Sen. Ita Enang, Special Adviser
to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), said
submission of 2018 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly in October was
sacrosanct.
Enang gave the assurance when he
appeared at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja, and said that
the Federal Government was committed to the deadline.
He said that the government was
working assiduously to ensure that the deadline was complied with to take the
country back to the annual budget cycle of January to December.
According to him, different
Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have made their budget inputs and
submissions to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.
“The ministers are already
appearing before the ministry and defending their submissions.
“It is intended that in the next
few days they would have completed the exercise and have the total of the
budget as well as get ready with the final draft.
“Everything is being done to
ensure that we keep to the date,’’ Enang said.
He added that in presenting the
2018 proposal in October, “the national assembly will consider it between
October and November and by December it would have been passed.
“The current budget will end in
12 months and having been signed on June 12, 2016, the budget is legally to run
between June 12, 2017 and June 12, 2018.
“But the intention of the
government is to make sure that the implementation date and assent will be for
January 1, 2018 so that we will return the budget to the conventional
January.’’
NAN
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