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Roads Infrastructure Takes Lion’s Share of ₦230bn In Delta’s ₦936bn 2025 Budget

As Oborevwori Presents Appropriation Bill to House of Assembly

Roads Infrastructure Takes Lion’s Share of ₦230bn In Delta’s ₦936bn 2025 Budget
Oborevwori lays Appropriation Bill before the House
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Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has presented a 936,078,818,719 billion Appropriation Bill for the 2025 fiscal year to the state Legislature.
Christened ‘Budget of Fiscal Consolidation’, the budget estimate, presented on Thursday, was made up of 348, 717, 758, 635 billion recurrent expenditures, representing 37.25 per cent, and capital expenditure of 587,361,060,084 representing 62.75 per cent. The 2025 budget is 211bn higher than the 2024 approved sum of 725bn, indicating an increase of 29 per cent.
Governor Oborevwori attributed the increase to the realignment of the exchange rate, which resulted in higher Federal Allocation Accounts Committee (FAAC) allocations and associated revenues.
According to the governor, “This is in addition to a corresponding improvement in our Internally Generated Revenues in the year.
“The 2025 budget contains several initiatives planned to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal on our people and all the attendant economic challenges it has brought upon us.
These include deliberate provisions to strengthen our social protection interventions and safety nets, basic rural infrastructure, agriculture and food security, agro value chain, and MSMEs.
“The 2025 Budget focuses on continued provision of physical infrastructure, human capital development, job creation, wealth creation, and poverty reduction in our dear state. The state government intends to achieve these through prudent management of our resources and prioritising expenditures on health, education, agriculture, water resources, environment, housing, as well as women and youth empowerment, programmes.
“In 2025, we propose to spend 230 billion on Road Infrastructure; 67.42 billion on Education; Health will gulp 30.55 billion; Water Resources; 11.03 billion and Agriculture, 7 billion.”
Government Oborevwori appealed for the speedy passage of the appropriation bill by the lawmakers.
In his remarks, Speaker of the House, Emomotimi Guwor said the state had witnessed unprecedented development due to the Governor’s pragmatic style of governance and commended the governor for continuing and completing inherited projects from previous administrations.
He lauded Governor Oborevwori for his fiscal discipline, and ensuring value for money, which he epitomised in returning over 500m to the state coffers while serving as Speaker, and for saving over 14 bn for Local Government Councils across the state.
Guwor called on the governor to institutionalise pre-budget planning parley between the Executive and the Legislature to help balance priorities within available resources.
The Speaker urged all Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government to cooperate with the Committees of the House during the budget defence sessions to ensure seamless consideration and timely passage of the budget.
A motion for the adoption of the budget was moved by the House Majority Leader, Emeka Nwaobi, and seconded by member representing Ika Northeast Constituency, Marilyn Okowa-Daramola.
The budget presentation was witnessed by the state deputy governor, Monday Onyeme, and members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Abraham Ingobere, among others.

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