Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue on Tuesday, presented the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N163.9 billion to the Benue House of Assembly.

Ortom made the presentation on the floor of the house during plenary.

The governor said that the Appropriation Bill was christened: “Budget of Rural Transformation’’, stressing that it should be considered a collective vision of a new Benue.

He said that out of the total sum, recurrent expenditure was N66.348 billion, while capital expenditure stood at N97.562 billion.

The governor said that recurrent expenditure constituted 40 per cent of the entire budget, while capital expenditure constituted 60 per cent.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2016 Appropriation Bill was N150.7 billion.

He listed the sources of revenue in which the state hoped to realise the funds from Federal Allocation, Tax, Non-Tax, Aids from donors, Domestic Borrowing among others.

He said that in order to make judicious use of the state funds, he had reduced his entitlements and that of his deputy.

‘`I have also reduced overseas travels by all public office holders,’’ he said.

The Speaker, Mr Terkimbi Ikyange, commended the governor for timely submission of the budget despite several hurdles.

Ikyange urged the governor to overhaul the budget process of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), which is usually considered by them as a mere annual ritual.

He assured that as soon as the legislators come back from the Christmas break, they would swing into action in order to get the budget passed speedily. (NAN)

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/12/gov-ortom-presents-n1639bn-2017-budget.html

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The person below me should control his blood pressure.

On the matter, Not bad, kudos to the Governor. and he should ensure they are well implemented when passed.


Meanwhile, FTC. And I dedicate this to all the Niger-Deltan out there.

ftc

It is budget time , again.

nice one.

Great

Good for him. Meanwhile some governors are ruining their image publicly

The budget of lagos state can conviniently bankroll like 10 states budget in NG. Some of those states really hv to be dwndraged to a municipal of the bigger states (sarcasm ni ooo).

But what on earth would make benue of all states demand over 160 billion..... What are they generating for the federation sef. If not rape, killings, poisoning and abnormal otukpo news... Anyway y won't they demand such hilarious amount when we have a dullard who knws only how to breast feed his cows ruling us

Where will Ortom get this money from?



Benue is always blessed with useless governors

Mtcheew! Governor without concrete ideas just doing trial and error method of governance with Benue people..

hmm

Edo state with all the 13percents they receive can only manage to present N150bn budget

Benue is trying shaa

I just dey blaze front page

Fios is the way.

Haven't seen Osun state budget faaa

Where is Rivers state 2016 budget? Talk less of 2017 budget

Armstrong34:
But what on earth would make benue of all states demand over 160 billion..... What are they generating for the federation sef. If not rape, killings, poisoning and abnormal otukpo news... Anyway y won't they demand such hilarious amount when we have a dullard who knws only how to breast feed his cows ruling us

what's paining you really?!

Mujaheeeden:
Where will Ortom get this money from?


Benue is always blessed with useless governors

is that all you can say??

If you loots Nigerians monies again, Nigerians will do the probing by themselves in 2019 at the polls.
No More Second Tenure For Unperforms Politicians(FG-LG)

Lubbish

At least, ORTORM's appropriation is better of than what we use to experience. This is an enhancement on suswam's 60 billion he used to bring out! I just hope the Rural development motive is attained and not the usual Urban-rural sharing we used to observe.

Armstrong34:
But what on earth would make benue of all states demand over 160 billion..... What are they generating for the federation sef. If not rape, killings, poisoning and abnormal otukpo news... Anyway y won't they demand such hilarious amount when we have a dullard who knws only how to breast feed his cows ruling us

what dha Bleep is you saying?

Armstrong34:
But what on earth would make benue of all states demand over 160 billion..... What are they generating for the federation sef. If not rape, killings, poisoning and abnormal otukpo news... Anyway y won't they demand such hilarious amount when we have a dullard who knws only how to breast feed his cows ruling us

You are obviously ignorant of the subject.

Armstrong34:
But what on earth would make benue of all states demand over 160 billion..... What are they generating for the federation sef. If not rape, killings, poisoning and abnormal otukpo news... Anyway y won't they demand such hilarious amount when we have a dullard who knws only how to breast feed his cows ruling us

jesus Christ So You Can Be So So Stupid, Who Is Demanding Anything From Federal Government? This Budget Is For Benue And Benue Alone, Buhari Has Nothing To Do With The Budget. But Why Can't You People Say Say Something Better Rather Than Insulting Your Leaders?