Kogi State House of Assembly has passed a bill for supplementary budget of 22.1 billion Naira 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 Wednesday plenary sitting following the adoption of the House Standing Committee on Appropriation, Budget Monitoring and Economic Planning report on the Bill.
Presenting the Committee Report, its Chairman, Hon. Jacob Sam Olawumi (APC-Mopamuro) 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 May 6th.
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.
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.
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.
“This is to provide room for those expenditures so that government would not have to spend out of budget”, Speaker Yusuf explained.
