The chambers of the National Assembly, the Senate and the
House of Representatives, yesterday, passed a total sum of
N574,532,726,857 as supplementary budget for President
Muhammadu Buhari for additional Recurrent (Non- Debt)
Expenditure for the year ending on December 31, 2015 to be
withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the
Federation.
With N109 billion approved by the Senate for fuel subsidy,
the total would now amount to N522,258,934,505 as the
President, in the letter to the Senate, had requested for N413
billion for fuel subsidy.
Also N5,000,000,000 was approved as Victims Support
Funds in the Capital Supplementation which would be re-
classified to the Service Wide Vote of N559,217,800,017.
The Senate also approved the sum of N29,958,865,512 to
fight the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East and
payment of outstanding claims in order to reduce the
suffering of Nigerians under the heading, Operation Zaman
Lafiya. The Nigerian Army will get N17,468,992,640;
Nigerian Airforce, N8,141,434,760; Nigerian Army
outstanding balance from 2015 and second quarter,
N4,348,438,112.
The approval of the Senate was sequel to the report of the
Senator Danjuma Goje-led Committee on Appropriations on
the 2015 Supplementary Appropriation Bill.
Earlier, the senators broke into an executive session for one
hour as part of moves to discuss the appropriation bill and
give the President a soft landing by passing the budget and
as a follow up to last Thursday’s dinner the Senators were
with the President where collaboration and synergy among
the Executive and Legislature were emphasized.
Vanguard
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