2020 APPROPRIATION BILL: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FIXES DATE FOR PASSAGE
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| Senate President Ahmed Lawan. |
The senate president,
Ahmad Lawan has announced the date for the passage of the 2020 Appropriation
bill.
In a series of tweets
earlier Tuesday, Lawan disclosed that the National Assembly was working towards
the passage of the 2020 Appropriation bill and has fixed the date for November
28, 2019. He said he has directed the Senate Committee on Appropriations to
submit its report on the 2020 budget proposals on November 26, 2019.
“The National Assembly is
working towards the passage of the 2020 Appropriation bill on November 28,
2019. To this end, I have directed the Senate Committee on Appropriations to
submit its report on the 2020 budget proposals on November 26, 2019.
“All the committees have
done their work so well within the defined parameters and we, therefore, expect
the Appropriations Committee to produce the report and lay it here by the 26th
of November, next two weeks,” he twitted.
He noted that he believed the same thing would be done in the House of Representatives to enable the
two chambers pass the Appropriation Bill 2020 on the said date.
It will be recalled that
President Muhammadu Buhari, who was accompanied by members of the Federal
Executive Council on Tuesday 8th October, 2019, had presented the
2020 budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly.
In the proposed budget, the
Federal Executive Council had proposed N10.007 trillion for the financial year
but the figure was increased to N10.33 trillion by the National Assembly.
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