In First-Time Move, NASS Publishes Details of Its 2017 Budget

Hamilton Nwosa
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The National Assembly has published the details of its 2017 budget for the first time ever, after calls by Nigerians to disclose figures of its often secretive spendings.

According to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, this was in fulfilment of the promise made by the 8th assembly to publish its 2017 budget to boost public trust.

The New Diplomat gathered from the Senate President in series of tweets on Thursday, using the NASS twitter handle, @nassnigeria, where he said the “budget breakdown for @nassnigeria has been released.”

“We said we will, and we did,” Saraki said.

A paper containing the summary of the proposed 2017 NASS budget

The budget showed that the National Assembly had raised its budget to N125bn as against N115bn in 2016.

A summary of the Proposed 2017 Budget showed that the National Assembly gets N14.9bn.

While Senate gets a total of N31.3bn, the House of Representatives gets N49bn.

The National Assembly Service Commission gets N2.4bn while the legislative aides get a budget of N9.6bn.

Also, Public Accounts Committee (Senate) gets N118.9m while that of Reps gets N142.7m.

The breakdown further shows that the General services gets N12.5bn; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3bn while the Service wide vote gets N391.3bn.

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