Yuguda Presents N127bn Budget For 2015

Governor Isa Yuguda of
Bauchi State has presented N127.89 billion as the 2015 budget to the State House of Assembly.
The 2014 budget for the state was N133.7 billion.
Presenting the budget, Yuguda said that the huge percentage of the budget would be for the payment of salaries, wages, pension and gratuity.
He said that the budget would give priority to health, agriculture, water resources, poverty eradication, women and youth empowerments as well as ongoing projects.
According to him, the recurrent expenditure is N62.80 billion while the capital expenditure is N65.08 billion.
Yuguda said the Bauchi State International Airport was executed with the 2014 budget while the 300 capacity state specialist hospital would soon be completed.
Other projects executed with the 2014 budget include 60 beds capacity hospital in Bununu and newly constructed primary health centers across the state and projects in other sectors.
The governor said the state was the least borrowing state.