July 06, (THEWILL) – The Senate will on Wednesday consider President Muhammadu Buhari’s N895.842 billion supplementary budget request.
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made the disclosure on Tuesday during plenary after the lawmakers received the report of the Committee on Appropriation on the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2021.
The consideration of the request from the Executive by the Senate is an indication that the supplementary budget would be passed tomorrow.
The Appropriations Committee Chairman, Senator Jibrin Barau, had last week pleaded with the Upper cham tober to allow the Joint Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives come up with a harmonised report on the Supplementary Bill to facilitate its eventual presentation today.
Senator Barau in keeping with his request for time extension finally laid the report on the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2021 before the Upper Chamber during plenary on Tuesday.
Buhari had about two weeks ago transmitted a Supplementary Appropriation Bill for N895,842,465,917 to the National Assembly for consideration and approval.
He explained that the proposed amount would be used to fund the COVID-19 vaccine programme; fund health related expenditures for treatment of additional 50,000 patients under the Nigeria Comprehensive AIDS Programme in states; and procure additional equipment captured in this year’s capital expenditure on Defence and Security to tackle prevalent security challenges across the country.
