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Presenting the budget tagged budget of Economic Resilience, Masari said it was higher than the 2020 figure by N48 billion. He said that the budget was made up of N102 billion recurrent expenditure, representing 30.40 per cent and N238 billion capital expenditure, representing 69.85 per cent. “The 2022 budget is designed to complete ongoing projects and initiate other capital projects that can be completed within the life of this administration. “The total amount projected to finance the 2022 budget is N175 billion which comprises of N61billion Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) from the State Board of Internal Revenue and other MDAs. “The revenue receivable through the federation account is estimated at N100 billion with an opening balance of N12.5billion. “It is important to note that the recurrent revenue increased by 8.6 per cent over that of the 2021 revised budget,” Masari said. He said that the 2022 recurrent expenditure has also increased by 8.63 per cent which indicated that in real terms the revenue would increase by about 8.60 per cent over that of 2021.