Members of the House of Representatives in Nigeria have lauded the 2025 budget proposal presented by President Bola Tinubu, highlighting its significant increase in funding for key sectors like defense, infrastructure, health, and education.
Some members of the House of Representatives have expressed satisfaction with the 2025 Appropriation Bill of N47.9 trillion presented to the joint session of the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday. DAILY POST reports that in the 2025 budget, the sum of N4.90 trillion was allocated to Defence, N4.06 trillion to infrastructure, N2.48 trillion to health and N3.52 trillion to education, among others.
The legislators, in their separate reactions after the presentation of the budget, described the budget as a ‘huge improvement’ on the 2024 budget. The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Rep. Benson Babajimi, APC-Lagos, said if well-implemented, the budget would meet the expectations of Nigerians. ‘Its very ambitious, a huge improvement from last year’s budget. It shows the president is bold and a reformist. He wants to connect Nigeria with rail and roads; the Sokoto-Badagry expressway project is a game changer; that of Lagos-Calabar is a game changer as well. There is a huge improvement in security, budget, health and education. That shows somebody who has a mission and a vision. The renewed hope infrastructure fund he spoke about also will take us to the next level. So we believe that it is a good budget, and he has prayed for cooperation from the national assembly. To ensure that, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has emphatically said that we will ensure that the budget is ruthlessly implemented; so we are hoping for a renewal of hope in 2025,’ he said. Similarly, Rep. Abubakar Fulata, APC-Jigawa, said all the assumptions in the budget were very satisfactory, except in a few areas. According to him, the over N15 trillion set aside for debt servicing out of the entire sum was not very impressive. He further stated that the current price of crude oil was hovering between $73 and $74 per barrel, with the budget predicated on $15 dollars per barrel ‘Already, we have a deficit of about $1.5 in each barrel’
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