Osun Assembly Passes N129.7bn Budget for 2022

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

The Osun House of Assembly has passed the 2022 budget presented by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola before the legislators on October 5, 2021.

This was even as Oyetola wrote to the assembly yesterday seeking to extend the tenure of local government chairmen by another six months.

The budget has a total sum of N129,756,450,790. The recurrent expenditure was N53,893,627,990 and the capital expenditure which stands at N75,862,822,800.

The budget was christened “Budget of Sustainable Development” and is N19 billion higher than that of the 2021 “Budget of Providence.”

The larger chunk of it was earmarked for infrastructure, education and health sectors with the sum of N18.7 billion, N11.8 billion and N5.8 billion respectively.

The Speaker, RT. Hon. Timothy Owoeye, at plenary commended his colleagues and the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation for their painstaking effort in considering the 2021 Appropriation Bill.

Owoeye warned that no agency of government or ministry should tamper or alter the official figures in the 2022 budget, stating that such act would be taken up as a criminal offense, which might attract serious legal implications.

He said the House would be alive to its responsibilities while regular interactions would be held with MDAs and the people on budget performance and feedback.

Owoeye, who read the letter from Governor Oyetola, noted that the assembly would look into the request of tenure elongation for another six months for caretaker chairmen and other management committee members.

The speaker, however, directed the House Committee on Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs of the House to commence duties before the final consideration of the request.