The National Assembly, Tuesday,
approved the payment of the sum of N23.679 billion severance package for
outgoing Senators and Members of the House of Representatives as well as their
legislative aides.
Substantial part of the money is
for the induction and inauguration of Senators-elect and Members-elect of the
9th National Assembly.
The amount was part of the total
sum of N8.907 trillion expenditure approved by the parliament for 2019 fiscal
year.
The amount is N17 billion above
the sum of N8.83 trillion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari to the joint
session of the National Assembly.
From the total sum of N502.059
billion approved for statutory transfers, National Assembly gets N128 billion;
National Judicial Council gets N110 billion; Niger Delta gets N100.189 billion;
Universal Basic Education gets N112.471 billion; INEC gets N45 billion, Public
Complaint Commission gets N4.399 billion while National Human Rights Commission
gets N1.5 billion, respectively.
According to the budget proposal
submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari, N8.83 trillion of the 2019 aggregate
expenditure comprises: Recurrent Costs of N4.04 trillion; Debt Service of N2.14
trillion; Statutory Transfers of about N492.36 billion; Sinking Fund of N120
billion which will be used to retire maturing bond to local contractors and
Capital Expenditure of N2.031 trillion including capital supplementation but
excluding the capital component of Statutory Transfers.
Under the recurrent (non-debt)
expenditure, the Presidency is to get the sum of N33.057 million; Ministry of
Interior gets N564.223 billion; Education gets N463.396 billion; National
Security Adviser gets N86.840 billion; Petroleum Resource gets N67.851 billion;
Foreign Affairs gets N66.107 billion; Secretary to the Government of the
Federation gets N63.400 billion while Agriculture and Rural Development gets
N57.677 billion.
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