Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State says lawmakers in the state demonstrated a political alignment between the Executive and the legislature in providing essential services to the people when they increased 2025 budget to N807b

Uzodima signed the 2025 Appropriation Bill into law at the New Exco Chambers, Government House Owerri, increasing it to N807 billion from N756 billion with a pledge to support full implementation of the budget.

The Governor allocated a huge chunk of the budget to capital expenditure in 2025 to the tone of N694,786,041,220 or 86.09 per cent of the total sum while the recurrent expenditure, N112,302,000,000) or 13.91 percent was approved. The Ministry of Works and Infrastructural Development gets N297,509,312,778 or 42.8%, the Ministry of Transport, N101,010,000,000 or 14.5%, and the Ministry of Power and Electrification, N74,755,479,042 or 10.8%.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security was allocated N50,020,000,000 or 7.2% of the budget, Ministry of Education, N49,460,000,000 or 7.1% while the Ministry of Health gets N31,933,234,000 or 4.65%.

The Governor expressed satisfaction over the expeditious passage of the appropriation bill and tinkering with the original numbers, stressing that the move by the Assembly shows that the lawmakers have challenged the executive to commence work without delay on the 2025 budget.

“I have just signed into law the 2025 Imo State Appropriation Bill, which now has the force of law and serves as the financial operational manual for the state,” he said.

“While I initially proposed a budget of Seven Hundred and Fifty-Six Billion Naira for the year, the State House of Assembly, in its wisdom, adjusted it to N807 billion. It shows the alignment between the Executive and the Legislature in providing essential infrastructure and services to the people of the State.”