Posted on: 09:26 Thu, 24 Mar 2016



The Presidency on Wednesday
commended the National Assembly
for passing the 2016 Appropriation
Bill.

The Special Adviser to the President
on National Assembly Matters
(Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, told
newsmen at a press briefing in
Abuja that the expeditious
consideration and passage of the
bill was laudable.

He further commended the Senate
and House committees on
appropriation as well as the sub-
committees for working hard in
ensuring that the budget was
passed.

“I followed the entire process and I
have seen the industry that has
been exhibited by the senators.

“I want to say that we appreciate
particularly the fact that in the
course of consideration, the
committee chairmen, the committee
members and the chairmen of
appropriation committees were in
constant touch,’’ he said.

The special adviser further
commended the legislature for
approving the harmonised version
of the Medium Term Expenditure
Framework(MTEF) and Fiscal
Strategy Paper(FSP), adding that
they were the parameter for
passing the budget.

Enang also extolled the media for
extensive coverage of the process
leading to the passage of the
budget.

President Muhammadu Buhari
presented the 2016 Appropriation
Bill to a joint session of the
National Assembly on Dec. 22,
2015.