“The outcome of this meeting will form an input into the work that we are doing, which will subsequently, be confirmed by the National Assembly.”
Both Chambers of the National Assembly Thursday set aside their procedures of official acknowlegement of communications from the Presidency in their Hallow Chambers before any consideration or deliberation at the committee level .
He said : “Now that the bill to amend the 2020 budget has been submitted to the National Assembly, we decided to strengthen the collaboration of consistent engagement with the executive arm of government so that by the time we go into the full activity of processing the bill, we would not have any major disagreement.
“We don’t have enough revenues coming in and there are series of problems coming up , which can best be addressed by drastic review of the earlier passed N10.596trillion budget “. “The consultation is a work in progress but until the document is laid in the National Assembly which we hoped in no distance future would be unfolded and we would have the full grasp of what is contained in the document before we can make any major pronouncement concerning the what the MTEF / FSP and the revised 2020 Appropriation Act “, he said .
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