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In the South-East region, while Anambra, Ebonyi, and Imo states spent fair shares of their budgets on capital items, Enugu and Abia states spent virtually nothing on capital projects as all expenses went to recurrent issues.
An analysis of three selected sectors – education, health, and agriculture – shows that Gombe performed better than other states in the North-East region in the 2022 budget performance.
Other states’ performance shows that Katsina State had a recurrent capital expenditure composition of 50% to 50%. In Kebbi State, it is 59% to 41%, 71% to 29% in Sokoto State, and 86% to 14% in Zamfara State.
Kogi State, by the end of the second quarter of 2022, had the best budget implementation performance amongst the states in the North-Central region. The state implemented 69.18 per cent of its first two-quarters pro rata budget. It budgeted N72.95 billion and spent N50.46 billion.
Cross River State spent the sum of N39.42 billion by the end of the second quarter as a total expenditure. Within this period, 27 per cent of the amount spent was on capital expenditure and 73 per cent on recurrent expenditure
In Osun and Ekiti states, 45 per cent of their agricultural expenditure was spent on capital expenditure. In Ondo State, 19 per cent of its agricultural expenditure was spent on capital expenditure, and 11 per cent was spent in Lagos State on capital expenditure.
