Senate Reintroduces Bill For NASS Budget Office

– The ninth senate reintroduced a bill seeking to establish NASS budget Office

– The Bill which scaled first reading was sponsored by Sen. Rose Oko (PDP)Cross River

– The proposed National Assembly budget office will report annually to the Senate and House of Representatives

 

The Ninth Senate, led by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has reintroduced a Bill seeking to establish the National Assembly Budget and Research Office (NABRO).

At plenary, the Bill which scaled first reading was sponsored by Sen. Rose Oko (PDP)Cross River.

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The Bill was initially introduced on the floor of the 7th Senate under Senate President David Mark, and sponsored by the Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba at that time.

Ekohotblog garnered that the idea to establish the National Assembly Budget Office was first conceived in 2005 under the Senate Presidency of Sen. Ken Nnamani, but failed to materialise at the floor of the upper chamber.

The proposed National Assembly budget office will report annually to the Senate and House of Representatives with all items funded in the preceding financial year for which no appropriation was made by the National Assembly.

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The office is to be headed by a Director-General, who shall also report to a governing board made up of a chairman and six members and shall provide independent and continuous review of the Federal Government budgets including monitoring of existing and proposed programmes.

Provide independent unbiased analysis of the budget of the National Assembly and assist all the committees of the National Assembly in developing their annual budgets.