NASS set to transmit 2016 budget details to President
National Assembly
Succour
might soon come to Nigerians as the details of the 2016 budget is set
to be transmitted to the President to facilitate his assent to the
appropriation bill.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would not sign the appropriation bill unless the details of the budget are attached.
Buhari has promised to go through the details” line by line” as soon as he receives it.
The Chairman of the House committee on Appropriation, Hon. Abdulmunin Jibrin Wednesday conveyed the details of the N6.06 trillion budget to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa at precisely 4:54pm.
The budget has been plagued with controversy from the time it was submitted to the National Assembly.
It was however passed on March 23 after an almost three months delay yet lack of details further elongated the delay.
The details are expected to be picked from the office of the Clerk of the National Assembly by both Special Advisers to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang and his House of Representatives counterpart, Abdulrahman Ismaila Kawu.
Jibrin’s counterpart from the Senate, Danjuma Goje was conspicuously absent. He was however said to have been sighted at the Code of Conduct Tribunal where the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki is undergoing trial for false declaration of assets.
Jibrin while speaking with reporters as he left the CNA’s office said: “Yes we have just submitted the details of the 2016 appropriation bill to the Clerk of the National Assembly for onward transmission to the executive arm of government.”
On it there were surprises in the details, he said: “Well I don’t know what you mean by surprises. Of course you know the challenges that the budget came with, again we have gone through that over and over.
“But even with that, we were able to put all our hands on the table and we have been able to do a lot of cleaning up exercise and working 15,16,17 hours every day and yes we have done the very best we can.
“But we continue to plead with Nigerians for their understanding. We do know what is going on, we share their pains. And we are also living in this country. We just want Nigerians to understand that this year, it’s a different budget. We have not had such a challenging budget before.”
The lawmaker said like every other years the National Assembly has made its own inputs into the budget.
“Of course you know we have worked on the details and when I was coming in, I tried to answer some questions whether there were inputs? Of course, there were inputs of lawmakers on the details.
“You are faced with what the executive arm of government want or what the lawmakers want but the case of the appropriation committee is to find a middle ground between both.
“But I think the budget we just signed off with my colleague in the Senate, to the best of our knowledge, is an implementable budget and to a large extent, we believe that it properly aligns with the policy thrust of the government.”
On what was the next line of action, he said: “Of course, we have done our own part, the budget will be transmitted to the president and so we keep our fingers crossed.
“The presidential advisers of the National Assembly will come over to pick the details, I have called both of them and there are aware that the details are ready.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would not sign the appropriation bill unless the details of the budget are attached.
Buhari has promised to go through the details” line by line” as soon as he receives it.
The Chairman of the House committee on Appropriation, Hon. Abdulmunin Jibrin Wednesday conveyed the details of the N6.06 trillion budget to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa at precisely 4:54pm.
The budget has been plagued with controversy from the time it was submitted to the National Assembly.
It was however passed on March 23 after an almost three months delay yet lack of details further elongated the delay.
The details are expected to be picked from the office of the Clerk of the National Assembly by both Special Advisers to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang and his House of Representatives counterpart, Abdulrahman Ismaila Kawu.
Jibrin’s counterpart from the Senate, Danjuma Goje was conspicuously absent. He was however said to have been sighted at the Code of Conduct Tribunal where the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki is undergoing trial for false declaration of assets.
Jibrin while speaking with reporters as he left the CNA’s office said: “Yes we have just submitted the details of the 2016 appropriation bill to the Clerk of the National Assembly for onward transmission to the executive arm of government.”
On it there were surprises in the details, he said: “Well I don’t know what you mean by surprises. Of course you know the challenges that the budget came with, again we have gone through that over and over.
“But even with that, we were able to put all our hands on the table and we have been able to do a lot of cleaning up exercise and working 15,16,17 hours every day and yes we have done the very best we can.
“But we continue to plead with Nigerians for their understanding. We do know what is going on, we share their pains. And we are also living in this country. We just want Nigerians to understand that this year, it’s a different budget. We have not had such a challenging budget before.”
The lawmaker said like every other years the National Assembly has made its own inputs into the budget.
“Of course you know we have worked on the details and when I was coming in, I tried to answer some questions whether there were inputs? Of course, there were inputs of lawmakers on the details.
“You are faced with what the executive arm of government want or what the lawmakers want but the case of the appropriation committee is to find a middle ground between both.
“But I think the budget we just signed off with my colleague in the Senate, to the best of our knowledge, is an implementable budget and to a large extent, we believe that it properly aligns with the policy thrust of the government.”
On what was the next line of action, he said: “Of course, we have done our own part, the budget will be transmitted to the president and so we keep our fingers crossed.
“The presidential advisers of the National Assembly will come over to pick the details, I have called both of them and there are aware that the details are ready.”
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