Floods: Lawmakers Urge Buhari to Request N100bn Supplementary Budget from National Assembly – THISDAYLIVE

Floods: Lawmakers Urge Buhari to Request N100bn Supplementary Budget from National Assembly •Wants N200bn earmarked in 2023 budget proposal •Directs release of N5bn for 36 states, FCT Udora Orizu in Abuja Following the devastating e

Udora OrizuFollowing the devastating effects of flooding nationwide, the House of Representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to make an urgent request for N100 billion supplementary budget or more from the National Assembly as intervention fund for mitigation, recovery and relieve programmes across the country.

It also mandated its committee on legislative agenda to coordinate a Technical Working Group between the executive and legislature as well as industrial experts and stakeholders to articulate an Action Plan to forestall a repeat of such flood and erosion disaster in 2023 and beyond. He noted that with each passing year, the impact of flooding kept getting worse, with damages to property, dangers to lives of humans and other species, traffic delay, interference with drainage and economic use of lands.

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