The speaker of the House of
Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, July 1, urged the executive arm
of government to present the 2020 budget to the National Assembly by the
September 2019.
Channels Television reports that
Gbajabiamila said this when he received Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the
Government of the Federation (SGF), at the National Assembly.
According to the speaker,
presenting the budget early would give members of the Senate and the House of
Representatives three months to scrutinize and pass it.
This means that if the budget is
presented in September 2019, the National Assembly could pass it by December
same year so that it could run between January and December 2020.
It was learnt that Boss Mustapha
also met with the president of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan.
Recall that Gbajabiamila recently
said the running of the House would no longer be business as usual, as he
pledged to introduce drastic reforms.
The speaker, who was elected
speaker on Tuesday, June 11, said in his inaugural speech that he would
introduce his planned reforms in piecemeal.
“This is going to be a House of
reforms, we will be dishing out those reforms in piecemeal. It will not be
business as usual.
“There comes a time in the life
and history of a people when they interrogate the past and present, review past
sacrifices, miscalculations and errors and collectively decide to opt for
change, peace and progress," he said
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