The National Assembly has raised the 2017 appropriation bill by over
N143bn, up from President Muhammadu Buhari’s original proposal of
N7.298tn. The new figure of the budget is now N7.441tn.
This came to the fore on Tuesday when the Senate received the report
on the 2017 budget from its joint committees of Appropriation and
Finance.
The Chairman of the Appropriation committee, Senator Danjuma Goje, laid the report before the upper legislative chamber.
The document was supposed to be presented on
Thursday but it was postponed to this week to enable the committees of
appropriation in the Senate and House of Representatives to make final
edits.
The Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, had told newsmen last week that “They
are meeting with the house committee on appropriation to cross the Ts
and dot the Is of the 2017 budget by harmonising and I have also been
informed that by the grace of God, the budget 2017 will be laid on
Tuesday”.
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