Edo State House of Assembly has passed 2025 appropriation bill into law.
The budget which is made up of 676 billion naira as against the 605 billion naira earlier presented to the House by Governor Monday Okpekholo comprises recurrent expenditure of 225 billion naira and capital expenditure of 451billion naira.
The passage of the budget was sequel to the consideration of the report by the house after chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Budget and Project Monitoring, Mr Sunday Fada had presented the report of the committee to the house for consideration.
The House at the committee of supply, subjected the appropriation bill to clause by clause consideration and subsequently approved an increase from the earlier proposed sum of N605billion to N676billion
The Speaker, Blessing Agbebaku, thereafter directed the Clerk of the House, Alhaji yahaya Omogbai, to forward clean copies of the bill to the governor for his assent.
