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Reps deny delaying Budget amendment bill

Wednesday, 03 September 2008

The House of Representatives yesterday denied claims that it was responsible for the delay in the passage of the Budget 2008 amendment bill.

In a chat with reporters yesterday in Abuja, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Ayo Adeseun blamed the delays on the failure of the Senate to act in good faith on earlier agreement reached with the House on the budget. Hon. Adeseun also said it seems as if some Senators are working to frustrate the amendment process.

Adeseun explained that the House had to stay back for extra two weeks to pass the amendment bill last August rather than proceed on recess like the Senate.

He further explained that the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation met with its Senate counterpart and received their input including written submission from the Senate leadership to what the House finally passed.

“In effecting the Amendment the House collected and inputted everything the Senate appropriated by 100%. Nothing was left out. We then embarked on holiday on the belief that there was no longer a need for harmonization. It comes to us now as a shock and embarrassment that somebody in the Senate is talking about delay whereas the House has acted on the budget with dispatch.”

He however said that the House would address the issue appropriately on its resumption from recess on the 9th of November.

The National Assembly had passed the budget earlier in April but the document had faced the rejection of the presidency.

President Musa Yar’Adua had raised objection to certain figures and provision in the budget and subsequently presented an Amendment Bill.

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