Education, health top priorities as El-Rufai submits 2019 budget
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai again prioritised education as he submitted the proposed 2019 budget to the State House of Assembly on Wednesday.
Education made up 27.5% of El-Rufai’s proposed budget, while 15.02% was devoted to the health sector.
The N155.86 billion budget is broken into N62.3billion recurrent and 93.5billion capital expenditure.
The governor pledged that his administration would complete all the projects it started and pay up all its contractual obligations before the end of the year.
“The proposed 2019 budget size is N155,865,339,539.77 with recurrent expenditure of N62,339,040,309.19 and capital expenditure of N93,526,299,230.58 representing 40% as recurrent expenditure and 60% as capital expenditure,” he said.
“The 2019 budget keeps faith with our commitment to human capital development through investments in the social sector, which takes 42.8% of the budget. Social sector spending is mainly on education which is allocated 27.15% and health on which we propose to spend 15.02%.
“Mr. Speaker, we will strive to complete every single project we have started in each of our 23 local government areas, and to pay the contractors we have commissioned to work for us. We will continue to cut the cost of government and ensure that our people are the ultimate beneficiaries of public resources.”
El-Rufai is the first governor to present next year’s budget to the assembly.
