From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, had signed the 2023 Appropriation Bill into law.
A statement made available to our correspondent stated that the budget was signed on Thursday night having been passed into law by the House of Assembly on Wednesday.
The 2023 budget estimate of N138 billion, is tagged: “Budget of Consolidation”.
It has Personnel Expenditure component of N45,450,655,060; Recurrent Expenditure, N53,755,885,370; total recurrent expenditure N99,206,540,430; while Capital Expenditure stands at N39,059,447,710, making the total budget size N138,265,988,140.
Signing the Appropriation Bill into law in his office at Government Secretariat, Abere, Osogbo, Governor Oyetola announced that the 2022 budget as of the third quarter of this year had recorded 83 percent performance.
He noted that, with the passage and signing of the Appropriation Bill into law, the January-December budget cycle has come to stay.
Earlier, the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye, commended the Governor for making the January-December budget cycle a reality and putting Osun in an enviable state in the country as regards State budgeting.
“The January-December budget cycle is rightly put in place in the State of Osun. Our state is the first to do so in the country. I congratulate my colleagues for being dutiful and upright.”