Plateau State governor, Mr. Simon Lalong, yesterday presented an appropriation bill of N154billion as 2016 budget to the Plateau State House of Assembly.

Lalong said that the budget, tagged: “Budget Of Rescue and Hope ,” is the first by the administration and it is aimed at tackling poverty in the state.

According to him “ The budget   is about Rescue and Hope, because in “my inaugural speech in   May 2015, I made bold to state that I am aware that our people, particularly the youth and women are currently bleeding in hardship and there is a pervasive sense of pessimism that the best days of our dear state are behind us.”

He said that many citizens share in that sense of despondency, which was growing by the day, hence the cry for change and rescue.

“I had given assurance about our determination to change and rescue situations and overcome the handicaps of the past and to meet the prospects that lie in the future with courage and confidence. In this way, we would give hope to the citizens”.

He said the 2016 budget is unique in the sense that it is zero -based, whereby total projected revenue equals total projected expenditure. He noted that this phenomenon is part of a closed loop spending management, which strategically reverses and possibly eliminate the trend of large deficit on the revenue, and encourage critical review of every anticipated scheme that would lead to planned investment on development projects during the financial year.

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Gov Lalong Presents N154bn Budget To Plateau Assembly