This is in fulfilment of promise by President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, that the 8th NASS will publish its 2017 budget.
A breakdown of the estimates shows that the National Assembly gets N14.9bn; Senate N31.3bn; House of Representatives N49bn; National Assembly Service Commission N2.4bn; legislative aides N9.6bn; Public Accounts Committee (Senate), N118.9m; Public Accounts Committee (Reps), N142.7m; general services, N12.5bn; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3bn; and service wide vote, N391.3bn.
“We said we will, and we did,” Saraki said.
The budget showed that the National Assembly has budgeted N125bn as against N115bn in 2016.
While Senate gets a total of N31.3bn, the House of Representatives gets N49bn.
The National Assembly Service Commission gets N2.4bn while the legislative aides get a budget of N9.6bn.
The breakdown further shows that the General services gets N12.5bn; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3bn while the Service wide vote gets N391.3bn.
Following Thursday passage of the 2017 budget, submitted by President Muhammad Buhari, December 2016 by the National Assembly, details of allocations to ministries, Departments and Agencies have emereged.
Recall that a total sum of N7,441,175,486,758 was passed, after the House of Representatives made an additional input of about N140bn in the proposed budget.
Also in the budget, the sum of ₦2,177,866,775,867 is for contribution to the Development Fund for Capital Expenditure (Exclusive of Capital Expenditure in Statutory Transfers), for the year ending on the 31st December, 2017.
The detailed analysis of budgets to the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the federal government, as passed by the House is attached.
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