{"id":14336,"date":"2015-06-10T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14336"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:20:47","slug":"imo-assembly-dissolves-with-passage-of-n124m-appropriation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14336","title":{"rendered":"Imo Assembly Dissolves With Passage OF N124m Appropriation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14337\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMHAA.jpg\" alt=\"IMHAA\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMHAA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMHAA-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Onyinyechi Anakaulo<br \/>\nThe Imo State House of Assembly on June 4th held a special valedictory session, as part of its activities marking the termination of the seventh House.  The Seventh Assembly is expected to usher in the eight House that would be inaugurated on Wednesday,  June 10, 2015.<br \/>\nAddressing  the  House while making  his Valedictory Speech, Speaker Imo State  House  of Assembly,  Rt  Hon  Benjamin Uwajumogu commended efforts  of  the assembly  in ensuring that  the seventh  house of  the  state&#8217;s assembly was  instrumental  to  the good  governance recorded by Gov. Rochas  Okorocha&#8217;s administration noting that  good governance is measured  by  the  positive  impact  on the  governed.<br \/>\nThe out-going Speaker  Uwajumogu  further  stated  that  the  outgoing house  also achieved  legislative  excellence   within  the  last four-years in the state, having   Okayed  a  four  year capital budget  (rolling budget)  for  the  governor which  facilitated the  Rescue Government  Monumental achievements  in  the area of  massive road construction  and  infrastructural development among  others  in  the  state.<br \/>\nSpeaker  Uwajumogu  however commended all outgoing honourable  members  of  the  House  of  Assembly  for  their unrelenting efforts  towards the sustainability of democracy via legislative excellence  in  the state, even as  he welcomed  the  incoming state lawmakers as well  as  urged them to sustain  the  tempo  of  good  governance,  using  the  legislature  as  the  pillar  of  democracy.<br \/>\nIn the same vein. The state House  of  Assembly  passed a bill for  a  law  to  appropriate the sum of N124,590,324,395 (one  hundred  and twenty  four  billion, five  hundred  and  ninety million, three hundred and twenty four  thousand, three hundred and ninety five naira) to  the service of the government of Imo State  of Nigeria  for the year ending on December 31th, 2015,  and for  other related purposes.<br \/>\nConsidering the bill for third reading  as passed during committee of the whole house,  the  House informed  that  the  budget  excludes  the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) charges  of N18.724.170.603 (eighteen billion, seven hundred  and  twenty four million one  hundred and seventy  thousand, six hundred  and  three  naira only) hence a   total  budget of  N141, 219,133,849 (one  hundred and  forty  one  billion, two hundred and  nineteen million, one  hundred  and  thirty  three  thousand eight hundred  and  forty  nine  naira only.  The appropriation bill awaits Governor Okorocha&#8217;s assent.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyinyechi Anakaulo The Imo State House of Assembly on June 4th held a special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14339,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions\/14339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}