Towards the end of the 2nd quarter of 2013, the House of Representatives made allusions to the poor implementation of the 2013 budget by the FG. As the percentage implementation been posted by the House was rebuffed by the Finance minister and co-ordinating minister of the economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. I believe issues like this one should form the major concern of every Nigerian, especially the everyday people on the street who have little or nothing to gain directly from the politicking of the day but rather the provision of life support amenities.

Although the budgets include both the recurrent and the capital expenditure, meaning that if we have a 70% recurrent and 30% capital budget, it can be safely said that the budget was 70% implemented if all salaries, emoluments and debt servicing were implemented to the last, even without a single fraction of the capital expenditure. Seventy percent might appear impressive, but it's the little 30% capital portion that brings the most benefits to those citizens who are not salaried by the government.

So, the question now is, what percentage of the federal, state, and local governments' budgets (on the capital flange) was implemented for 2013?

Do Nigerians even the know the budget of the state they're resident in or come from?

We can all produce the FG 2013 Appropriation Act, can we look into it more critically and dispassionately again and identify for ourselves the true level of implementation? If you have the budget of the state where you're in, can you show us how much of it has been implemented for the people? This, i think should form the real debates of our people.

God Bless Nigeria And Nigerians.

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, presented a N4.9tn budget to the National Assembly for the 2013 fiscal year.

In the estimates titled, budget of “fiscal consolidation with inclusive growth,” Education, Defence and Police were allocated the highest share of N1.095trn

A breakdown of the N1.095trn shows the Education sector getting N426.53bn; Defence, N348.91bn, and Police, N319.65bn.

Missing copiously from the budget was a provision for fuel subsidy, an indication perhaps that government may fully remove the subsidy in 2013.

The N4.92trn proposed for 2013 is five per cent more than the N4.7trn budgeted in 2012.

The 2013 proposals also has the Health sector getting N279.23bn as allocation; Works, N183.5bn; Agriculture and Rural Development, N81.41bn; and Power, N74.26bn.

The funding of the power and gas sector, the President said, would be complemented with a proposed infrastructure Euro Bond of about $1bn (about N160bn) in order to complete the gas pipelines and other infrastructure investments.

According to the President, the projected GDP growth rate for 2013 is 6.5 per cent, different from the 6.85 per cent it earlier proposed in the MTEF.

Out of the aggregate expenditure of N4.92trn, Jonathan said that N2.41trn was earmarked for recurrent expenditure and N1.5trn for capital projects. The sum of N380.02bn was also allocated to Statutory Transfers and N591.76bn for Debt Service.

RIVERS APPROVED 2013 APPROPRIATION ACT


Rivers State House of Assembly has passed the 2013 Appropriation Bill into Law. Speaking on the floor of the House, the Speaker Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Amachree said, the 2013 appropriation Bill is without an additional budgetary allocation to all the Ministries, Agencies and Government Parastatals. A total of N490.320 billion naira was passed as the budget for 2013 financial year as presented by the Governor, the breakdown shows that the 2013 budget capital expenditure is N314.290 billion naira as against N176.01 billion naira for recurrent expenditure.

The proposed expenditure showed an increase of 54.06 per cent in recurrent expenditure and a decline of 2.92 per cent for capital expenditure when compared to the 2012 budget. However, the capital expenditure projection for 2013 is 64.10 per cent of the total budget while the recurrent expenditure is 35.90 per cent of the budget. The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Daniel Amachree who presided over the plenary session of the House, thanked the appropriation committee and pleaded with the committee to implement the budget as passed by the House.

IMO STATE APPROVED 2013 APPROPRIATION ACT

LEGISREPORTS NG- Members of the Imo State House of Assembly have passed a budget of N194,142,120,869 (One hundred ninety- four billion, one hundred and forty –two million, one hundred and twenty thousand, eight- hundred and sixty- nine naira) only for the 2013 fiscal year.

The lawmakers passed the budget on Thursday in a special session after receiving and deliberating on the report of the House Committee on Budget and Appropriation headed by Hon. Eudora Igwe (Ideato North constituency).

In a breakdown, Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Benjamin Uwajimogu said the total amount included Consolidated Revenue Fund charges of N19.8 billion.

Governor Rochas Okorocha had presented a proposal of N195,743,684,031 to the lawmakers on December 3, 2012 with 32 per cent allocated to recurrent expenditure while 67.53 per cent was for capital expenditure.

