The Governor of Zamfara state, Dauda Lawal has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N426 billion into law.
The budget tagged Budget of Rescue’ was passed by the Zamfara State House of Assembly over the weekend as Security, Health, Agriculture, Education among others were the priorities in the budget.
Governor Dauda Lawal had on the 21st December Presented N423,523,730,000.00 to the state house of assembly for the 2024 fiscal year for consideration and passage.
The 2024 budget has N118,358,079,515.00 as recurrent expenditure while N308,205,591,485.00 for capital expenditure.
Security, Economy, Law and Justice Sector, Agriculture, Health, Education, Infrastructure and urban Development leads the 2024 budget for Zamfara state.
Governor Dauda Lawal while signing the the spending plan tagged rescue budget into law says it will enhance domestic and foreign investments, productivity, and ease of doing business in the state.
The budget according to Governor Lawal has allocated sufficient funds for social intervention programs to mitigate the impact of the current economic difficulties and insecurity.
The programs include micro-credit disbursement to Small and Medium Enterprises, the FADAMA Program for food security, Skills acquisition, and other initiatives to reduce poverty among its people and tackle youth restiveness.
