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Aug 19, 2020, 5 tweets

Is President @MBuhari's govt prioritizing the welfare of Nigerians?

Investments in capital projects & critical sectors have been abysmal!

FG is to spend over 87% of its allocations to Health & Education on recurrent expenses

Capital projects got just 12%

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#RevisedBudget

N414bn which represents just 3.8% of total budget size was allocated for the health sector

N363bn which is 87.6% of allocation to health will be spent on personnel and admin costs

Meanwhile just N51bn set aside for capital projects.

This is not good enough!

Allocations to Ministry of Agriculture @FmardNg is a paltry N160bn. This represents just 1% of the total 2020 revised budget.

This is not okay.

@NigeriaGov needs to invest more in Agriculture if it plans to make the sector a strong pillar of Nigeria's FEE.

#RevisedBudget

Allocation to the ministry of humanitarian affairs racked up just 4% of the total budget size.

84% of its allocation will be spent on personnel and administrative expenses.

This ministry needs more investment as it directly affects the welfare of the citizens.

#RevisedBudget

As for Works & Housing sector (@FMWHNIG) and @PowerMinNigeria, allocations represents just 2.67% and 1.23% of the total budget, respectively

@NigeriaGov needs to invest more in both sectors

Allocations for capital expenditures in both sectors were N265bn and 128bn respectively.

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