Education, health will take lion’s share in 2022 Lagos budget proposal ― Commissioner

Education and heath will take lion’s share of the 2022 budget proposal of the Lagos State government to be presented by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to the State House of Assembly on Wednesday.

Governor Sanwo-Olu, on November 9, 2020, presented a budget proposal of N1.55trn, while the State House of Assembly on December 30, 2020, passed a budget of N1,168.6 trillion.

The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, made this known while speaking with the Tribune Online on the telephone, recalling that education and health had always carried the lion share in the yearly state government’s budget, and did not see how this year’s budget was going to be different this time around.

“I think it is going to follow the trend. Education and health have always carried the lion share in our budgets, and I do not see how it is going to be different this time around, it would not,” he said.

Omotoso said the proposed budget would also be about creating employment for the young people, and incorporate all of the things that can make youths in the state “to feel being part of this government.”

The commissioner said Governor Sanwo-Olu would ensure that the budget proposal strongly responds to all the social intervention programmes, especially those that have to do with youths, in areas, including technology, education, health, tourism, art, and culture, among others.

“All the social intervention programmes, especially those that have to do with youths will be strengthened, in every area, in the area of technology, in the area of education, in the area of health, in the area tourism, art and culture, and so many of those things that our young people are interested in. So they are going to be well responded to in the budget,” he said.

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