N6.2 trillion supplementary budget will be used to pay minimum wage, others – FG
The Federal Government has said the proposed N6.2 trillion supplementary budgetary will be used to pay the new minimum wage. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu disclosed this while addressing the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriation in Abuja on Monday, July 22.
He said that the funds would be spent on stimulating the economy through the implementation of various infrastructural projects. He said the N3.2 trillion capital component of the supplementary budget is meant as addition funding for priority projects in road, rail, water, irrigation and dam projects in the 2024 fiscal year.
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According to him, the proposed ‘Renewed Hope Infrastructural Fund’ was intended to provide equity contributions or counterpart contributions of the federal government projects designated as priority projects as well as critical projects which needed more appropriation so that they will not suffer neglect.
There had been a called by some group of Nigerians to stage a protest against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration citing hunger and hardship in the country.
