The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved N123.3 billion as the 2025 budget for the 23 local government councils in the state.

The house made the approval after Yunusa Shehu, the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and Implementation, presented a report on a bill for a law to make appropriations funds for the local government councils.

The local government chairmen had participated in a budget defence exercise recently in which they proposed a budget of N115.9 billion.

This entails N64.4 billion for recurrent provision, N45.2 billion for personnel cost, N20.2 billion for overhead cost, and N50.5 billion for capital expenditures.

The budget was, however, amended by the committee after a critical study and harmonisation.

Mr Shehu stated that the proposed budget was amended and increased by N7.42 billion, making a total of N123.3 billion.

He said, “We had a budget defence in which we found out that there are LGAs that needed adjustment for their budget size.

“After going through it, we sat down as a committee with representatives of the ministry to harmonise the budget and come out with a figure that will be applicable for the 23 LGAs.”

He explained that the recurrent provision was 60 per cent while capital was 40 per cent.

(NAN)