The federal government has budgeted N134 billion for the
national assembly in the 2022 appropriation bill.
The amount is the highest annual allocation ever proposed by
the executive for the national assembly since the present administration came
into power in 2015.
Checks showed that from the 2016 budget till
that of 2021, the highest amount allocated so far has been N128 billion, which
was in the 2021 appropriation bill.
A total of N115 billion was proposed in 2016 and 2017,
respectively; N125 billion in 2018; N128 billion in 2019, and N115.2 billion in
2020.
The federal government had proposed N128 billion as
allocation for the national assembly in the 2021 fiscal year, but the lawmakers
increased it to N134 billion.
There are concerns that the national assembly may further
increase the statutory allocation in the 2022 budget proposal.
There have been public debates over the huge salaries and
allowances earned by federal lawmakers over the years.
Each senator gets as much as N13.5 million as running cost
covering all their allowances, while a member of the house of representatives
gets N8.5 million for same.
This is notwithstanding that as of 2020, close to 83 million
Nigerians lived in poverty, while the country’s unemployment rate hit a new
record high at 33.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Other items captured in the statutory transfers of the 2022
budget proposal show that N120 billion is earmarked for the National Judicial
Council (NJC).
A total of N140 billion has been budgeted for the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while the National Human
Rights Commission has N4.5 billion.
In the budget, N8,690,000,000 is proposed for the Public
Complaints Commission (PCC); the Universal Basic Education (UBE) is allocated
N108,101,599,701; the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has
N46,171,690,315, while the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has
N98,711,726,326.
Meanwhile, a proposal of N54,050,799,850 has been earmarked
for the basic health care fund, while the National Agency for Science And
Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has been allocated N54,050,799,850.
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