By Dipo Olowookere
The budget estimate for the 2019 fiscal year presented last year by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has been passed by the Kano State House of Assembly.
The appropriation bill was passed by the parliament on Monday after the adoption of the House Committee on Appropriations report presented by its Chairman, Mr Tasiu Panisau.
On November 14, Mr Ganduje presented to the state assembly a budget proposal of over N219.6 billion for the 2019 fiscal year.
However, Mr Panisau said the committee recommended for the increase of the proposed budget by over N315 million in order to make more funds available to education, health, information, agriculture, works and water resources and rural development.
He said efforts were made to scrutinise the budget, adding that the “committee recommended for the discharge of oversight functions by committees, especially on the implementation of the budget should be pursued.”
“This recommendation will ensure effective delivery of government services for the benefit of the general public in the state,” he added. Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Mr Kabiru Rurum, who passed the budget into law, said the appropriation bill had the input of the public during the recent public hearing before it was approved.
