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BudgIT cautions national assembly against budget padding

The Speaker of House of Reps, Femi Gbajabiamila and President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan According to the BudgiT Foundation Nigeria...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief November 01, 2022
Updated November 1, 2022 at 8:18 AM
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BudgIT cautions national assembly against budget padding
The Speaker of House of Reps, Femi Gbajabiamila and President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan

According to the BudgiT Foundation Nigeria, the National Assembly must take precautions to prevent overspending on the 2023 budget.

This was said on Tuesday by Gabriel Okeowo, the country director for the foundation. He claimed that expanding the 2023 budget proposal beyond the N20.5 trillion that President Muhammadu Buhari had proposed will hurt the nation's economy.

He claims that among other economic difficulties, the economy is already struggling with inflation and rising interest rates.

“The National Assembly should make sure that they streamline the 2023 budget proposal to make it as implementable as possible. From what we have seen over the years, no matter the size of the budget proposal presented to the national assembly, when it is coming out, there would be insertions that would blow it up,” he explained.

Mr Okeowo further stated, “For instance, the president, while assenting to the 2022 budget, said the National Assembly inserted several new projects. So, we have to start now to let the lawmakers know we are following up on the ongoing budget defence by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).”

He added that the legislature should be able to stand its ground to ensure that it cuts down on frivolous items presented by MDAs and that if it would be difficult to reduce borrowing to fund the budget, the federal parliament should then be stringent on items that would form it.

“On the side of the executive, it also needs to sit up because democracy is a system that checks mate itself. If the National Assembly ends up not doing what it is supposed to do, the executive should be able to stand its grounds to return the budget for amendment,” Mr Okeowo stressed. “We should not, for the sake of wanting to sign the budget into law by December, to keep to (the) January-December calendar, mess up the credibility of the budget itself.” 

(NAN)

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