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The Edo State House of Assembly has passed the 2026 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N939,850,000,000 (Nine Hundred and Thirty-Nine Billion, Eight Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) presented to the House by Governor Monday Okpebholo for consideration.
The passage followed the presentation of the report of the House Standing Committee on Appropriation, Budget and Project Monitoring, chaired by Hon. Fada Eigbiremonlen, member representing Esan Central Constituency.
The House dissolved into the Committee of Supply where it considered and approved the report.
Under the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, capital expenditure will gulp N588,324,843,804.66 (Five Hundred and Eighty-Eight Billion, Three Hundred and Twenty-Four Million, Eight Hundred and Forty-Three Thousand, Eight Hundred and Four Naira, Sixty-Six Kobo), while recurrent expenditure will take N351,525,156,195.34 (Three Hundred and Fifty-One Billion, Five Hundred and Twenty-Five Million, One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand, One Hundred and Ninety-Five Naira, Thirty-Four Kobo).
After passage, the Speaker, Rt. Hon. (Prince) Yekini Idaiye, directed the Clerk of the House, Alhaji Yahaya Omogbai, to transmit clean copies of the Bill to Governor Monday Okpebholo for assent.
In another development, the Speaker congratulated the revered Oba of Benin on his 10th coronation anniversary.
He commended the monarch’s peaceful reign and the development witnessed under it, and prayed God to grant him long life and good health.
Prince Idaiye also invited members and staff of the Assembly to an Education Summit scheduled to hold at the John Odigie-Oyegun Staff Training Centre from the 21st to the 23rd of this month.
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