Lafia LG budgets N4.2 bn for 2021 fiscal year

Lafia Local Government Area Council of Nasarawa State has budgeted N4,150,492.120.00 billion for 2021 fiscal year. Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Aminu Muazu Maifata, disclosed this at the signing of the budget in the Secretariat on Thursday in the presence of the Council Speaker, principal officers and members of the legislative council According to […]

Lafia Local Government Area Council of Nasarawa State has budgeted N4,150,492.120.00 billion for 2021 fiscal year.

Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Aminu Muazu Maifata, disclosed this at the signing of the budget in the Secretariat on Thursday in the presence of the Council Speaker, principal officers and members of the legislative council

According to him, “N3,311,021,220 has been appropriated for recurrent expenditure and 839,480,000.00 has been estimated for capital expenditure.

“All the expenditures were planned to be financed through the following expected sources of revenue: Statutory allocation, Value Added Tax, Exchange gain difference, Excess crude oil and internally generated revenue,” he said.

Aminu Maifata who is also the chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON ) in the state said that his administration has planned to drill boreholes and provide solar street lights in the 13 wards, construct culverts among others.

He said in 2020, his administration purchased a tractor, provided relief materials to victims of disaster, provided palliatives, paid WAEC and NECO examination fees to students among others.

The chairman however called on the people to live in peace and avoid any act that breaches law and  order.