Ogun Assembly okays N703bn budget for 2024

The Ogun State House of Assembly has passed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N703bn.

Recall that the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, on November 30, presented the budget proposal to the assembly, pleading for speedy passage.

Various government Ministries, Departments and Agencies had appeared before the committees of the House of Assembly to defend the amounts allocated to them.

At its sitting on Thursday, the assembly passed the bill, with a review in the capital and recurrent expenditures as well as projected revenue of 18 MDAs.

The Bill was titled: ‘No. 011/OG/2023- “A Bill for a Law to authorise the issue and Appropriation of the sum of N703bn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for  the Services of Ogun State Government of Nigeria for the Financial Year Ending Thirty-First day of December Two Thousand and Twenty-Four’.

The passage of the bill followed the presentation of the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation by its Chairman, Musefiu Lamidi, who subsequently moved the motion for its adoption, seconded by Damilola Soneye and supported by the whole house through a voice vote.

Consequently, the bill was later read and adopted clause-by-clause by the Committee of Supply led by the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, during a plenary held at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The Speaker directed that the clean copy of the bill be transmitted to the state governor for his assent, “so that the people of the state would begin to enjoy more democratic dividends from the first day of the next fiscal year.”