As part of efforts to encourage the agricultural sector for steady food supplies as well as accommodate daily income earners, Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has pledged to remodel priorities in the State’s budget as the Government plans to readjust its 2020 budget.
He was speaking in view of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and its socioeconomic impact that requires deliberate social investments that would directly or indirectly assist vulnerable citizens to survive the challenges that come with the pandemic.
The governor who spoke as a special guest at a public affairs talk show aired on Channels Television, disclosed that in order to achieve the noble objectives, the state’s economic team under his supervision would ensure that social investment becomes one of the focal points of the readjusted 2020 budget.
Source: Business Day
