Niger Assembly passes local governments budget of N65.5 billion frowns at yearly IGR of N1 billion.
While the Capital vote is to gulp N19, 613, 761,649, the Recurrent expenditure stood at N45, 926,303,467.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Bawa Wuse disclosed this during plenary while passing the local government 2020 Appropriation Bill into law. The lawmakers urged the council chairmen to expand their Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, base to reduce over-dependence on the Federal Government Allocation.
They also called on the councils not to undertake projects that are within the jurisdictions of Federal and State Governments but restrict them to their constitutional responsibilities.
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