Senate President Ahmad Lawan says
the national assembly is “hungry and thirsty” to receive the 2020 appropriation
bill from the executive.
Lawan said this on Friday while
speaking with journalists in Abuja upon his return from Morocco and Germany.
The senate president said the
national assembly is already in receipt of the medium-term expenditure
framework (MTEF) and fiscal strategy paper (FSP).
“We are hopeful and optimistic,
as well as hungry and thirsty, to receive the 2020 appropriations bill,” he
said.
“I am aware that the executive
arm of government is working assiduously to ensure that the appropriation bill
for the year 2020 is presented to the National Assembly by the end of this
month.
“The national assembly will work
so hard to ensure that the 2020 budget is passed before we go on Christmas
break.
“We hope to take on the MTEF
within the first legislative week. Our committee on Finance will be saddled
with its first major responsibility that it works expeditiously on the Fiscal
Strategy Paper/Medium Term Expenditure Framework’s request of the executive arm
of government and thereafter the budget will come after that.”
Lawan said the national assembly
would work with the executive to tackle insecurity in the country.
“In the eighth senate, we had an
ad hoc committee that I was privileged to chair, to review the security
architecture of the country,” he said.
“We are going to look into that
report, and in addition, other contemporary issues that affect security in the
country. We are also going to look into the crisis that affected Nigerians
living in South Africa.
“You recall that this issue was
reviewed before we went on recess. The Senate felt as an institution that our
citizens’ diplomacy must be protected wherever they go in the world.”
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