CBN Balance: We’ll Reconsider Buhari’s Request But Not Blindly, Says Senate President
He said: “We are already considering that but let me tell you where the problem is. While we are trying to consider and pass the request, we will insist on getting the right documents for our committees to ensure that whatever they advise us to do in the two chambers are based on information and knowledge and not just passing ways and means without knowing what it is.”Speaking on the signing of the 2023 budget, Lawan said: “The signing of the 2023 and three appropriation bill by Mr.
“Secondly, let me also say that the reform in bringing the The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper , the budget, the appropriation bill, the finance bill, I think is a worthwhile development that should be continued. According to him, they believed that the simultaneous implementation of the 2022 appropriation bill including the supplementary and of course the 2023 Appropriation Act, should be done in such a way that the economy of the country is boosted before the next government comes in.
“But that is not to say that, we should raise taxes that will be out of the roof as to cause problem for our citizens. But I believe that as a National Assembly, in the next five months, we must be looking at increasing the funds available to government and also ensuring that deficit budget is minimized in the next assembly by the grace of God,” he added.
“And we have during budget defense, we have ministries, we have departments, we have agencies that come to talk to us. And we look at the reality of ground and what they have before them. And whether or not they can actually, execute their mandate as per their ministries and departments.”
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