Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has presented a budget of N330billion appropriation bill for the year 2023 to the State House of Assembly tagged
Giving a breakdown of the budget, the governor explained that N130billion has been earmarked for recurrent expenditure while N200 billion is for capital expenditure.
He stressed that the budget which will focus on deeper agro-industrialization will also see to the finalisation of all unfinished projects executed by the his administration. While lamenting how the state workforce has been drastically reduced due to the retirement in a year to come the Governor Ayade stressed on the need for massive recruitment in order to argument the existing workforce stressing that 85 percent of the workers in the state would be retired by next year.
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