Senate asks Buhari to submit 2020 budget
The Senate has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive to ensure that the 2020 Appropriation Bill was ready before the federal lawmakers resume from their current recess towards the end of September.
Both the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, have been canvassing the country’s return to the January-December budget cycle.
Lawan specifically told all the ministers-designate, after their confirmation hearing last week, to cooperate with the federal parliament with a view to ensuring speedy submission, consideration and passage of the annual fiscal document, once they were inaugurated.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, told our correspondent in an interview that the federal legislators are prepared to start work on the 2020 Appropriation Bill immediately they resume in September.