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Nigeria will have spent over N1.799 trillion on the National Assembly in 13 years by the end of 2023, with the parliament jacking up its budget for next year by N30 billion, Sunday PUNCH has learnt.

From 2011 to 2022, the annual budgets of the National Assembly cumulatively amounted to about N1.630 trillion, while the parliament is billed to spend N169 billion in 2023.

The federal bi-cameral legislature proposed a budget of N169 billion in the 2023 Appropriation Bill presented by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on October 7, indicating that the parliament jacked up its current budget by N30 billion.

The political arm of the National Assembly has the Senate and the House of Representatives with 109 and 360 members, respectively, while the administrative arm has the National Assembly Management headed by the Clerk to the National Assembly, and the National Assembly Service Commission.

The Office of the President of the Senate had in 2018 published some details about the N139.5 billion budget for the year. Out of the N139.5 billion, the sum of N26,483,039,299 was spent on personnel cost, N93,302,013,406 on overhead, N119, 785,052,705 on recurrent expenditure, and N18,569,804,041 on capital expenditure.

A further breakdown showed that the Senate got N35,582,085,699, while the House spent N57,425,137,793.

The National Assembly Office spent N15,389,235,912; the National Assembly Service Commission, N2,736,081,266; and the National Assembly Institute of Legislative Studies, N4,373,813,896.

Others were legislative aides, N10,202,095,928; general services, N12,384,672,079; service-wide vote, N1,145,143,245; and public account committees, N118,970,215 and N142,764,258 for the Senate and House, respectively.

The parliament has had the following budgets since 2011: 2011 to 2014, N150bn; 2015, N115bn; 2016, N125bn; 2017, N125; 2018, N139.5bn; 2019, 125bn; 2020, N128bn; 2021, N134bn; 2022, N139bn; and N169bn proposed for 2023.

The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kalu, had repeatedly claimed that the National Assembly, which has been widely criticised as expensive to run, was underfunded.

While critics believe federal lawmakers are overpaid, the House’s spokesman had argued that their pay was lower when compared to the volume and critical nature of their work.

“The truth remains that if the cost of governance must be reduced, it is on the executive. I am not mincing words. Look at the nominal rolls; you will see strange things happening there. So, if we really want to clean our house, it starts with the executive. I want to challenge Nigerians to start looking at the executive and stop looking in the wrong direction,” Kalu had on November 12, 2020, said.

Again on March 11, 2021, he said the National Assembly was underfunded to function efficiently and effectively as a national parliament. He also decried that the paucity of funds had made the working environment not conducive for lawmakers while they had not been able to carry out their legislative activities to the best of their ability.

Meanwhile, ministries of the Federal Government plan to spend over N2bn on sewerage charges, cleaning and fumigation, as well as refreshments and entertainment in 2023, with another N631m on cleaning and fumigation in the coming year.

In the 2023 Appropriation Bill laid before a joint session of the National Assembly by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on October 7, the ministries proposed various sums totalling N1,011,508,548 for sewerage. This figure does not include estimates proposed by departments, agencies and corporations supervised by the ministries and statutory bodies.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the highest allocation to sewerage charges with N916,721,440, followed by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning with N15,000,000; Ministry of Health, N17,204,836; Ministry of Mines and Steel, N11,500,000; Ministry of Works and Housing, N10,367,742; Ministry of Environment, N5,000,000; Ministry of Defence, N4,750,000; Ministry of Justice, N4,730,745; Ministry of Interior N4,540,931; Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, N4,142,657; and Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, N3,710,600.

The same ministries budgeted a total of N631,244,181 for cleaning and fumigation services.

Again, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the biggest budget in this category with N92,637,090, followed by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment with N50,766,985; Ministry of Water Resources, N50,000,000; Ministry of Health, N48,797,602; Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, N44,000,000; Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, N38,595,715; Ministry of Education, N36,400,000; Ministry of Defence, N32,937,058; Ministry of Environment, N28,679,850; and Ministry of Niger Delta, N25,941,536.

Meanwhile, the ministries are to spend a total of N352,153,213 on refreshments and entertainment in the coming year.

