Ekiti To Spend N1.4bn On Amotekun

The Ekiti State Government has earmarked N1.4 billion for the State Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps, in the 2021 fiscal year.

The government has also earmarked N8 billion to social services, health, education, gender empowerment, social security and other sub-sectors critical to the growth of the state’s economy.

Femi Ajayi, Commissioner for Budget, disclosed this on Sunday in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, while presenting the breakdown of the 2021 appropriation law with a budgetary provision of N109.666 billion.

The state governor, Kayode Fayemi, had on December 23, 2020, assented to the budgetary provision christened “Budget of Recovery and Economic Restoration”, comprising N58.4 billion recurrent and N51.6 billion capital expenditures.