Bashir Opaluwa Idris
Kogi State House of Assembly has passed a bill for Supplementary Budget of 22.1 billion for the 2025 fiscal year to enable the state to finance critical infrastructure, inflation and ensure the security of lives and property of citizens.
The Supplementary Budget Bill was passed at plenary sitting following the adoption of the House Standing Committee on Appropriation, Budget Monitoring and Economic Planning report on the Bill.
Presenting the Report, Chairman of the Committee and member representing Mopamuro State Constituency, Hon. Jacob Sam Olawumi, said the request from Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo for the House’s approval for the Supplementary Budget of N22,124,873,229.00 was committed to the Committee on sixth of this month.
According to the letter from the Governor, the Supplementary Budget is expected to help in adequately addressing the prevailing state of the nation as it impacts on the State and it’s citizenry.
Hon. Olawumi reported that “the Committee, having scrutinized and considered the various provisions as provided, do hereby recommend for the House approval the sum of N22,124,873,229,00 Naira only as proposed in addition to N582, 404,119,489,00 Naira only.
With the approval, the sum of N604,528,992,718,00 only now stands as the total estimate of the revised appropriation for the year ending 31st December, 2025.”
Following the adoption of the Committee Report, the Supplementary Bill scaled through the second and third reading leading to its passage and approval of the Supplementary Budget for the Executive.
The House at plenary also gave concurrent readings to two new executive bills and passed them in view of the urgency and importance attached to them.
One of the bills, A Bill for a Law to Provide for the Kogi State Irrigation Water Users’ Associations and for Other Matters Connected Therewith, 2025″, had its first, second, third readings and was passed.
The second, “A Bill for a Law to Establish Kogi State Water Sector and Other Matters Connected Therewith, 2025,” also had is concurrent readings and was passed.
Speaking after the passage of the bills, Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aliyu Umar Yusuf, said the bills are very important as they are expected to rejig the agricultural development of the State.
On the irrigation bill, the Speaker said a lot of international bodies including the IMF would be ready to assist those who will engage themselves in efforts to improve food security.
On the Supplementary Budget Bill, Speaker Yusuf said government had to resort to the Supplementary appropriation as a result of some in-flows that were not captured in the 2025 budget.
