The Speaker House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on
Tuesday gave Friday deadline to committees yet to submit report of 2017 budget
to the Committee on Appropriation to do so.
Dogara gave the deadline at plenary and said that there was
urgent need for the House to conclude work on the 2017 Appropriation Bill.
He said that any committee that failed to meet the deadline will
face the consequences.
According to him, the affected Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of
committees should endeavor to submit their reports latest March 30 to enable
the Appropriation Committee hasten the process of passing the 2017
Appropriation Bill.
Spokesman of the House, Rep. Abdulrazak Namdas, had on March 16,
told newsmen that March 30 deadline set by the National Assembly for the
passage of Bill was not sacrosanct.
Namdas had explained that the inability of the lawmakers to meet
the deadline was due to the new software being used in the process.
According to him, the new software is slowing down the work of
the Appropriation Committee.
“The new budget software is different from what we used to have
before and it is slowing down the process of the Appropriation Committee,’’
Namdas added.
(NAN)
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