The Nasarawa State House of Assembly yesterday passed the 2019 appropriation bill of N90.17 billion.
Speaker Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi disclosed that the House jerked up the budget by over N3billion due to the omission of the Nasarawa Youth Empowerment Scheme (NAYES) sectoral allocation, among others.
He said: “The House approved and passed a total budget size of N90,170,246,463.52 billion only to be issued out from the consolidated revenue fund of which N51.029,581,277.52billion only which represents 57% for recurrent expenditure and N31,966,994,046billion only which represents 35% is for capital expenditure and consolidated revenue fund charges of N7,173,671,140 billion only representing 8% is for debt servicing, pensions and gratuities”.