President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received details of the 2016 Appropriation Bill from the National Assembly.
The chairmen of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, Danjuma Goje and Abdulmumin Jibrin respectively, had on Wednesday, submitted the budget details to the clerk of the National Assembly for onward transmission to the president.
The document was jointly delivered to the Presidential Villa by the Senior Special Assistants to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang and Kawu Sumaila, at about 12:05pm on Thursday and was received by the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, who signed on behalf of the President in his office.
The minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, was also present to receive the document.
Enang confirmed in a chat with journalists that the document had finally been transmitted. “We have transmitted it to the office of the president and the constitutional process of timing starts,” he said.
The 2016 budget, submitted by the president on December 22, 2015 before a joint session of the National Assembly, was approved on March 23, but only the highlights were transmitted to the president, who had insisted on not signing the budget until after critical review.
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