Lawan Issues Deadline To MDAs For Budget Defence

The Senate President Ahmad Lawan, has issued a deadline to all government agencies for budget defence before the Senate Appropriation Committee.

Lawan noted that it was imperative for all head of government agencies to appear before the Senate’s Appropriation committee to defend their ministry’s budget in order to fast tracked the passage the 2020 Appropriation Bill.

Lawan said this, following the second reading of the 2020 Appropriation Bill as it was immediately referred to the Senate Committee on Appropriations for further legislative inputs.

The President of the Senate who said that all MDAs must defend their budget before end of October said that the Senate had put November 5, as timeline for it to conclude matters relating to budget defence.

According to him, failure to present the budget would amount to the non-provision of funds for them to spend for the 2020 fiscal year, just as he stressed that the Senate would no longer tolerate MDAs who spend funds without appropriation.

Lawan urged the Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC), Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, others to present their budget proposals same time with the present ones and be scrutinized this month.

He however, urged the appropriation committee to work towards ensuring that the set deadline was met.

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