Ondo governor signs revised 2009 appropriation bill into law

By Niyi Bello, Akure

ONDO State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, yesterday, signed into law, the revised 2009 budgetary proposal in a last ditch attempt to thaw the icy relationship between the executive and legislative arms of government in the state's fiscal management.

Two weeks ago, a N27 billion supplementary appropriation bill sent by the Labour Party (LP) governor to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-controlled assembly, was rejected by the lawmakers who insisted on doing the appraisal of the N85 billion budgeted for the former administration of Dr. Olusegun Agagu before the new fiscal proposal could be accepted.

The lawmakers also requested that the document should be properly worked out because of alleged inconsistencies in the quoted figures while referring it to the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation for scrutiny.