The Senate on Tuesday approved
the security budget of N53.2 billion for the 2019 general elections.
The approval of the budget
followed a presentation of the report of the National Assembly Joint Committee
on Appropriation at plenary.
The Senate further approved that
the money be vired from both the recurrent and capital components of the
Special Intervention Programme captured in the Service Wide Vote of the 2018
Appropriation Act.
Presenting the report, the
Chairman of the committee, Sen. Danjuma Goje, said that the committee members
met and agreed to approve the budget of security agencies as part of the budget
for the 2019 elections.
“The committee, having considered
the report of its sub-committees on INEC Security and intelligence, interior
and police affairs in respect of the provisions for INEC, NSA, DSS, NSCDC, NIS
and NPF, approved request by President Muhammadu Buhari for passage,” Goje
said.
The report showed the amount
Buhari had requested for each of the agencies as follows: Office of National
Security Adviser (NSA) (N4.3 billion) and Immigration (N2.6 billion).
Others are Department of State
Security (DSS) (N12.2 billion), Nigeria Police Force (NPF) (N30.5 billion),
National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) (N3.6 billion).
However, the Senate approved N9.5
billion for NSA, N2.6 billion for Immigration, N10.2 billion for DSS, N27.3
billion for NPF and NSCDC, N3.6 billion.
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