Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has called on stakeholders across the state to make inputs into the 2025 budget proposal before the document is sent to the House of Assembly for deliberations.

Sani said this at a town hall meeting held at Hotel Seventeen in Kaduna on Friday, November 29, 2024.

A draft 2025 budget proposal of N790.43 billion was presented at the meeting

Speaking at the event, the governor said: “2025 shall be devoted to the consolidation of the progress so far made in opening up the rural areas through massive infrastructural development.

“That is why we tagged our proposed 2025 Budget ‘Sustaining Rural Transformation and Inclusive Development’.

“We are also targeting the areas inhabited by the urban poor. Every citizen deserves to live a better life.”

Sani said his administration has recorded remarkable achievements in key sectors in the last 18 months and he listed improved security, infrastructural development, and human capital development.

He stated that there has been an improvement in the education sector, healthcare, agriculture, and social intervention programmes as well as citizens rights protection, transparency and accountability, in the last 18 months.

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The governor added: “In the area of security, we have forged a solid partnership with federal security forces to secure Kaduna State.

“We have been giving them logistics support to enhance their operations. We distributed 150 operational vehicles and 500 motorcycles to security forces and the Kaduna State Vigilance Service (KADVS).

“The State Government, in collaboration with relevant security agencies, has sustained efforts in the improvement of deployment of additional troops to cover identified target areas in order to ensure sustainable peace across the state.”

Giving key highlights of the 2025 budget, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Planning and Budget, Muktar Ahmed, disclosed that 26 per cent was earmarked to education and 16 per cent to health, totaling 42 per cent to the critical sectors.

According to him, recurrent expenditure, including debt service, stands at N248,245,007,409.60 and total capital expenditure is N542,194,572,673.56.

Giving the expenditure breakdown, the commissioner said N370,557,608,564.16 has been earmarked for the economic sector, comprising agriculture, public works, and Infrastructure.

On the other hand, N358,070,895,572.14 is for the social sector which is made up of the education, health, social development and general administration: N48,328,500,762.08. The law and justice sector will have N13,482,575,184.78.

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