The vice chairman, Senate committee on media and publicity, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce said the $1 billion approved by President Muhammadu Buhari for the purchase of arms to fight insurgency and other security challenges facing the country cannot be spent until the National Assembly gives its approval.

Bruce told journalists that the power to make such approval is not in the hands of the President and that the money will not be released without approval by lawmakers.


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