By AbdulFatai Beki
Ilorin – The Kwara House of Assembly on Wednesday said that the delay in the passage of the Kwara 2017 appropriation bill was aimed at ensuring that the dividends of democracy got to all residents in the state.
The House Leader, Hassan Oyeleke, stated this while commenting on the progress of the budget during Wednesday’s plenary of the House.
He said all Members of the House were currently studying the budget towards ensuring that no segment of the state was left unattended to, in terms of infrastructural development.
Oyeleke pledged that the House would closely monitor the implementation of the budged by re invigorating its oversight functions to all project sites.
He added that this was one of the ways more development could be attained in the state, so that the state will continue to take its rightful place among the first generation of states created in 1967.
The House Leader described budget passage and implementation as one of the special functions of the legislature and urged his colleagues not to take it with levity.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gov. AbdulFatah Ahmed presented the 2017 budget of N135billion on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016.
The Kwara 2017 appropriation bill is currently at the third reading stage in the state House of Assembly.
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