Speaking after the bill’s Executive approval on Friday, said the sum of N202, 641, 558, 614.46, which he recently presented to the House for consideration and approval, was brought to him for assent after a thorough review.

Mohammed said: “We really appreciate the proficiency, the efficiency and of course, the competency of the House to be able to go through all this voluminous document and the synergy established between the Executive and the Legislature.

“We appreciate that we are doing this thing together and we will forever remember that there was a time when the House and the Executive were always doing things together.”

The bill was signed by the Governor alongside the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) bill, which was passed into law but returned to the assembly to amend some grey areas, a bill seeking the establishment of a State Penal Code, and a bill for law to provide the Administration of Criminal Justice.

Earlier speaking, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Abubakar Sulaiman said in exercising the constitutional powers bestowed on them, the Assembly has scrutinised all the bills sent to them, which have been passed to law and are ready for his assent.