Topping the list of big spenders in this category is, again, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with N114,178,533, followed by the Ministry of Information and Culture, N27,995,749; Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, N26,156,222; Ministry of Education, N25,800,000; Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, N24,550,000; Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, N22,466,558; Ministry of Police Affairs, N22,423,550; Ministry of Labour, Employment and Productivity, N18,377,030; and Ministry of Defence, N13,440,000.

Source: https://punchng.com/FG-spends-N1.8tn-on-NASS-in-13-years

I was trying to make a pop corn and I got this I have no choice than to eat it with little groundnut

Hmm apapin

They have already Booked their Spaces In Hell And that's where they will all burn

Wicked Politicians...Burn! Burn!! Burn!!!

We need to phase out the NASS.
They are leeching on us .

A perfect example is Sen Dino melaye

1.8trillion naira,
For doing nothing

Omg,
Even Putin will even be shocked
See,let's be sincere among ourselves,
Both PDP and APC have failed us woofully.
For una wey dey support them,dis hardship no dey affect Dem ooo
Their fuels are free(our tax)
Cars free(our tax)
Health free(our tax)
Feeding free(our tax)
Security free(our tax)
Vacation free(our tax)
Children's allowance free(our tax)
Private jet maintainace (our tax)

So,u wey dey support them,
Whc one are u benefiting from d above mentioned?

Nothing,
Absolutely nothing,
And u go carry APC and pdp matter for head

I beg make we still try LABOUR PARTY na,
If LABOUR FAILS,

THEN LET US ALL BE READY FOR REVOLUTION

I don promise my God say make he provide money for me make i take buy rugged AK-47 riffle

E get why,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0cocjYP6ec
Okonkwo, a veteran Nollywood actor, said Peter Obi has already won the elections according to polls conducted by independent bodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZtikJMBinY
As campaigns for the 2023 general elections enter full gear, a prominent member of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said that it is a no-contest for LP’s flag bearer, Peter Obi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ratv56BjpEU
In an interview on Channels TV, Okonkwo, a veteran Nollywood actor, noted that Mr Obi has already won by polls conducted by independent bodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNFT_JG4Oo
In September, the ‘Living in Bondage’ actor made headlines when he said the presidential candidates of the PDP and APC, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, should step down for Mr Obi.

In a recent interview, Okonkwo said the results of three polls conducted by the Anap Foundation, We Together and Bloomberg show that Mr Obi is progressively taking the lead.

“In the first one, he scored 23. In the second one, he scored 53, and in the third one, 75.

“Soon and very soon, before the election reaches when the two candidates would unravel, and I’m sure they are already unravelling, it will now be Peter Obi and others. Because then collectively in the poll, they will not have up to five per cent,” he said.

Peter Obi’s turn
Speaking, the ‘Living in Bondage’ actor said the two other main contestants, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are playing sectional politics.

18 billion on nass only?


Nigeria is a big joke

Ok ooo

Tinubu is died

We finally managed to ask Goliath his side of the story, he says it was a gun not a stone.

Running a luxurious government style at the expense of the citizens.

Wow!

Wasteful...these are the things APC promised to change but 8 years after, no change. Now they're bringing a refurbished 80-page manifesto. Please keep your manifesto. We no want. Our votes are for Peter Obi.

Constituency projects scam


Only Nigeria would a Lawmaker also start constructing projects

Listening to 'the small people's mind' by Beautiful Nubia


Awon Kan n sun sabe gutter, awon kan n kole Jo bi isu...

...Few people take all the wealth, poor people bears all the pain, small people look to the sky, when will it be out turn

jungle republic

Government of waste.

Wawu

Dikaveli:
Tinubu is died

Are you alright?

Lies! Jubril regime alone spent more than that.

If they were earning 1m at most monthly
They wud face their jobs

Hmm

Those people are the real problem of Nigeria.

Imagine!

And yet still they have increased their salaries this year! Monkey de work baboon de chop

I talk am

Theunbothered:
National Assembly I can get paid millions for doing nothing.

If the FG says it's N1.8tr, it's definitely more than that!

They've been lying to us since 1960.

You can see why they don't have money to pay Lecturers because they are paying people who don't do anything but sit down or don't even attend sittings in the chambers compared to professors who work almost round the clock doing research and all...

It is well