The Kano State Government has dismissed claims of poor implementation of its 2025 budget, insisting that sectoral performance remains stronger than portrayed in recent media assessments.
Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Alhaji Musa Shanono, told journalists on Saturday that reports describing the NNPP administration’s capital spending as “embarrassingly poor” failed to reflect the full structure of government financing.
Shanono said the widely circulated review focused only on State Treasury–funded projects, excluding counterpart and donor-supported interventions still undergoing reconciliation. He stressed that quarterly budget reports were published within four weeks of each quarter to reinforce transparency.
He said comparative analysis showed that the current administration outperformed the previous APC government across key sectors. According to him, Science and Technology posted a 23.3% capital performance in 2025, up from 9% in 2022, while Education rose to 32.2% from 15.1% in 2022. He also noted Higher Education at 7.7% (zero in 2022) and Health at 12%, compared to 2.5% under the former administration.
Shanono added that several ongoing rehabilitation works in classrooms and hospitals—executed through the Ministry of Works—were not captured in the review despite contributing directly to education and health outcomes.
The commissioner maintained that Gov. Yusuf’s administration remains committed to service delivery and closing inherited fiscal gaps through a more accountable and data-driven budgeting process.
