Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said the spending choices of the state government demonstrate its commitment to building human capital and infrastructure and promoting social welfare.
El-Rufai also said the state seeks to retain its economic competitiveness and enhance its capacity to support the vulnerable by enacting a Social Protection Bill to build on its recently adopted Social Protection Policy.
The governor was speaking while presenting the state’s 2021 draft budget to the Kaduna State House of Assembly.
He disclosed that 66 percent of the 257-billion-naira budget is devoted to capital expenditure to support its commitments to Education, Health, Infrastructure and Agriculture.
He stated that while the state seeks to expand its capacity to collect more internally generated revenues, it will not hike taxes or levies.