EKITI STATE

GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has presented a budget proposal of N93,616,830. 01 billion for year 2013 to the House of Assembly.

The “Budget of Empowerment and Consolidation” has a proposed recurrent expenditure of N46,416,141,231 representing 49.6 per cent of the total budget estimate, while capital expenditure is N47,200,688,770, representing 50.4 per cent.

Presenting the Appropriation bill, Fayemi said infrastructure would gulp 21.2 per cent of the total budget, education 17.2 per cent and health sector. 10.7 per cent. Agriculture sector would get three per cent, industry 3.3 per cent; tourism 1.7 per cent, while women empowerment, gender and sports would get 2.3 per cent.

In a further analysis, Fayemi stated that N9.9 billion would be expended on road projects even as he said that three divisional headquarters in the state- Ikere, Ikole and Ijero would have their township roads reconstructed and get street lights as part of government’s urban renewal plan.

According to a statement, the budget would also focus on water projects with N2.4 bilion budgeted for the rehabilitation of all major dams, while N2.163 was budgeted for the rehabilitation of all the General Hospitals and special Comprehensive Health Centres and furnishing of same.

LAGOS STATE

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented a budget proposal of N497.277 billion for the 2013 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.

The budget represents a slight increase of 1.08 per cent over that of 2012 which was N485.3 billion.

Fashola assured that his administration would focus more on the life threatening environmental risks and security challenges in the state.

A summary of the budget shows that: recurrent expenditure gulps N228.913bn, capital expenditure takes N268.364bn, capital receipts, N22.912bn while the component of the total overhead costs is N139.173bn.

According to the budget proposal, the capital to recurrent ratio will be 54:46 for 2013 as against 53:47 in 2012.

Sectoral allocation provided in the budget includes: General Public Service, N114.076bn (22.94 per cent); Public Order and Safety,N18.799 -(3.78 per cent); Economic Affairs N156.273 (31.43per cent); Environmental Protection, N44.131bn (8.87 per cent); Housing and Community Amenities-N46.149bn (9.28 per cent ); Health N42.498bn 8.55 (per cent);Recreation, Culture and Religion N5.749bn (1.16 per cent); Education, N64.343bn (12.94 per cent); Social Protection N3.259bn (0.66per cent); Contingency N2.000bn(.44 per cent).

Presenting the budget at a well attended event, Fashola promised that his administration would intensify efforts at improving education, health and power sectors, adding that attention would also be given to roads, water and rural development.

He stressed that despite the numerous challenges confronting the state, the budget will seek to promote cooperation with the local and Federal Government on road rehabilitation and power sector reforms.

“At the end of the 3rd Quarter Budget presentation, we achieved an aggregate budget implementation performance of 72 per cent for the period January to September 2012.”

In his response, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, on behalf of members, said the house would responsibly accord the budget proposal prompt and comprehensive attention and would scrutinise it with eagle eyes.

The Speaker, who noted that the presentation of the budget is significant because the lives and destinies of almost 20 million residents are hinged on the bill.

According to him, it is not surprising that the expectations of the people are high, they want to to know what is in the budget for them, so that they can make plans and projections for the coming year.

Highlighting some challenges which require urgent attention, he emphatically mentioned the deplorable state of roads in spite of the huge investment and painstaking efforts the administration has made.

KANO STATE

Kano budgets N235.3bn for 2013

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2012-12-25 11:01
Kano – Gov. Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano State on Monday presented a budget of N235.3 billion to the state House of Assembly for the 2013 fiscal year.

Presenting the budget to the legislature, Kwankwaso said N59.7 billion was proposed for recurrent expenditure, while N175.5 billion was for capital projects.

“The recurrent expenditure represents 25 per cent of the total budget ,while the capital expenditure represents 75 per cent.

“The 2013 budget is higher than the 2012 budget by N13.6 billion, which represents six per cent increase,” he said.

The governor explained that the recurrent expenditure consisted of N2.2 billion for consolidated revenue charges, N35.8 billion for personnel costs and N21.7 billion for overhead cost.

He said infrastructure got the lion’s share of N62.4 billion of the budget, while Works and Housing was allocated N41.8 billion.

According to him, education follows on the priority list with an allocation of N24.1 billion.

