Buhari Sends Budget back to the National Assembly

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Buhari Sends Budget back to the National Assembly

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 The 2016 appropriation bill has been returned to the National Assembly by President Muhammad Buhari for the third time. It was gathered that the president had picked quarrels in the re-worked budget and returned same to the National Assembly for further legislative work. It was reliably gathered that the re-worked budget was sent to the President at about 1.15 am, yesterday, but was returned to the National Assembly at about noon, yesterday. It was also gathered that principal officers and members of the review committee from both legislative chambers met, yesterday, at about 3.20pm till about 5.30pm in the Senate wing to reconsider the observations made by the President on the budget. A source close to the committee confirmed that the budget was actually submitted to the President but that he refused to touch it due to some issues he was not comfortable with. He said,  ”˜The budget got to the State House at about 1.10 am  and Mr. President went through it early this morning (yesterday) and still had some issues with some of the figures. ”˜I cannot tell you exactly what it was but I think the insertions made by the lawmakers were not significantly altered. You know the lawmakers had moved some allocations for key projects that are dear to the President to other areas, especially to their constituency projects. ”˜Of course, they have changed some but I believe Mr President is not satisfied with the reconciliation they made. I think this is one of the reasons it was returned.’ He also disclosed that the President would assent to the budget today should the lawmakers make all the corrections and transmit the document to him. 

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