Chairman, Senate Ad- Hoc
committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Dino Melaye, APC, Kogi West, at a
media briefing, has explained that the stepping down of the report was done in
order to carry the House of Representatives and other organs of the National
Assembly along.
According to him, the budget of
the Senate was not independent of the entire National Assembly
“The Senate today, in closed door
session, discussed the report of the ad hoc Committee on finances of the
Senate, and after due deliberations by the senators, we came to the conclusion
that since the budget of the Senate is not independent of the budget of the
National Assembly, where the budget of the House of Representatives is also
inclusive.
“We have the management, we have
the NILS, we have even the Public Accounts, we also have the National Assembly
Civil Service Commission, we have agreed that we should consult amongst other
arms that share the budget of the NASS, with the House of Representatives
before we would draw a conclusion on the report. So, the resolution is that we
are going to interface with the House of Representatives so that we can be on
the same page on the report as presented. This is the resolution of the Senate
today in closed door session’
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