President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the 2021
supplementary appropriation bill of N983 billion into law.
Umar El-yakub, senior special assistant to the president on
national assembly (house of representatives), announced this while briefing
state house correspondents after the signing.
He said a total sum of the supplementary budget assented to
is N982,729,695,343, noting that the supplementary budget will be largely
focused on funding security and health concerns.
The assent by the president is coming a month after the
federal executive council approved the supplementary budget for the year 2021.
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, had said the budget contains an aggregate sum N770.60 billion to further enhance the capacity of the defense and the security agencies to address current and emerging security challenges in our country.
Ahmed said a total of N83.56 billion expenditure is set
aside in the budget for COVID-19 vaccine programme, covering 30 million
vaccines from Johnson and Johnson and the logistics costs related to the
deployment of the vaccines.
The budget also has N40 billion provision to take care of
the needs for allowances to the health, education sectors and other wage
related issues.
Ahmed had added that the supplementary also had N1.69
billion for the Nigeria Comprehensive AIDS programme.
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