The National Assembly in Nigeria has on Thursday, for the first time, published details of its budget. Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in a series of tweets, said that the “budget breakdown for @nassnigeria has been released.”
“We said we will, and we did,” Saraki, who had promised that the 8th National Assembly will publish its budget, said.
The budget showed that the National Assembly has budgeted N125bn as against N115bn in 2016.
The published 2017 Budget showed that the National Assembly gets N14.9bn.
The Senate gets a total of N31.3bn, while the House of Representatives gets N49bn.
The National Assembly Service Commission gets N2.4bn and the legislative aides get a budget of N9.6bn.
Public Accounts Committee (Senate) gets N118.9m while that of Reps gets N142.7m.
And the General services gets N12.5bn; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3bn while the Service wide vote gets N391.3bn.
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