Reps approve N373m take-off grant for NASS Library Trust Fund
Appropriation Act 2022/2023 be vired to the recurrent account of the National Assembly Library Trust Fund as part of the initial take-off grant.
The House also approved that N118m appropriated for the National Assembly Dashboard in the Federal Government budget should also be vired to the recurrent account of the NASS Library Trust Fund. The approval was sequel to the unanimous adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved by a member of the House, Jonathan Gbefwi, at the plenary on Tuesday.
The motion was titled, ‘Urgent Need to Vire the Sum of N255,000,000 and the Sum of N118,000,000 appropriated for the National Assembly E-Library and Dashboard, Respectively, in the 2022/2023 Appropriation Act to the National Assembly Library Trust Fund as Take-Off Grant.’ Gbefwi noted that the National Assembly Library Trust Fund was established by the National Assembly Library Trust Fund Act, 2022, for the provision of state-of-the-art library equipment and other related facilities, for the retraining of legislators and staff of the National Assembly and for the enhancement of the research skills of the legislature in the handling of process of law making.
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