An Uyo-based NGO had in a statement described the Akwa Ibom 2018 budget proposal of N651.5 billion as “the most bloated budget in the history of the state” and demanded that it should be reduced “because the performance of the capital budget in the past years had been unimpressive.”
Akwa Ibom State government has rejected insinuations from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that its 2018 budget is bloated and over ambitions, saying such allegation is misleading considering the current exchange rate of the country’s currency against the dollars.
An Uyo-based NGO had in
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