Jigawa state house of Assembly has approved the review of the state 2024 appropriation bill to rise N16,980,000,000:00 k for funding Agricultural program, foreign scholarship and provision of emergency relief to flood and other natural disaster victims.
The assembly passed the bill after a house committee on appropriation bill presented it’s report before the house.
The report presented by the chairman House Committee on Appropriation Hon Ibrahim Hamza has recommended for slashing N1 billion out of N2.1 billion allocated for the Assembly Projects and asset acquisition. also N1.1 billion out of N2.1 billion allocated to the State Research Institute.
Other ministry and MDs board affected by the adjustment to rise the fund included, Religious affairs, State Hiv/ Aids Control Agency ( SACA) Pilgrims Welfare Board, Office of The Resident Auditors, Internal Revenue Headquater, Tourism promoting Social register Maintainace among others.
According to the committee report , out of the N16.9 billion Naira N8 billion was transferred for Agricultural mechanisation and procurement of Agriculture plants and implements to boost the sector.
“The sume of N500 million transfered to Scholarship to reads N3.1 billion, N1.7 billion for immunization, NI.7 to the newly created state Ministry of a Renewable Energy, N1.4 increased to Emergency Response and N1.8 billion to the state Ministry of Finance for contingency, among others.
The house sitting which was prisided by the Speaker Rt. Hon Haruna Aliyu Dangyating deliberated on the report and unanimously approved the recommendation for the adjustment in the state 2024 appropriation bill.
However during the sitting the assembly pass bill for the establishment of Water Users Association, bills for Jigawa state Public Health Security and a bill for the establishment of Tsangaya Education Board for repositioning and integrating Tsangaya Education into formal education system in the state.
