NNPC, Customs, CBN, 33 agencies yet to submit 2017 budget

As President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to lay the 2018 appropriation bill before the National Assembly, some 36 statutory bodies have not submitted their 2017 budget proposal to the National Assembly, New Telegraph findings have revealed.

The President had, two weeks ago, forwarded to the National Assembly the 2018- 2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) to both chambers as a prelude to the presentation of the 2018 budget this week.

But with barely two months to the end of the year, New Telegraph investigations revealed that only the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have their 2017 appropriation bill before the legislature.

While the FIRS budget has already passed through second reading, the NAFDAC appropriation was stood down for lack of details at yesterday’s plenary of the House of Representatives.

The agencies whose 2017 budget proposals are being awaited or yet to be passed by the legislature include the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).

New Telegraph, November 1, 2017

 

 

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