Gov to present 2017 budget to LAHA on Tuesday
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State will on Tuesday, Nov.29, present the Year 2017 appropriation bill to the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) for approval.
A statement signed by Miss Bose Lambo,
the Director, Public Affairs of the Assembly, said the presentation
would commence at 10a.m., and urged invited guests to be punctual.
She said, “Year
2017 Budget Estimates Presentation by His Excellency, Mr Akinwunmi
Ambode, Governor of Lagos State will hold on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at the
Assembly Chambers, Assembly Complex, Alausa, Ikeja.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that Ambode presented the 2016 budget of N662.58 billion to the Assembly
for approval on Dec. 17, 2015.
The 2016
budget was made up of capital expenditure of N383.678 billion and a
recurrent expenditure of N278.909 billion in the ratio of 58:42
respectively as against 51:49 in 2014 and 2015.
The
2016 budget represented an improvement of 26 per cent over the budgets
of 2014 and 2015 respectively, which stood at N489.69 billion.
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