The Senate says it will pass the
2019 appropriation bill on April 16.
Senate President Bukola Saraki,
who made the announcement at plenary on Tuesday, mandated the appropriation
committee to submit its report between April 9 and 11.
He also urged various
appropriation sub-committees to submit their budget reports by Friday.
The senate just resumed after it
had adjourned for two weeks to enable government ministries, agencies and
parastatals defend their budget before the various committees.
Sonni Ogbuoji, deputy chairman,
senate committee on appropriations, said some of the sub-committees are
delaying the budget process.
“Our report is not ready because
some Committees are yet to submit their reports. For now we have less than 10
Committees that have submitted,” he said.
“Any committee that refuses to
submit its report by Friday, we will empower the committee to go with the
executive’s submission.”
Saraki said the upper legislative
chamber will suspend plenary for a week to enable the committees tidy up their
reports.
The suspension of plenary, he
said, was also in relation to the death of Muhammed Dantani, a former member of
the house of representatives who died last week.
“All committees should submit
their budgets by Friday,” he said, before the lawmwkers adjourned till April 9.
The N8.82 trillion budget has a
recurrent expenditure of N4 trillion while N2 trillion goes for capital
expenditure with N2.2 trillion and N492 billion for debt servicing and
statutory transfers respectively.
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