Rivers State Executive Council has approved its 2018 budget for presentation to the state House of Assembly.

Addressing journalists after the first State Executive Council meeting for 2018, the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Emma Okah, said the council extensively discussed the drafts of the 2018 budget from all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

He said modalities had been concluded for the formal presentation by the state governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on the floor of the Assembly.

He said the council frowned at the situation where some communities failed to protect public infrastructure.

He said communities that allowed government infrastructure to be destroyed would face the consequences.

Okah added that communities that failed to protect contractors executing projects would lose such projects.

He said Governor Wike assured that the administration would continue  to deliver  quality projects and programmes that would improve the lives of Rivers people.