The governor said that N16 billion was set aside for basic and secondary education with N8.1 billion for higher education.

He said the budget, tagged ‘Budget of Economic Consolidation and Fiscal Discipline’, was designed to ensure total infrastructure development.

Kwankwaso also pledged to consolidate his effort on judicious use of public funds in order to improve the living standard of the people, especially commoners.

Receiving the budget, the Speaker of the House, Alhaji Gambo Sallau, pledged the commitment of the legislature to analyse the document thoroughly with a view to ensuring that it impacted directly on the lives of the citizens.

Sallau pledged speedy passage and close monitoring of the implementation of the budget by the lawmakers.Kano, Dec. 24, 2012 (NAN) Gov. Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano State on Monday presented a budget of N235.3 billion to the state House of Assembly for the 2013 fiscal year.

Presenting the budget to the legislature, Kwankwaso said N59.7 billion was proposed for recurrent expenditure, while N175.5 billion was for capital projects.

“The recurrent expenditure represents 25 per cent of the total budget ,while the capital expenditure represents 75 per cent.

“The 2013 budget is higher than the 2012 budget by N13.6 billion, which represents six per cent increase,” he said.

The governor explained that the recurrent expenditure consisted of N2.2 billion for consolidated revenue charges, N35.8 billion for personnel costs and N21.7 billion for overhead cost.

He said infrastructure got the lion’s share of N62.4 billion of the budget, while Works and Housing was allocated N41.8 billion.

According to him, education follows on the priority list with an allocation of N24.1 billion.

The governor said that N16 billion was set aside for basic and secondary education with N8.1 billion for higher education.

He said the budget, tagged ‘Budget of Economic Consolidation and Fiscal Discipline’, was designed to ensure total infrastructure development.

Kwankwaso also pledged to consolidate his effort on judicious use of public funds in order to improve the living standard of the people, especially commoners.

Receiving the budget, the Speaker of the House, Alhaji Gambo Sallau, pledged the commitment of the legislature to analyse the document thoroughly with a view to ensuring that it impacted directly on the lives of the citizens.

Sallau pledged speedy passage and close monitoring of the implementation of the budget by the lawmakers.

AKWA IBOM STATE

Barring any adjustment by the State House of Assembly, Akwa Ibom State is to spend N459.305 billion in the 2013 fiscal year. This amount, which was presented to the State House of Assembly yesterday by Governor Godswill Akpabio, is, however, less than the 2012 revised appropriation which was N533.113 billion.

Akpabio told the legislators that the budget tagged: Budget of Industrialization and Consolidation, was predicated on oil benchmark of $75 per barrel at a production rate of 2.5 million barrels per day. The state is rated at the moment as the highest producer of crude oil in the country though most of its oil, including the 76 oil wells recently awarded to it by the Supreme Court, arising from litigation by the neighbouring Cross River State, come from offshore installations.

Only N118.79 billion of the budget is allocated to recurrent expenditure, while the remaining N304.515 billion is for capital projects and programmes, thus representing a recurrent-capital ratio of 1:3. Apparently trying to explain why there was no industrialization in 2012 which budget was tagged: Budget of Industrialization, the governor said; “We added industrialization because the industrialization projects that we enunciated in the 2012 budget will be pursued and consolidated to give the state an industrial boost, in addition, focus will be on completion of all ongoing projects across the state.”

He said the policy trust of the budget which economic development sector would take the lion share of N174.39 billion or 51 per cent of capital expenditure, would include improvement of standard of living of the people, development and implement action of strategic plans for the complete industrialization of the states, and the enhancement of employment generating capacity; and, optimization of sources of the key economic drivers, particularly agriculture and small-scale and medium-scale enterprises for real sector growth.

Akpabio also said the stare intended to develop strong sectoral linkages in the development processes, health, housing, housing, education, transport and sports, and would continue to intervene through the use of direct labour projects to sustain the pace of socio-economic transformation of the rural communities, satellite towns and the state capital.

While appealing to the legislature to give approval to the budget, the governor promised to faithfully implement it to the general benefit and happiness of the people “ as it is our profound desire to alleviate poverty, create wealth, generate employment, stimulate agricultural and industrial development and maximize the general wellbeing of all.”

The speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Sam Iko, while welcoming the governor to the House, commended him for the uncommon performance he had so far exhibited in the management of the affairs of the state. Ikon said Akpabio’s performance has not only made the people of the state proud but had also made the job of the members easier in dealing with their respective constituencies.

ENUGWU STATE

THE Enugu State Government yesterday proposed estimated budget N83 billion for the 2013 fiscal year, with works and infrastructure receiving the highest allocation.

The budget, an increase of 8 percent from last year’s budget of N76 billion, is made up of N45 billion recurrent expenditure representing 55 per cent of the budget and N37 billion capital expenditure representing 45 per cent of the budget.

Presenting the draft budget to the Enugu State House of Assembly for approval yesterday, Acting Governor of Enugu State, Sunday Onyebuchi, said it would help the administration complete on going projects, especially several capital projects initiated by the administration for the development of the state.

Christened budget of sustainability, Onyebuchi said the administration through the budget shall consolidate past achievements.

He said that the focus of the government would revolve around completing on going projects and peoples driven development programmes in line with government’s four point agenda.

Justifying the allocation of N11.35 billion on works and infrastructure as the highest in the budget, Onyebuchi stated that government would complete on going urban roads in Enugu and Nsukka as well as other rural roads, including Nara-Isiogbo, Ugwuogo Nike-Opi junction, Amaechi-Amodu-Umueze, Ugwuogo-Neke-Ikem, Amaetiti-Achi-Inyi-Awlaw, 9th Mile-Iwollo-Umulokpa, 9th Mile-Nachi-Ugwuoba and Nguru-Ede Oballa-Eha Alumona.

“Within the 2013 fiscal year, work will also continue and be completed on Eke-Ebe-Egede-Akpakume Nze-Nkpologu, Akpasha-Ozalla-Agbogugu- Ihe-Owelli-Awgu as well as Nsukka-Ibagwa-Ogrute-Aji-Ette and Nenwe-Oduma-Okpanku-Mpu-Ndeabor roads”, he said.

He listed other new roads earmarked for completion within the year to include Iheaka-Ibagwa-Itchi-Unadu-Alor Agu, Agbani-Mbogodo-Ikuokpara, Nenwe-Oduma-Mpu, Umulokpa-Adaba-Ukpata-Uvuru-Nkpologu, Adani-Adarice (Enugu Songhai Farm, Adani), Udi-Amokwe-Obeleagu Umana-Imezi Owa-Mgbagbu Owa, Milken Hill-Ngwo and Imilike-Ezimo Uno-Imilike Agu-Ogboduaba-Obollo Etiti-Obollo Afor among others.

Works and Infrastructure was followed by education, which got N4.47 billion and agriculture, which was allocated N1.09 billion

KWARA STATE

GOVERNOR Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has presented a budget proposal of N94.4 billion for the 2013 fiscal year to the state’s House of Assembly. It represented a 10 per cent increase over last year’s projection of N85.1b.

Titled: “Sustained Prosperity”, Ahmed stressed that the budget was designed to boost infrastructure, accelerate agro-led wealth creation, create jobs and sustain the state’s development. It was also aimed at reducing dependence on federally-allocated revenue and attract foreign and domestic investments into the state.

Despite the challenges of limited financial resources, Ahmed stated, his administration is determined “to provide good governance to the people through a systematic focus on our interlinked priority areas.”



“Our resources may be limited but our resolve to overcome these challenges and provide good governance for the benefit of the people is boundless”, Ahmed reiterated in his second budget speech as governor.

The sectoral breakdown showed that roads continued to receive priority in capital expenditure with N7.9b, closely followed by Education and Human Capital Development with N7.6b with Tertiary Education, Science and Technology and Agriculture Development each receiving N4.3b and Health allocated N3.3b. The proposed capital expenditure on Water Supply is N1.9b, Sport and Youth Development took N1.4b and N1.2b was allocated to Energy. Others are Housing and Urban Development-N249m, Commerce and Cooperatives-N181m, Information and Communication, N421m, Environment and Forestry-N799m, Social Welfare Culture and Tourism-N110m.

NIGER STATE

The Chief Servant and Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has presented a N83.8 Billion budget for the 2013 fiscal year before the state’s House of Assembly, representing a 9.27 per cent lower than that of 2012.

Speaking at the occasion, Governor Aliyu disclosed that the 2013 estimate, which is made up of N71.73 Billion recurrent revenue and capital receipts of N12.065 Billion, was painstakingly and realistically prepared to entrench a culture of fiscal discipline and avoid mistakes of the past.

