Written by: Ekemini Raymond,
CALABAR- The student union government executive of the university of calabar,led by the president,Mr.Ajang Emmanuel has presented the 2014 SUG budget to the SUG senate. The budget tagged BUDGET OF DEVELOPMENT has a total of over 53 million naira. As part of the budget,the capital project has over 5million naira while the recurrent expenditure has over 45million naira.
Meanwhile,over 3million naira has been budgeted for the students week. One of the surprising figure was the 65,000 naira budgeted for the monthly DSTV subscription, against the 12,000 for the subscription. Reacting on the budget,one of the senators told press men that he was suprised on the exhorbitant prices recorded in the budget. Example according to him was a cost price of broom and detergent budgeted for
100,000.
Meanwhile one of the presidential aid who spoke on the budget attributed the high amount of budget to the cùrrent economic realities. After much scrutuning qnd delibration,the senate president,Senator Iwasam Joshua asked the senate committee on finance to go and look after the budget and present it back to the house.
