“If a road is to be constructed and it is captured in the 2024 budget and by August, nothing has been done, we will march to the Ministry of Works to demand why it has not started,” the chairperson of the group said.
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According to him, parts of the demands of the group include the N1.4 billion budgeted for the completion of the Ekiti International Cargo Airport, the money budgeted for youth/farmer empowerment and subventions to farmers. “This project is to help sell the government’s vision and projects in tax collection. This is so especially now that the federal government and other sub-national entities are trying to increase their Internally Generated Revenue because they cannot continue to rely on oil money or money coming from Abuja for payment of salaries and execution of projects,” he said.
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