Nigeria’s Senate says it will pass the 2022 budget tomorrow.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Senate Committee on Appropriations has said its report on the 2022 Appropriation Bill will be laid, considered and adopted on Tuesday.
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Barau Jibrin, made this known while briefing journalists after a meeting with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu.
Yakubu and his team were at the Senate on the invitation of the committee to get INEC’s needs for the 2023 general elections to be captured in the 2022 budget.
Jibrin said, “The presentation and consideration (of the report on the 2022 budget) will be tomorrow. We have been waiting for them (INEC) and they have given the detailed information of what they need.
“We are proceeding to put together our report for onward submission to the plenary tomorrow (Tuesday). We are presenting it tomorrow and it is going to be considered tomorrow as well by the Grace of God.”
Yakubu had earlier told the lawmakers that INEC would need N305bn for the conduct of the general elections as well as off-circle elections scheduled for 2022.
He noted that the 2022 Appropriation Bill had made provision for the sum of N140bn, out of which N40bn is for the regular budget of the commission while the remaining N100bn is for preparation for the elections
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