Fubara Signs N800bn 2024 Budget

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N800bn into law.

Osun Defender had reported that Fubara presented the bill on Wednesday, December 13, to a four-member House of Assembly led by Speaker Edison Ehie.

The governor arrived at the plenary of the assembly under the speakership of Rt. Hon. Edison Ehie, around 9:00 a.m.

The Rivers State House of Assembly had moved its sittings to a new complex within the Government House, Port Harcourt.

It was gathered that the house, on the directive of the state governor, relocated its sittings to a new place provided by the governor.

The governor was accompanied by the Secretary to the State Government, Tammy Danagogo, Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, and other members of his cabinet.

The State Executive Council, in its 5th sitting on Monday, approved the estimated budget of over N800 billion, christened the Budget of Renewed Hope, Consolidation, and Continuity for the 2024 fiscal year.

Fubara was said to have signed the budget on Thursday at the Government House, Port Harcourt.