He said the recurrent revenue expected to come from the Statutory Allocation was N53.72 billion, Value-Added Tax-N8.6 Billion, SURE-P-N2.81 as well as the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N6.61 Billion.

The projected recurrent expenditure including personnel, overhead cost and Consolidated Fund Charges (CFC) is pegged at N46.743 Billion while the capital expenditure estimates for the year 2013 stood at N37.054 Billion.

Governor Aliyu announced the focus and key objectives of the 2013 projection to include; completion of on-going projects, preservation of peace and security, expansion of IGR, food security and poverty alleviation as well as encouraging the private sector participation in the development of the state.

Highlight of the budget indicates that the economic sector, which is the driver to propel the attainment of Vision 3:2020 got the largest share of N11.330 Billion, followed by the social sector with N10.945 Billion. The Administrative sector has N10.087 Billion; Regional sector got N4.641 Billion while Science and Technology sector was allocated N50 Million.

In his address, Speaker of the State Assembly, Barrister Adamu Usman emphasized the importance of budgeting ineffective governance adding that any meaningful development must essentially begin with planning.

The Speaker expressed the need for MDA’S to fast track their budget implementation procedures, remove red-tapism where necessary and deploy a sense of urgency for the sake of the people who are daily yearning to see the rapid transformation of the state into being one of the most developed in the country.

While hoping that the 2013 budget would seek to improve and consolidate government’s achievement in areas of socio- economic needs, Barr. Usman assured that the House would study the provisions of the 2013 budget proposal meticulously in order to ensure its speedy passage.

He pledged the Assembly’s continuous cooperation with the Executive to ensure that the provisions of the 2013 budget were achieved adding that the House would do everything within its constitutional mandate to promote mechanism that would aid the successful implementation of the budget.

BORNO STATE

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State presented a budget of N184 billion for 2013 to the state legislature for approval on Thursday.

Shettima said at the presentation that N132 billion of the amount would be for capital expenditure, while N52 billion was for recurrent votes.

He said the budget was aimed at kick-starting the economy of the state.

“Mr Speaker, honourable members, our budget is aimed at kick-starting the recovery, growth and development of all segments of the society.

“We shall do this through a conscious, scientific and consultative approach to create avenues for empowering our rural populace with cottage
industries, among others,” he said.

The highest allocation of N36 billion was for the Ministry of Works and Transport, while the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education received N21 billion and N13 billion respectively to be second and third.

Others were Ministry of Health, N14 billion, Ministry of Agriculture, N9 billion, and Ministry of Sports, N3 billion.

The governor thanked the state assembly for its numerous collaborations with the executive toward the development of the state.

Shettima appealed for a speedy passage of the budget to enable the government to begin its implementation in earnest.

Responding, the Speaker, Abdulkarim Lawan, gave an assurance on quick passage of the budget by the assembly.

BAUCHI STATE

Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has presented an appropriation bill of N137, 342, 108, 137 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval as the 2013 budget.

Making the presentation yesterday, the governor explained that the sum was for both capital and recurrent services during the new fiscal year: N63, 348, 292, 151 for recurrent expenditure and N73, 993, 816, 176 billion for capital spending.

He said that the budget expected to be funded from the statutory allocation and internal revenues respectively would be allocate more to the key ministries of works and transport, education, agriculture, health, water and poverty alleviation.

Yuguda stated that the government would in the 2013 fiscal year concentrate on the completion of ongoing projects such as the Bauchi State International airport, roads, renovation of schools and hospitals. He also stressed that new projects and programmes would be embarked upon only where they become absolutely necessary and the resultant effect would have direct bearing on the economy and lives of the people of the state.

The breakdown of the Governor’s budget shows that the ministry of works and transport got the biggest amount of N6, 199, 759, 376, followed by the office of the Secretary to the State Government [SSG] that has N5, 601, 000, 000 and education ministry which was allocated the sum of N5, 66,347,686.

Responding, the speaker of the Assembly, Hon Yahaya Miya, assured the governor that the lawmakers would deliberate on the proposed budget and ensure its speedy passage into law.

The speaker, however, said that all Ministry and Departments must come before the House to depend their allocation so as to ensure judicious utilisation of public funds.