The annual budget of the House of Representatives should be doubled to meet the current operating realities and purchasing power of...
The annual budget of the House of Representatives should be doubled to meet the current operating realities and purchasing power of the national currency, Chairman of Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Rep. Benjamin Kalu has said.
He said “I have said it that the work load of the House is bigger than the amount allocated to it. From outside, when you view the activities of the House, you may not understand the enormous work here. It takes one participating to be able to have a clear view, understanding and observation of what plays out here.
“By the time you see a large responsibility, do you stop to the detriment of Nigerians who really want to know the truth in those investigations, or do you keep going? If you keep going, who funds it? Nigerians want to have a transparent, accountable House of Representatives, but there is no money in the budget for us to tell our story by ourselves.
Asked what comes to the House from the N125 billion budgeted for the National Assembly, he said “You know that the N125 billion is going to be divided by the tripod which I always refer to regarding how the National Assembly works. That is the Senate, House of Representatives and the management. “If we don’t have work to do, how would you have known that NDDC has not presented their budget, but doing extra budgetary expenses? Nigerians need to embrace the work we are doing here.
“If our purchasing power is half of what it used to be, it means that to bring us to balance, we should double what we have now to be able to purchase what we used to purchase because what the House has now cannot purchase what they purchased twenty years ago.
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