Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, says President Muhammadu Buhari may present the 2023 budget to the national assembly in October.
Gbajabiamila disclosed this on Wednesday during the
inspection of the ongoing renovation work on the green chamber, as well as the
construction of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) office.
According to NAN, he said the president will present and lay
before the two chambers of the national assembly, the proposed N19.76 trillion
budget for the 2023 financial year next month.
“I am hoping that the budget will be presented latest by the first week of October,” he said.
On the ongoing national assembly renovation, the speaker
said the temporary chamber will be ready for use when the house resumes from
its two-month recess next week Tuesday, September 20, 2022.
He said the 10th assembly would most likely be inaugurated
in the temporary chamber, except the project managers would be able to complete
the renovation of the main chamber months before the scheduled deadline.
“You see that the old chamber has been ripped apart. The
innovations are going to be state-of-the-art. We will at the end of the day be
proud to have a chamber that matches the best standard all over the world. I am
quite impressed with the work so far,” he said.
“I will encourage
them to double the pace. Because as it is, unfortunately, or fortunately, this
is not for the benefit of the 9th assembly, it is for the benefit of the 10th
assembly.
“The old chamber is not going to be ready until sometime in
August 2023 so we are talking about close to a year. But so far so good, we are
happy and this temporary site is where we will be sitting for the next nine or
10 months. It is honestly a far cry from where we used to be but they have done
well in adapting.
“The 10th assembly is most likely (taking off here) unless
work can be accelerated but we don’t want to accelerate work and compromise the
quality of work. So it is better late but done well, everything worth doing is
worth doing well.”
Speaking also at the construction site, Bassey Etuk, NASC
commissioner, said the 400-capacity building was pegged at the cost of N11.6
billion.
“This project is the
permanent site of the NASC and the reasons we are moving here are various:
security, proximity to the service targeted functions,” he said.
“Here we have enough space, we are presently at an occupied
rented apartment and here we cater for all our needs.”
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