Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom signed into law on Thursday the N179.5 billion appropriation bill passed by the Benue State House of Assembly on Wednesday.

The fiscal estimate passed by the House includes N106 billion in recurrent expenditure and N73.5 billion in capital expenditure.

Signing the bill, the Governor acknowledged the Benue Assembly’s support, which he said accounted for his government’s successes in all sectors.

He said, “I must also commend the House for the speedy passage of the bill which is the last by our government. We thank the lawmakers for the cooperation we have been enjoying from the legislature which helped us record successes despite the security challenges posed to our state by armed herdsmen from Senegal, Niger, Mali, Central African Republic, Cameroon and others.”

He stated that the Assembly’s various laws became instruments for good governance, peace, and security in the state, emphasizing that the much-loved Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of 2017 would go down in history as one of the laws that distinguished the state.