Cross River State governor, Professor Ben Ayade on
Thursday presented the 2021 appropriation bill to the State House
of Assembly.
Tagged Budget of ‘Blush and Bliss’, the budget has a total
estimate of N277 billion.
The sum of N192,511,985,550 representing 67 percent of the
entire budget is earmarked for recurrent expenditure while
N88,196,500 representing 33 percent is for capital expenditure.
The governor explained that due to the cumulative impact of the
disasters that characterised the year 2020, 67 percent of the
budget goes for recurrent expenditure.
This according to Ayade is set aside to meet the immediate and
physical needs of Cross River residents in the aftermath of the
COVID-19 and #EndSARS aftermath
“I decided along with my executive council after due
consultation that the budget of this year will focus more on the
humanitarian perspective.
“We have decided to shift focus from infrastructure, from big
projects and refocus on the people.
“So this is the people’s budget. This budget takes care of
unemployment, takes care of the issues of security consistent with
the provisions of the Constitution in section 14 sub Section 2,”
the governor said during the presentation.
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He said further that “we have decided to focus so much on
Agriculture, youth Employment, Social housing, and youth skill
development.”
The budget has a provision for the establishment of
Neighbourhood Security Watch which is aimed at dealing with the
issues of neighborhood protection and create employment for
youths.
Explaining the reason for the title of the budget, Ayade said:
“Blush because we are going through a situation where our face is
red and in pain, it is blush because we are coming away from our
big dreams of kinetic crystallization, from our Olimpotic Agenda
and reducing ourselves to a consumptive effort just to reflect the
mood of the times.”
He also condoled with residents of Cross River who in the course
of the recent arson and vandalism in the state suffered any form of
loss.
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