By Dele Moses, Ilorin
Kwara State governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has increased the state 2021 budget proposal from N123,091,307,468.00 to N134,961,924,650.00 three weeks after presenting the proposal to the state House of Assembly.
The governor’s decision to jerk up the budget estimates is contained in a letter sent to the House of Assembly and read at the plenary on Monday by the Speaker, Engr Yakubu Salihu-Danladi.
The governor said that the increase in the budget was necessitated by new developments that cropped up in the state after the presentation of the budget proposal to the assembly in December 18, 2020.
The reviewed budget proposals is N134,961,924,650 with the capital and the recurrent standing at N64,524,459,855 and N70,437,464,795 respectively.