‘No secrecy in National Assembly budget’

Wakili, who spoke at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, explained that the assembly’s budget had always been captured in the Appropriation Bill usually presented by the president. He said in recent time, the National Assembly budget had been on decline following the economic recession facing the country. “It is part of the national budget presented by the president. Some six years ago, the budget of the National Assembly was constant at N150 billion. “Two years ago, because of the exigency of the Nigeria state, where there was no fund, the 7th Assembly, before it left, had to cut the budget to N120 billion from N150 billion. “Last year, that is the 8th Assembly, our budget was N115 billion and it was captured in the Federal Government budget. “Out of this N115 billion, we have the House of Representatives, we have the Senate, we have 365 members of House of Representatives and 109 senators. “Then, we have the bureaucracy of the National Assembly in terms of the staff, from the Clerk to everybody. “We also have the Nigeria Institute of Legislative Studies, the National Assembly Service Commission, with the paraphernalia of its staff. “All of us take from this N115 billion. So, I don’t know where the issue of secrecy is,’’ he said. On constituency intervention projects, Wakili said it was a lump sum provided by the Federal Government, which went across the states and the geo-political zones. He said the total sum of the projects was not more than N60 billion, explaining that each geo-political zone took N10 billion, which was further sub-divided, depending on the number of states within each zone.]]>

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