The House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation says the 2022 Budget proposal will be laid on the floor of the House on December 14.
the Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, Hon. Muktar Betera disclosed this, on Thursday, in Abuja, while meeting with members of the committee.
He said that the committee was proposing to lay the budget by December 14 and consider it on December 15.
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He urged members to ensure a critical oversight on the committee assigned to them, adding that they must ensure that they did a clean work as against 2021 budget defence.
He said that members would be reassigned to committee other than they supervised in 2021 budget defence.
He added that the committees would have to report back to the Appropriation Committee within two weeks, adding that there would be guidelines for every committee.
The last budget really had some issues, committee must work within their budget.
On the issue of recurrent, he said that the committee would be more careful, adding that no money will be taken from capital to recurrent or recurrent to capital.
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He explained that except where it was necessary, but the committee must justify where they needed the money for either recurrent or capital, so the committee could look for other ways.
“We have to guide the committees on capital, there will be guidelines, we have to be very serious and work within the guideline. We have some issues in the last budget.
“When it comes to budget especially on legislatures we have to look at agencies within that budget. No one with be allowed to take budget where they should not be.”
He said that the committees only had two weeks before the budget would be passed.
