The governor of Enugu State, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on December 17th, 2019 presented the 2020 budget tagged; “Budget of Responsive and Accountable Governance” estimated at One Hundred and sixty Nine Billion, Five Hundred and Fifty Seven Million, Six Hundred and fifty eight Thousand three hundred Naira. (169,557,658,300) to the Enugu State House of Assembly (ENHA)
The recurrent expenditure according to the budget will take N68.79bn which represents 40.57 percent while the capital budget gets a N100.77bn which represents 59.43 percent Of the 2020 budget.
2020 Budget the governor said is part of their 8-point agenda stressing that the 2019 budget achieved most of its set out agenda which made Enugu state outstanding and the fastest growing in terms of the economy in the entire country.
While thanking the House for their robust support, the governor thanked them for the speedy passage of the 2019 budget.
The speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi assured the Governor that the budget will be passed before the house goes for Christmas.
The Speaker called on the MDA’s to start coming for their budget defense from Thursday, 19th December, 2019.
