Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, is to run his office in 2015 with a staggering N18.6 billion.
The Chief of Staff to the governor, Gboyega Oyetola, who disclosed this while defending the budget of the Governor’s Office before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, said that “N6,925,000,000 is for recurrent expenditure and its capital expenditure is proposed at the sum of N11.7 billion.
“The budget size for the year represents a 36.13 per cent reduction in the size of the budget for year 2014,” he said, adding that the Office of the Governor proposed to raise N3.02 billion as revenue through tender fees, registration of contractors, capital receipts and from other sources.
According to Oyetola, N1.159 billion is expected to be expended on salaries, allowances and other remuneration of career officers and political office holders in the Office of the Governor.
The sum of N3.775 billion is expected to be spent on general administration of bureaus and agencies in the Office of the Governor, as part of overhead costs.
The payment of salaries to the Governor, the Deputy Governor, Judges, the State Independent Electoral Commission and others would gulp N2 billion.
N11.72 billion was proposed to cater for the execution and implementation of projects and programmes of agencies and bureaus in the Office of the Governor.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, Kamil Oyedele, promised that the House would give the budget a critical and accelerated consideration and passage.
Oyedele also appreciated the House for their patience during the presentation and defence of the budget by the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
NAN reports that the House of Assembly ended the week-long presentation and hearing of budgets by the MDAs in the state on Friday.
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