It has emerged that the House of Representatives increased National Assembly’s budget by N5 billion before passing the 2022 budget.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari proposed N134 billion as statutory transfer to the National Assembly for 2022.
However, the Committee on Appropriations recommended N139 billion to the National Assembly.
The Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Muktar Batera, while presenting the report on the budget had announced the increment of the budget by N730 billion. The National Assembly is one of the beneficiaries of the increment.
It would be recalled that during the debate on the budget, the spokesperson of the House, Ben Kalu protested that the N134 billion proposed by Buhari for the National Assembly was too small.
They have now helped themselves to additional N5 billion in the 2022 budget.
