Browsing: Kwara State Government

Presenting the budget proposal, themed: “Sustained Prosperity” on Thursday, Ahmed stressed that the budget was designed to boost infrastructure, accelerate agro-led wealth creation, create jobs and sustain the state’s development

Ahmed said his administration would complete the second phase of the rehabilitation of the State School for Special Needs while the International Vocational Centre, Ajasse-Ipo would be completed and the first set of students would be admitted during the coming year

Ahmed, who made this assertion on a monthly interactive programme, ‘The Governor Explains’, said: “There is no magic to our been able to remain liquid other than the fact that we have been able to manage our expenditure within our revenue profile.”

According to Ahmed, the state will not only encourage the youths of the state to be groomed at its Youth Farm Centre in Malete, Moro Local Government Area, to go into large scale Moringa farming, but work out a system that will ensure availability of prepared farmland with irrigation system to enhance Moringa and other farming activities in the state