Sokoto State Governor, Ahmad Aliyu, has presented a total of 758.7bn naira to the Sokoto state House of Assembly as the proposed 2026 budget.
While making the presentation governor Aliyu proposed a 72% capital expenditure with a 28% recurrent expenditure.
He stressed that attention will be paid to the demands of citizens that aligned with the administration nine points agenda.
According to him, security and health care delivery are among the top priorities and 16% of the budget size, amounting to over one hundred and twenty two billion, seven hundred and twenty seven million nine hundred and ninety two naira fifty nine kobo.
With the budget tagged “Budget of Socio-Economic Expansion,” the governor also allocated over a hundred and sixteen billion naira to education, and the agricultural sector was allocated the sum of eighteen billion, seven hundred and forty two million four hundred and ninety seven hundred, one hundred and eighty two naira.
