The Nigerian Senate has explained the 2023 Appropriation bill is laced with errors hence the delay in its passage.
The budget was surprisingly not listed on the Order Paper for Thursday’s legislative activities, as observed by Theliberationnews, against expectations that it would be passed today.
The Senate explained that aside from the errors therein, the Executive Arm of Government submitted the budget proposal very late to the National Assembly.
Before the disclosure by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, the Senators had gone for an Executive Session shortly after the plenary resumed for the day and the closed session lasted for 15 minutes.
In his remarks after the closed session, Lawan said that the 2023 Appropriations bill cannot be passed today as scheduled because the Appropriations Committee could not complete work on the budget report.
Lawan who blamed the Executive arm of government for submitting the budget proposal very late and with errors said that the process of cleaning the errors contained in the Appropriations bill was concluded yesterday (Wednesday).
He added that the two chambers have to harmonize the copy to be able to present the report for passage by both chambers on Wednesday 28th, 2022.
Lawan also assured that the proposed budget implementation will still commence on the 1st of January, 2023
