Ayade Presents N1.43tn Budget to Lawmakers

The Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has presented a budget of N1.43 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year.

Ayade, while presenting the budget christened ‘Budget of Qabalistic Densification’, the highest state budget in the country, said the budget was “magical and spiritual in nature that could only be achieved by strategic long term plan.”

Presenting the budget to the state House of Assembly, the governor said the budget would deal mostly on issues of industrialisation that would cut across all the local government areas in the state with connection to the superhighway and deep sea port.

“This year’s budget is tagged: ‘Qabalistic Densification’; it is a magical budget of concentrating all of our ideas and ideals into a cumulative action point that will deliver with escape velocity.

“This budget is ambitious, but driven by intellectual strength. It is N1.430, 967,000,000.

“The budget seems to address the fundamental trust of our governance agitator creating a property direction and partway focusing on the realisation of the core mandate of this government shifting Cross River State from third world to first world within eight years and that can only be achieved by a strategic long term plan,” Ayade said.

The governor said the budget would deal effectively with the issue of the active industrialisation of every local government area.

Though the governor was silent on the projection for current and recurrent expenditure, he disclosed that N1.8billion is used to service the state’s debt every month.

Ayade stated that 35 percent of the 2019 budget would be allocated to infrastructure, but was silent on allocations to other sectors.

The governor also gave a hinted on the performance of the state 2018 N1. 3 trillion ‘Budget of kinetic Crystallisation’.