The senate committee on
appropriations has laid the 2019 budget report.
The report was laid on Wednesday
after Danjuma Goje, chairman of the senate appropriation committee, moved a
motion.
The report ought to have been
laid on Thursday but it was delayed because other standing committees had not
submitted their report to the appropriation committee.
Senate President Bukola Saraki
had given a deadline for the report to be laid last week Thursday and promised
that the budget would be passed by April 16.
However, the delay in laying the
budget report affected the passage of the budget.
Last week, Sunday Ogbuoji, vice-chairman
of appropriations committee, said only 24 committees had submitted their
reports.
“We are still having some
challenges with the sub-committees on appropriations because out of the 61
committees that we have, only about 24 committees have submitted their reports
and we are unable to go ahead and write the appropriation report unless we get
further directive from here,” Ogbuoji said.
It is expected that the budget
will be passed on Wednesday next week when the senate reconvenes from the
Easter break.
President Muhammadu Buhari
presented the 2019 budget estimates to a joint session of the national assembly
in December 2018.
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