Kaduna Weekly • Created August 17, 2020 01:13

KAD Facts

– Governor Nasir El-Rufai presented the 2016 draft budget to a Town Hall meeting on November 29, 2015, after six months in office; -The budget estimate was N166 billion; N104 billion was earmarked for capital expenditure and N62 billion was for recurrent spending; -The ‘’Budget of Sacrifice, Restoration and Change’’ was submitted to Kaduna House […]

KAD Facts

– Governor Nasir El-Rufai presented the 2016 draft budget to a Town Hall meeting on November 29, 2015, after six months in office;

-The budget estimate was N166 billion; N104 billion was earmarked for capital expenditure and N62 billion was for recurrent spending;

-The ‘’Budget of Sacrifice, Restoration and Change’’ was submitted to Kaduna House of Assembly on November 28, 2015;

-The size of budget was N171.7 billion; N109.3 billion (64%) was earmarked for capital projects while N62.4 billion (36%) was for recurrent expenditure;

-The legislature passed the budget on December 22, 2015 and the next day, the governor signed the appropriation bill into law;

-Governor El-Rufai submitted the 2017 draft budget, christened ‘’Budget of Jobs, Social Justice and Equity’’, to the House of Assembly on October 12, 2016;

-On December 1, the legislature passed the budget of N214. 921 billion and on December 13, the governor had signed it into law;

-N131.45 billion was for capital expenditure while N83.46 billion was for recurrent spending; representing a 61: 39 spending ratio;

-In the 2017 budget, N44.84 billion was devoted to Education, N10 billion was earmarked for the Health sector and N24.50 billion on Infrastructure;

-Similarly, Governor El-Rufai had presented the 2018 draft budget, tagged ‘’Budget of Consolidation,’’ to the House of Assembly on October 13, 2017;

-The entire budget was N216.55 billion and out of that amount, N131 billion was earmarked for capital expenditure, representing 60.5% of the total budget;

– Likewise, N85.4 billion was devoted to recurrent spending, translating into 39.4% of the Appropriation Bill;

-Education, Health and Social Development took the largest chunk of 39.2% of the capital budget;

-Education got N33billion while Health had N17 billion;

-The governor signed the 2018 budget into law in December 12, 2017;

– On August, 15, 2018, Governor El-Rufai presented an estimated revenue and expenditure of 2019 fiscal year to Kaduna State House of Assembly, amounting to N155. 86 billion;

-The legislators increased the size of the budget to N157.449 billion, comprising N94.47 billion and N62.97 billion for capital and recurrent expenditures respectively;

-The Governor signed the budget into law on December 21, 2018, maintaining the 60: 40 capital-to-recurrent expenditure ratio;

– The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe presented the draft 2020 budget to Kaduna State House of Assembly, 15th October, 2019;

-In summary, N245. 4 billion was proposed for this year, with N177. 29 billion devoted to capital projects while the rest N68.11 billion was earmarked for recurrent expenditure;

-This represents 72.24 % to 27. 76% capital to recurrent expenditure ratio; N33. 92 billion and N23.34 billion has been allocated the Education and Health sectors respectively;

– The revised budget was passed on 2nd July, 2020, by the State House of Assembly.

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