Like others, NASS reviewed the 2024 budget upward—Doguwa
Alhassan Doguwa, a member of the House of Representatives, stated that the National Assembly had reviewed the 2024 budget, which President Bola Tinubu had just signed.
This was said by Doguwa, who is the Kano State representative for the Doguwa/TudunWada Federal Constituency, during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
In the 2024 budget, he claims, the budgets of other government agencies were also evaluated upward, not just the National Assembly.
The President presented the National Assembly with a budget for 2024 that was ₦28.7 trillion instead of the original ₦27.5 trillion.
The House Committee on Petroleum Upstream Chairman, Doguwa, reported that lawmakers also increased the budgets of other agencies, including the Ministries of Defense, Police Affairs, Agriculture, and Health.
The member stated, “Mr. President’s budget for NASS was somewhat less than what we ultimately enacted into law.
“Of course, we also reevaluated budgeted funds for other government agencies like the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Police Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Health for very obvious operational and institutional reasons.”
Doguwa pointed out that the National Assembly’s budget was intended for more than just the elected members; it also covered other organizations that comprised the government’s legislative branch.
He declared: “It is not for the 360 members of the House of Representatives and the 109 senators in the Senate.
The organizations, agencies, and sectoral creations that make up the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s National Assembly are covered by a comprehensive, lump sum budget known as the National Assembly budget.
