Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku has disclosed that the 2021 budget would improve Government’s deliveries in key areas like infrastructure, education, healthcare, water supply, agriculture and job creation in the state.
Ishaku, who stated this recently while signing the state 2021 Appropriation Bill into law, said with the passage of the budget, government was ready to hit the ground running with its implementation.
He maintained that government would be strict to ensure efficiency in spending and accountability.
He said that in order to achieve such control, mechanisms for effective monitoring of ministries, departments and agencies will be strictly enforced.
According to him, details of the Bill as approved by the state assembly showed that the government would be spending 141, 625,435,961.80(One Forty-One billion, Six Hundred and Twenty-Five Million, Four Hundred and Thirty-five Thousand,Nine Hundred and Sixty-one Naira, Eighty Kobo.
“The Government had earlier proposed N139,460,435,961.80 Kobo (One hundred and thirty-nine billion, four hundred and sixty million, four hundred and thirty-five thousand, nine hundred and sixty-one eighty Kobo” he said.
He commended members of the state House of Assembly for passing the budget without delay and noted that with this development ” the yearly norm of signing annual and provisional warrants for Government services to subsist at a level not exceeding the level of those services prevailing in the previous financial year, pending the passage of the appropriation Bill, will no longer be an issue.
On his part, speaker of the Taraba state House of Assembly, Rt. Dr Joseph Albasu Kunini, said with the presentation of the Budget Bill for signing, the House had kept its promise made on December 4, 2020 when it was presented to the House to expedite action in its consideration.
