ensure effective implementation of the budget in order to deliver dividends of democracy to the people.