The senate appropriations
committee failed to lay the 2019 budget on Thursday despite the deadline set by
Senate President Bukola Saraki.
Saraki had given the target after
which he announced that that the budget would be passed on April 16.
He had asked the appropriations
committee to ensure that the report was laid on Thursday and also directed
other other committees to turn in their report to the appropriations committee
to enable it tidy its own report.
The presentation of the report
was not listed on the order paper on Thursday and no explanation was given.
On Tuesday, Sunday Ogbuoji,
vice-chairman of appropriations committee, lamented that only 24 committees had
submitted their reports to his committee.
“We are still having some
challenges with the sub-committees on appropriations because out of the 61
committees that we have, only about 24 committees have submitted their reports
and we are unable to go ahead and write the appropriation report unless we get
further directive from here,” Ogbuoji had said.
With the current development,
it’s not certain that the senate will meet the April 16 deadline for passing
the budget.
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THIS IS WHAT WE GET WHEN OUR LEADERS ARE SO MUCH INTERESTED IN POILIC THAN NIGERIAN INTEREST. THEY CLOSED DOWN THE CHAMBER BCOS OF ELECTION.
ReplyDeleteTHE BUDGET HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THEM SINCE NOVEMBER 2018....I THINK
COLLECTING SALARIES AND ALLOWANCE FOR DOING NOTHING...…..SELFISH AND HEARTLESS LEADERS.