The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has has made it know that the 2021 National budget would be presented to the joint session of the National Assembly next week.
This was stated by Lawan after 2hours of secret executive sessions on Tuesday.
Giving a hint on what was discussed upon resumption of plenary after a two-months’ annual holiday, the Senate President explained that the 2020 implementation of Nigeria’s annual budget has been disrupted due to COVID-19 pandemic.
He expressed the readiness of lawmakers to expeditiously deal with the proposed 2021 budget which would be submitted next week, advising that head of agencies of government should make themselves available for budget defence for seamless budget passage.
“As we make effort to attend to the expeditious passage of 2021, I want to advise Chief Executives of agencies of government to make themselves available to defend their budget on time.”
He expressed fears that the impact of COVID-19 against the nation would be devastating if nothing was done to mitigate such, saying that all arms of government should hastily rise to the occasion of ensuring that the economy was prevented from going into recession.
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He furthermore added that Senators have agreed behind close doors that the electoral act be reviewed to ensure free and fair elections.
This will handled in a haste as the house of Senate has seen the lettleness of time.
He also lamented on the high level of insecurity in Nigeria, declaring that lawmakers will attend to the challenge.
“The country is bedeviled with enormous insecurity and the Senate would do all it could to address the ugly trend.”
Senate tells Buhari Earlier: “We want 2021 budget before September”.
When they present it is know my concern but used the budget for the benefit of the citizens