Senate to consider Buhari’s N895.842bn supplementary budget request today

 

By Deborah Hassan

365Daily – The Senate will today begin the consideration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s N895.842 billion supplementary budget request.

This was disclosed by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, during Tuesday, July 6, plenary.

He said the consideration would follow the receipt of the report of the Committee on Appropriation on the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2021.

The Appropriation Committee Chairman, Senator Jibrin Barau, had last week pleaded with the upper chamber to allow the Joint Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives come up with a harmonised report on the supplementary appropriations bill to facilitate its eventual presentation today.

Senator Jibrin in keeping with his request for time extension, finally laid the report yesterday.

President Buhari about two weeks ago transmitted a supplementary Appropriation Bill for N895.842,465,917 billion naira to the National Assembly for consideration and approval. 

He explained that the proposed amount would be used to fund the COVID-19 vaccine programme; fund health related expenditures for treatment of additional 50,000 patients under the Nigeria Comprehensive AIDS Programme in states and procure additional equipment captured in this year’s capital expenditure on Defence and Security to tackle prevalent security challenges across the country. 

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