The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly at plenary on Thursday passed the state 2020 appropriation bill of N597.73 billion.
The 2020 budget was made up of N369.58 billion capital expenditure, N111.23 billion recurrent expenditure, and N116.93 billion consolidated revenue.
The House had earlier dissolved into Committee of the Whole after a motion by House Leader, Mr Udo Kierian (PDP- Oruk Anam) and seconded by Mr Aniefiok Akpan (PDP- Etinan) to consider the appropriation bill.
Speaker of the House, Mr Aniekan Bassey, in his remarks, commended Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that appeared before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation during budget defence.
Bassey said that by the passage, the commencement date for the 2020 appropriation would be Jan.1, 2020.
He said that the overall objective was to give priority to areas of immediate importance to the Akwa Ibom people.
He directed the clerk, Mrs Mandu Umoren to send clean copy of the bill to the governor for assent.
