By Adeyinka Adeniran
Oyo state House of Assembly on Monday said it was ready to year 2024 Budget presentation by Governor Seyi Makinde.
The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin gave the assurance of the readiness during Monday’s plenary proceeding, saying all is set to receive the governor and the budget proposal.
In his announcement, while reading Message from the Executive, the Governor had written to inform the House about his readiness to present the budget on Tuesday, 5th December, 2023.
The Nation reports that, Makinde had also earlier last week Wednesday disclosed his plans and intentions to present the Budget to the State House of Assembly.
The House however adjourned its sitting till Tuesday 5th.
At the event, the governor is expected to present the budget proposal before the 32-member House of Assembly, accompanied by top government functionaries.
It would be recalled that the state government held stakeholders’ consultative meetings on the 2024 Budget across the seven administrative zones of the state to give account of the 2023 budget performance and collate the views and needs of people across all the zones.
Governor Makinde had, during the kickoff of the stakeholders’ consultative forum in Ibadan, declared that his administration will continue to produce budgets with the full inputs of the people and also execute the same with their utmost interests at heart.
As the governor is set to unveil the 2024 budget, residents of the state will look forward to more developments in the new year, having witnessed the implementations of the 2023 Budget of Sustainable Development, 2022 Budget of Growth and Opportunities and the 2021 Budget of Continued Consolidation, which have repositioned the state over the past years.
