Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has revealed that
the 2021 National budget would be presented to the joint session of the
National Assembly next week.
Lawan stated this on Tuesday after over two hours’ executive
session behind close doors.
Giving a hint on what was discussed upon resumption of
plenary after a two-months’ annual holiday, the Senate President explained that
the 2020 implementation of Nigeria’s annual budget has been disrupted due to
COVID-19 pandemic.
He expressed the readiness of lawmakers to expeditiously
deal with the proposed 2021 budget which would be submitted next week, advising
that head of agencies of government should make themselves available for budget
defence for seamless budget passage.
“As we make effort to attend to the expeditious passage of
2021, I want to advise Chief Executives of agencies of government to make
themselves available to defend their budget on time.”
He expressed fears that the impact of COVID-19 against the
nation would be devastating if nothing was done to mitigate such, saying that
all arms of government should hastily rise to the occasion of ensuring that the
economy was prevented from going into recession.
More so, he revealed that Senators have agreed behind close
doors that the electoral act be reviewed to ensure free and fair elections.
According to him, the chamber has taken note of time
constraints in view of the general election, hence it would be treated with
dispatch.
He also decried the high level of insecurity in Nigeria,
stating that lawmakers will attend to the challenge.
“The country is bedeviled with enormous insecurity and the
Senate would do all it could to address the ugly trend.”
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