Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo yesterday signed the 2023 Appropriation Bill containing N259billion into law.
Soludo, while performing the ceremony at the Governor’s Lodge, Awka, said the budget was premised on five pillars.
He listed them as: Security, Law and Order; Economic Transformation; Social Agenda; Human Capital Development/ Transformation of Government Works and Environment.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Soludo had on November 10 presented a proposed budget of N259billion to the House of Assembly for consideration.
The governor thanked the Assembly led by Speaker Uche Okafor for their diligent and expeditious consideration of the budget, which made it ready for signing barely a month after it was presented.
He said his administration was ready to deliver quality governance to the people of Anambra and that the five policy thrusts would get equal and simultaneous attention.