Highlight of 2025 revenue and expenditure estimates as presented by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf at the floor of the State House of Assembly presided by speaker, Rt. hon. Jibril Ismail Falgore

Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members, the size of the proposed 2025 Budget is N549,160,417,663.00 billion. The capital component is N312,634,912,672.18 billion, while the recurrent expenditure is set at N236,525,504,990.82billion.

When the 2025 appropriation is approved, is projected to have a ratio of capital to recurrent 57:43 percent respectively. Most of the capital spending will be in the Social and Economic Sectors to the tune of 461,447,963,240.86.

Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members permit me to present the breakdown of both recurrent and capital allocations based on sectors:
1. Education 168,350,802,346,19. 31.00%
2. Health 90,600,835,766.48. 16.50%
3. Agriculture 21,038,199,190.76. 3.83%
4. Infrastructure
70,682,843,744.15 12.87%
5. Manufacturing, Commerce, Industry and Tourism 3,887,338,871.45 1.22%
6. Environment and Sanitation 15,523,154,078.47 2.83%
7. Governance Institutions 98,242,089,019.58 17.57%
8. Security, Justice and Emergency Services 23,457,527,026.06 4.00%
9. Water Supply and Rural Development
27,235,112,601.05 4.96%
10. Transport Development
12,805,155,000 2.33%
11. Women, Youth and People witSpecial Needs N17,337,360,000 3.15%
TOTAL N549,160,417,663 100%

Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members, the breakdown above clearly indicates that the priorities of our administration in 2025 are human capital and infrastructural development. However, we have pledged to increase access to quality education despite the meager resources.

In line with this, I want to inform this respected chamber that we are considering the resuscitation of Kano Education Development Support, KEDS, under the Ministry of Education. It is our plan to develop it into a functional agency that will support the funding of education specifically for Basic; Upper Basic and Post-Basic Education.

On the other hand, trying to draw from TEFUND Counter funding by keeping to the terms for our tertiary institutions. Therefore, I believe the legislature will give the necessary legal teeth in fine tuning its edict for full implementation.

PROPOSED LEGISLATIONS AND AMENDMENTS IN 2025
Mr. Speaker, you are fully aware that a number of policies and reforms we are implementing require legislations, or amendments to extant laws. Therefore,
in the next fiscal year, we intend to bring before this Honourable House an array of bills for passage into
law.

The proposed bills include: An Education Trust Bill, Security Trust Bill, Marriage Control, Civil Service Bill, Kano State Motor Vehicle Administration Agency Bill, Social Protection Bill, Kano State Equity and Social Inclusion Bill, Kano Censorship Board Bill, State Emergency Management Agency Bill, Kano State Information Technology Development Agency Bil, Kano State Digital and e-Governance Bill, Small and Medium Enterprises Bill.

Others are Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission Bill, Kano State Will Bill, Water Users Association (WUA) Bill, Gari College of Education Bill, Audu Bako Polytechnic Bill, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies Bill, Aminu Kano College of Education and Legal Studies Bill, KHETFUND Bill, Proceeds of Crime Bill and Creation of Deputy Managing Directors at 10 MDAs’ Bill.

Mr. Speaker, it is our belief that
implementing these reforms and policies would improve the governance of the State, thereby facilitating achieving the developmental agenda we put forward in the forthcoming fiscal year.

Mr. Speaker and Honourable members, I thank you very much for your time. This Budget is intended to help all of us realize our collective dreams and aspirations for our dear State. It is our belief that the full and proper implementation of the Budget’s provisions would result to high economic prosperity and reduce dependency on grants coming from the federation account.

Mr. Speaker and Honourable Members, these brave steps taken to invest in human capital and infrastructural development would set stage for faster and sustained economic growth and development in the State.

The 2025 Budget goes further to support areas that will deliver inclusive growth especially in Commerce, Manufacturing as well as Agriculture and its value chain, as this is the anchor for our quest to reviving our moribund industries and consequent prosperity.

The achievements so far recorded despite our lean resources could not have been possible without the help of the Almighty Allah. It is by His grace that we have attained this level of excellent performance. We thank Him for His Blessings upon us and also pray that He would help us to achieve our singular goal of making Kano greater and taking it to more enviable heights.

We promise to faithfully implement the provisions of this Budget for the general good and well-being of our people. We will not relent in our resolve to alleviate poverty and restore hope, create wealth, generate employment, stimulate agriculture, improve electricity and maximize the overall well-being of our people.

I beseech you therefore to hastily consider and approve the 2025 Budget Proposals. It is, therefore, with great pleasure and a deep sense of responsibility that I lay before this Honourable House, the 2025 Budget of Kano State, which I tagged the ‘‘Budget of Hope, Human Capital and Economic.