Oyo State's governor, Seyi Makinde, submitted an N310 billion budget to the state house of assembly on Thursday for approval.
Mr Makinde introduced the budget, dubbed "Budget of Sustainable Development," and stated that the total was made up of N155.6 billion in recurrent expenses and N154.3 billion in capital expenditures, or 49.79% and 50.21%, respectively.
Instead of beginning new initiatives, he claimed that the budget's main objective was to finish all current ones.
According to Mr Makinde, the budget was predicated on N83.5 billion in internally produced revenue.
“Our statutory allocation is capped at N50 billion while our VAT is capped at N60 billion.
“We also have other revenue streams as contained in the detailed budget proposal,” he said.
Infrastructure took the lead in the budget with an N85.7 billion allocation, while the education sector followed with N58.2 billion.
“For this budget, we have continued to prioritise the four pillars of our roadmap to accelerated development in Oyo State 2019-2023, so 27.65 per cent of this budget has been allocated to infrastructure.
“This is not unexpected as we have always allocated more funds to infrastructure as a sure path to accelerated development, and we are continuing in that stride for sustainable development.
“We have maintained our record of allocating funds for education that conform to UNESCO standards of 15-20 per cent of the budget.
“This time, education is 18.78 per cent of the total budget,” he said.
In his remarks, the Speaker of the House, Debo Ogundoyin said that the budget would be used to consolidate the foundation laid by the administration since its inception in 2019.
“Which has given us an edge over all past administrations in Oyo state especially in terms of infrastructure growth, educational development and socio-economic transformation.
“I want to applaud the people’s governor for setting the pace in all areas of development as attested to by the overwhelming support we have continued to receive from the people of the state,” he said.
(NAN)