President Muhammadu Buhari has slashed the budget of the National Assembly by N14.5 billion, Daily Trust reports.

The federal legislature got N139.5bn in the 2018 budget, but under this year’s budget, the president proposed the sum of N125bn for the lawmakers, representing a reduction of N14.5bn.

A careful look at the proposed National Assembly’s budget showed that the entire N125bn was under recurrent expenditure, with ‎overhead and capital having zero allocation.

The proposal showed no further breakdown of the National Assembly budget.

For many years, there had been no details for the National Assembly budget, until in ‎2017 when the two chambers made details of their budget public following sustained public pressure.

Akelicious recalls that the president had initially proposed the same N125bn for the lawmakers in 2018, but the legislators jerked it up to N139.5bn, a development that did not go down well with the executive arm.

Our correspondent reports that from a budget of N19bn in the year 2000, the National Assembly’s budget ballooned to N150bn at some point.

For four years running, between 2010 and 2013, the National Assembly’s annual budget was N150bn each year, making a total of N600bn for the four years alone.

The lawmakers’ subsequent budgets hovered around N120bn, until Buhari’s ýcoming when he reduced it further to N115bn in 2016, which the lawmakers approved.

The president proposed the same N115bn for the lawmakers under the 2017 budget, but they jerked it up to N125bn, indicating an increase of N10bn.

In 2017, the first and only time the lawmakers made public details of their then N125bn budget, Senators and members of the House of Representatives spent N11.5bn on travel and transport; refreshment – N1.3bn; legislative activities – N21.4bn; vehicles – N6.6bn and consultancy – N5.88bn.

Other spending in their 2017 budget included publicity and advertisements – N3bn; fuel and lubricant – N2.1bn and security equipment – N1.5bn.

In all, the National Assembly spent N85.8bn on overhead, N14.9bn on capital, and N23.7bn for personnel costs in the 2017 budget.

The breakdown showed that the National Assembly management spent N6.7bn on personnel, N6.1bn on overhead and N2bn on capital, which totalled N14.9bn; Senate: personnel N1.8bn, overhead N25bn and capital N4.4bn, total N31.3bn; House: personnel N4. 9bn, overhead N39.6bn, and capital N4.4bn, total N49bn; National Assembly Service Commission: personnel N961m, overhead N1.1bn and capital N309m, total N2.4bn; and legislative aides: personnel N8.9bn, overhead N534m and capital N150m, total N9.6bn.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/01/buhari-cuts-nassembly-budget-by-n145bn.html

LindelEdConsult:
This is a good development.

absolutely correct

Sai baba till all thieves of the national treasury behaves.

Haters no go talk now oooo..

Some E-diots on this https://www.nairaland.com/4935677/2019-budget-buhari-spend-n1bn/1#74377929 are invited here

I think this Sudanese president is the best Nigeria can have. I see no future president that can tackle this bunch of thieves we have in the National Assembly as this man is doing.
Everytime he goes into loggerheads with the members.

Like if you want the National Assembly to be totally scrapped and share if otherwise.

I think this is a good move by PMB. God bless Nigeria

T

The Executives should also cut their budget. There is a greater propotion of corruption in the executive arm than any branch of govt.

#Richdad

if u like cut everything you're going back to daura

It doesn't change anything . He must go back to Daura.
Almajiris, shoe shiners and hard core ZOMBIES will never decide who will rule us.

Impressive

No wonder they shouting "everyone is hungry" hunger kiiii una der.

God Bless Mr president!!
God bless Nigeria !!!!
God bless me too !!

For the first time, I support Bihari on this. But Back to Daura is still a goal

Beautiful...
The cost of governance is too high...
Because of this, I pray PMB wins a second term

Yawn

Back to daura

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Lazy president of Nigeria

Ameachi .. buhari is useless, everyone is hungry, he doesn't listen

Aisha buhari... My husband is useless, he doesn't listen, cabal control his government.

Useless BMC... Sai baba, sai baba

Why won't he slash it, election is around the corner

Buhari belongs in the kitchen, farm and with his gay cows

This dude is a vendetta driven old man.

Buhari never forgets !

When you hear of these billions, you will be asking yourself, where they spend the money.

arimahoseloka:
Why won't he slash it, election is around the corner

u ryt, he'll na use it to rig d election. Go back to bed, it's too early !!!

A man who doesn't read. What did he cut. I want to see them

The lifeless one is trying very hard to showcase his fake Mr. Integrity aura on zombies. He should've slashed the entire asorock budget including his feeding budget and his lifeless travelling budget. Foolish dullard is yet to sell off the presidential airforce one jets he promised to auction off before becoming president. Spits on the zombie below.

OK,
But if I may ask, how much did he approved for JIBIIL , his kitchen or his office where Rat has been occupying for a while now.
Amaechi his Minister for Transport leaked taped has concluded what this govt. has offered to poor Nigeria's.

yrex01:
No wonder they shouting "everyone is hungry" hunger kiiii una der.

God Bless Mr president!!
God bless Nigeria !!!!
God bless me too !!

the person that is shouting it is buhari head of campaign