Reps adjourn for two weeks to allow MDAs defend their budgets

The house of representatives has adjourned plenary till April 2 over the 2019 appropriation bill.

The lawmakers adjourned after Tuesday’s plenary to give room for government ministries, governments and agencies (MDAs) to defend their respective budgets.

During the two-week period, the various house committees are expected to hold budget defence sessions with the MDAs at the National Assembly Complex.

The lower legislative chamber had passed the appropriation bill for second reading earlier in March while the senate did same on Tuesday.

The budget has a recurrent expenditure of N4 trillion while N2 trillion goes for capital expenditure with N2.2 trillion and N492 billion for debt servicing and statutory transfers respectively.