President Muhammadu Buhari presented the N20.5 trillion budget to the National Assembly on Friday.
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading the N20.5 trillion Appropriation Bill for 2023.
Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase , who presided over the plenary had earlier stated that the House had agreed to debate the bill for two days. He, however, appealed to members to allow the debate to be done within a single legislative day. Several members who spoke on the budget expressed concern over the parameters of the budget, the surging debt profile, recurrent components of the proposed estimates and fuel subsidy provision.
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