Nasarawa Assembly passes N92.2bn 2025 supplementary budget into second reading
Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed into second reading Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N92.2bn for the 2025 fiscal year.
The speaker of the House, Dr. Danladi Jatau, announced this on Tuesday during the house proceedings in Lafia.
Dr. Jatau said that the passage of the bill into law would enable the state government meet up with the emerging demands and challenges arising from changes in national macroeconomic variables.
The speaker, then, committed the bill to the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation to work on it and report back to the house on Monday.
”A Bill for a Law to Authorise the Issue Out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State the Sum of N92, 150, 231, 374.88 only Supplementary/ Amendment Appropriation Bill) for the Services of Nasarawa State Government for the 2025 Fiscal Year to N476, 468, 074, 966.91 only covering the period from 1st January to 31st December, 2025 scales second reading,” the speaker said.
Earlier, the Majority Leader of the house, Suleiman Azara, while giving the substance of the bill, urged his colleagues to support the bill to scale second reading.
The majority leader said that the supplementary budget was necessary to enable the state government continue with the good work it is doing for the people of the state.
Azara also said that there were projects that were not captured in the 2025 budget, hence the need of the supplementary budget.
The majority leader further said that the supplementary budget, if passed into law, would enable the state government compete its ongoing projects in the state.
Also contributing, Dr Peter Akwe, Mohammed Isimbabi, Larry Ven- Bawa, Dr Hajarat Danyaro, Esson Mairiga, Jacob Ajegena Kudu and Ibrahim Sa’ad, all supported the bill to scale second reading.
They hailed Gov. Abdullahi Sule for executing legacy projects across the state, promising their continued support to ensure that the bill sees the light of the day.
The majority leader of the house moved a motion for the bill to scale second reading .
Mr Luka Zhekaba, the Minority Leader of the house seconded the motion.
The house unanimously passed the bill into second reading.
