In a bid to speedily approve the N27.5 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year before the end of the year, the Senate yesterday commenced…

In a bid to speedily approve the N27.5 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year before the end of the year, the Senate yesterday commenced the consideration of the proposals without having the full details.

President Bola Tinubu had on Wednesday presented the estimates to the joint session of the National Assembly, during which he asked the lawmakers to pass the document in 30 days.

The budget passed its first reading in both chambers of parliament when President Tinubu presented it.

A day after the president’s presentation, the Red Chamber began the debate on the general principles of the proposals without getting the breakdown of the estimates, including allocations to different sectors.

Our correspondent observed that the senators before the debate commenced, were only distributed copies of the budget speech and the lead debate presented by the Senate Leader, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele.

This was a deviation from previous budget considerations in the parliament, where the lawmakers were given the breakdown of the budget estimates and convened in plenary to debate its general principles after studying the document.

Senator Kawu Sumaila (Kano) urged his colleagues to suspend the consideration of the budget pending when they were provided with the details.

He said, “We are representing interests here. Where are the budget details? We need to have the bill. We don’t have any idea about the sectoral allocations and what our constituents will be getting. It is very strange in the parliament.”

Also, Senator Mohammed Ogoshi Onawo (Nasarawa) said lawmakers’ contributions to the budget would be limited because there were no details of the proposals except what the president presented on Wednesday.

Senator Binos Dauda Yaroe (Adamawa) also cautioned against rushing the budget consideration, saying the two supplementary budgets earlier passed by the parliament were not scrutinised due to inadequate time.

He noted that “The development led to a series of injustices. We need fairness and equity in the allocation of projects.”

Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, faulted the submissions of his colleagues, saying that the Senate had all it needed to proceed with the budget consideration.

He said, “During the second reading, it is only the merits and demerits of a bill that are debated, not the details.

“By virtue of our Rule 79, we have all it takes to conduct the second reading of the bill.”

Bamidele, while leading the debate, made presentations that were largely based on Tinubu’s budget speech.

He said he believed that all the proposals in the budget were laudable and would enhance the lives of citizens.

Similarly, the House of Representatives on Thursday began consideration of the 2024 appropriation bill presented by President Tinubu on Wednesday.

The consideration and debate on the general principles of the bill followed the earlier presentation of the appropriation bill before the House.

The Majority Leader of the House, Julius Ihonvbere moved for the second reading of the bill and it was seconded by Kingsley Chinda.

In leading the debate Ihonvbere stated that the budget proposal was a reality for looking into critical issues such as the availability of resources, options of funds, the performance of previous budgets, and the percentage of appropriations of available funds for all critical areas.

https://dailytrust.com/senators-reps-consider-tinubus-n27-5trn-budget-without-details/

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In a bid to speedily approve the N27.5 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year before the end of the year, the Senate yesterday commenced…





https://dailytrust.com/senators-reps-consider-tinubus-n27-5trn-budget-without-details/

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This Senate is nothing, but photocopy, worse than rubber stamp. Do men think in Nigeria again, we have become sycophants and docile. No details, just vague number. Yet some imbeciles were singing on you mandates. Shame on us all.

Rubber-stamp of the last Ahmed Lawan led senate go be child's play compared to this one.

How will you be considering something as important and relevant like the budget without the details of it just to play along.

Well one politician said yesterday that Nigerians are not concerned about the budget but with the skyrocketing food prices.

Okay na.

The Emperor is here

There was a country

Indeed

God help us in this country oh 🙏

Okay

The detail will surely follow as every departmental heads may be called upon to defend their proposal ..

If you believe anything Good will come out of this administration then I have two sky scrapers at Mushin to sell to you.

Prepare for the very worst. We haven’t seen the bottom yet.

Everyone is singing the mandate of a drug baron even inside the National Assembly. Lol. We didn’t see this during the PDP administrations. New low for Nigeria.

There’s only one people in Nigeria what connects us is how much we pay for rice, beans, fuel, etc

Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Christians, Muslims, etc are all imaginary connections. The reality is our economic wellbeing.

Therefore the average Nigerian who is not a member of the political class must harmoniously strive to put forward and protect its interests being Good roads, public schools, Affordable public healthcare, Housing, Food etc.

The political class interests is to live in extreme luxury. Buy 160M cars for each member of the National Assembly at the expense of their constituents.

Presidency buying 1.5Billion cars for First Lady. This is why the political class do everything possible to get into office.

Tinubu worse than buhari...
Akpabio worse than lawan

This stamp no even get rubber

Am I surprised?... Hell NO!😂😂
Useless govt of self serving THIEVES and insatiable KLEPTOMANIACS
# the shyyythole🇳🇬 from fry pan to FIRE 🔥💯

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 Nigerians are In for a loooooong ride . Everyone please keep standing on his mandate

Our Nairaland association of pessimists, have they stamped anything?

And in the end, is 30 days not enough to deliberate on the budget and approve it?

How can the masses feel the impact of the budget if it's not passed soon?

It seems the masses are even worse than the crop of the leaders we have!

Charly68:
The detail will surely follow as every departmental heads may be called upon to defend their proposal ..

On your mandate we shall stand

Oti lo my uncle Akpabio is just there to be approving any thing approvable, soon my will approve money for watering flower just like they approve money for clearing grass to minister of agriculture in the last administration...

Rushing to approve the corruption they have cooked for themselves with their trademark rubberstamp stooge mentality. Ndi ala.

iwaeda:


This Senate is nothing, but photocopy, worse than rubber stamp. Do men think in Nigeria again, we have become sycophants and docile. No details, just vague number. Yet some imbeciles were singing on you mandates. Shame on us them all.

I nor follow join Zombies o

Ok Wetin d for do?.. Have they ever done anything unconventional?

D no d give goat yam keep!

Comedy central.

Na statistiques details we go chop

Why won't they consider it without details, when they know their share inside the budget is a must have. Ever since this man seized power illegitimately, he has Been presenting budget upon budget and the Senate house has been approving budget upon budget, yet with all the trillions being approved, no SINGLE thing has been done with the money. I just they pity people were put their hope say this government go better their lives (hahahahajajajajaja, let me help them and laugh small)
The citizens are too foolish to demand where and where all these budgets are being channeled to, oh I forgot no be obi they present the budget lol cowards.

Nigerians should just start getting ready to pay back all these borrow borrow their lord and personal savior is doing, if you don't know how you will pay back, wait till a can of bottle water goes to 450-500, and guess what we will still jubilate, as long as scraps qmd peanut is being thrown to us. Politicians have no problem looting and destroying your future, cus they know that tribalism is already keeping the masses busy.
I curse who curse Nigerians to be the giant of Africa in stupidity.

Oya I know Pablo will insult me or my father or obi that's on his own, that's what they know and will ever know how to do best in nairaland.

Hehehe.

Nigeria na cruise .

The devil is in the details. Give details like
Perfume : N7m
Stove : N30m
Website : N1.3Bn
Pen : N1m

All the bootlickers and mindless acolytes prowling nairaland daily looking for critical thinkers to tag them obidient will hide their boil ridden faces and malnutrition-powered receding hairlines and avoid this thread.