BEVERLY HILLS, April 02, (THEWILL) – Senate President Bukola Saraki has said the Senate says it will pass the 2019 appropriation bill on April 16.
Saraki made the announcement at plenary on Tuesday as he mandated the appropriation committee to submit its report between April 9 and 11 and urged various appropriation sub-committees to submit their budget reports by Friday.
THEWILL recalls that Senator Sonni Ogbuoji, Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations had said some of the sub-committees are delaying the budget process.
“Our report is not ready because some Committees are yet to submit their reports. For now we have less than 10 Committees that have submitted,” he said.
“Any committee that refuses to submit its report by Friday, we will empower the committee to go with the executive’s submission.”
However, Saraki said the upper legislative chamber will suspend plenary for a week go enable the committees tidy up their reports.
“All Committees should submit their budgets by Friday,” he said, before the lawmakers adjourned till April 9.
