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The National Assembly and Federal Executive Council (FEC) members may have sealed a secret deal to correct the anomalies associated with the N6.077 trillion 2016 budget.
According to The Guardian, under the arrangement, ministers dissatisfied with the distribution of figures within their ministries are to send to the National Assembly the distributions as they prefer them without exceeding the amounts allocated to the various ministries, departments, and agencies under them.
"The arrangement, the executive arm may no longer have to withdraw the budget and re-write it and that what they have agreed on is that the ministers will bring the figures they proposed for their various sub-heads and the lawmakers will appropriate duly without shifting grounds too far from the zero budgeting thrust of the new administration,” a source said yesterday.
Last week, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, had told The Guardian that the issues surrounding the budget confusion were being worked out, though he did not give details.
Source: Guardian
According to The Guardian, under the arrangement, ministers dissatisfied with the distribution of figures within their ministries are to send to the National Assembly the distributions as they prefer them without exceeding the amounts allocated to the various ministries, departments, and agencies under them.
"The arrangement, the executive arm may no longer have to withdraw the budget and re-write it and that what they have agreed on is that the ministers will bring the figures they proposed for their various sub-heads and the lawmakers will appropriate duly without shifting grounds too far from the zero budgeting thrust of the new administration,” a source said yesterday.
Last week, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, had told The Guardian that the issues surrounding the budget confusion were being worked out, though he did not give details.
Source: Guardian
