The Delta Directorate of Transport says it recorded a revenue of N146.6 billion between January and October 2024 as against N55.4 billion recorded in 2024.
The Commissioner for the directorate, Mr Onoriode Agofure disclosed this while defending the directorate’s 2025 budget before the House of Assembly Committee on Transport on Thursday in Asaba.
Agofure said that the figure represented 163.9 per cent.
He noted that the increase was through the engagement of consultancy services on behalf of the directorate.
The commissioner also disclosed that the directorate’s 2025 budget would focus on the policy thrust and objectives of the current administration.
On some of the highlights of the 2025 budget, the commissioner said that the directorate was earmarking the sum of N250 million for road traffic and warning signs.
Agufure also said that the directorate was embarking on construction/rehabilitation of jetties in the state.
He noted that the jetties when conpleted would help to boost the infrastructural development of the rural areas.
Responding, the Chairman of the Committee, Mr Festus Okoh said that the budget defence meeting was one of the oversight functions of the Assembly.
Okoh (PDP-Ika South) urged the directorate to see the meeting as a friendly interaction where the members of the committee and the management of the directorate could rob minds.
”We are not here to witch hunt anybody and we are not here for tales, but we are here for you to give us figures,” he said. (NAN).
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