By Babangida Galleon
Adamawa State Government has approved a supplementary budget of One Hundred and Thirty-Five Billion, Seventy Million, One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Thousand, Three Hundred and Twenty-Three Naira for 2025, bringing the total budget size to Six Hundred and Twenty-One Billion, Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Million, Two Hundred and Forty-Five Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty-Three Naira.
Briefing Government House correspondents shortly after the 18th Executive Council meeting chaired by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, James Iliya, said the supplementary budget was necessary to fund key infrastructural projects that have a direct impact on the lives of the people.
The Council also approved the payment of One Billion, Two Hundred and Sixty Million Naira as counterpart funding for the 2025 Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and Conditional Grants Scheme CGS implementation.
Iliya explained that the project, when funded, will advance the SDG agenda for the benefit of the people of the state.
The Commissioner further revealed that the Council approved funds for the award of a contract for the construction of the Maiha–Mubi road, covering about 24 kilometres, at the sum of Fourteen Billion, Nine Hundred and Eighty-Six Million, Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six Thousand, One Hundred and Sixty-Seven Naira, Twenty-Five Kobo.
The contract was awarded to Messrs Triacta Limited with a completion period of 15 months.
He explained that the contract was initially awarded in 2002 but later abandoned in 2014, hence the need for the state government to re-award it for the benefit of the people along that axis and the state at large.
The Commissioner for Works and Energy Development, Adamu Atiku, noted that the construction of the Mubi–Maiha federal road is an intervention by the state on a federal asset, carried out through the proper process.
He reiterated that the government is aware of the Federal Government’s new policy of non-refund for federal road projects executed by states.
He added that the intervention was a deliberate step by the state government to improve the lives of the people.
Also, the Commissioner for Budget, Emmanuel Pridimso, explained that the supplementary budget was necessitated by an additional revenue of over One Hundred and Thirty-Five Billion Naira recorded by the state. He stressed that the government cannot spend such funds without appropriation, hence the approval to enable it to complete ongoing projects and introduce new ones.
Pridimso said the supplementary budget has increased the total budget size from Four Hundred and Eighty-Six Billion, Two Hundred and Eighteen Million, Forty-Seven Thousand, Six Hundred Naira, earlier approved for the 2025 fiscal year, to the new figure of Six Hundred and Twenty-One Billion, Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Million, Two Hundred and Forty-Five Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty-Three Naira.
The Commissioner further stated that the revised budget will be forwarded to the State House of Assembly by the governor, adding that the move demonstrates the government’s transparency and accountability.
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