Finally! Senate reveals why 2018 budget has not been passed

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- The Nigerian Senate has said that no date has been fixed for the passage of the 2018 budget

- Senator Sa'abi Abdullahi said the eight assembly made the resolution to lift the embargo on the confirmation of presidential nominees

- According to him, the Senate will ensure that it will support the executive in ensuring Nigeria gets out of recession totally

The Senate on Tuesday, March 13, said there was no date yet for the passage of the 2018 budget.

Senate’s spokesperson, Senator Sa’abi Abdullahi, said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja.

He said: “The budget process is on and I can’t tell you this is the specific date it is going to end. We are working very hard on it and we want to assure Nigerians that at the end of the day, we will have a budget that will serve the purpose of Nigerians.”

On the upper chamber’s resolution to lift embargo on confirmation of presidential nominees, the lawmaker said: “there was an existing impasse between the executive and the legislature with respect to confirmation hearing of appointees of the executive.

“We had a resolution that since the executive is claiming we don’t have the powers to make those confirmations we are not going to consider the nominees they are forwarding to us. This happened since last year”.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report that the Senate, after a Point of Order by Senator Rafiu Ibrahim (APC-Kwara), lifted the embargo.

According to Abdullahi, the Senate made the resolution “not that they have any iron to grind with anybody.

“But because we believe we must defend the sanctity of democracy and ensure the institutions of democracy, for which the Senate is the apex, must be respected and we believe in doing so, it is in the overall interest of the people," Abdullahi said.

He further explained that the upper chamber resolved that it would consider the confirmation of members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

“We will also consider the nomination of the two deputy governors of Central Bank (CBN) who are also members of the MPC so that the Nigerian economy will receive the necessary technical input to ensure that we sustain the growth of our economy.

And to also ensure we support the executive in walking the economy out of recession.

“We are definitely going to do the confirmation to enable those confirmed to attend the next MPC meeting,” Abdullahi said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report that the MPC meeting is scheduled to hold on Monday and Tuesday, March 19 and 20.

NAIJ.com earlier reported that a former governor of Nasarwa state, Abdullahi Adamu, accused lawmakers on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform of sabotaging the effort of the present government.

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Adamu said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is not getting much support from the legislature.

The former governor also said it is unfortunate that lawmakers of the APC are major among those sabotaging the executive.

Source: NAN

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