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December 3, 2021

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has presented a budget of N483,173,307,96 to the state House of Assembly for the 2022 fiscal year.

The governor presented the document before the Rivers State House of Assembly today.

According to the Governor, the sum of N314, 903, 108,116 is earmarked for capital expenditure representing 70 per cent of the total budget estimate while N114, 764, 818, 977 for recurrent expenditure represents 30%.

Further breakdown of the capital expenditure indicates that administrative sector will gulp over N104 billion economic sector about N127 billion, law and justice N4 billion while the social sector will gulp over N79 billion.

In the recurrent expenditure; salaries and wages will cost over N77 billion while new recruitment will cost about N1 billion.

The 2022 budget of the Rivers State Government is tagged, “Budget of Consolidation”.

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