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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