Bauchi State Government said that it would spend 12 billion naira to build 2,500 houses in 2020.
The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Umar Adamu, said this in Bauchi while giving a breakdown of the 2020 budget.
Adamu said that the funds for the construction of the houses would be accessed from the Family Support funds.
He said that the houses would be developed in six local government areas in the state.
He said that most of the previous housing schemes in the state were abandoned as they were handled by private developers.
Commenting on the 2010 Budget, the commissioner for Budget and Planning, Dr. Aminu Gamawa, said that it was a complete departure from the usual system of budgeting that gave preference to recurrent expenditures.
Gamawa said that the state government had increased capital expenditures to 94.6 billion naira while recurrent expenditures were allocated 72.61 billion naira.
