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2020 Budget Will Be Passed Before End Of December- Lawan
– President of the Senate, Ahmad lawan said that the senate will pass the 2020 Budget before December 31
– The national assembly committees were ready to receive ministers and other heads of agencies for the budget defence
– We have earmarked the month of October to be the sole window for all budget defence activities in this year by all MDAs
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has called on Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to appear before Committees of the Senate this month to defend their voted in the 2020 Budget.
Lawan made this statement at the presentation of the budget by President Muhammadu Buhari to a joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday.
President of the Senate said that the national assembly committees were ready to receive ministers and other heads of agencies for the budget defence.
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“We have earmarked the month of October to be the sole window for all budget defence activities in this year by all MDAs.
“Our committees will be expected to conclude their work on budget defence within October 2019.
“The subsequent necessary legislative work will be carried out in November and December leading to eventual passage before December 31,”he said.
Lawan said: “This function being the first in the Nineth National Assembly, makes it even more significant as both the legislature and the executive have demonstrated readiness and commitment to work together in order to pass the 2020 budget in a good and desirable time.
“Clearly, this effort is to enable the Federal Government provide those laudable objectives of physical infrastructure and socio-economic services to our citizens.”
He further said that the public and the private sectors needed a reliable and predictable budget cycle for the planning and execution of fiscal and financial policies and programmes.
“It is therefore, necessary that the present cycle is changed to January-December.
“In this regard, the national assembly and the executive must work together to ensure the realisation of the important objective.
“Both chambers of the national assembly have constituted their committees, we are therefore, ready to start processing the budget.
“The National Assembly will treat the 2020 budget with the same commitment or even more.
“In our effort to pass the budget, we will also be guided by the legislative requirement of a thorough scrutiny,” Lawan added.
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