Budget will be ready for president's assent next week

Budget will be ready for president's assent next week - Saraki

Bukola Saraki, the president of the Senate, has announced that all the grey areas in the 2016 budget have been finally resolved.

Saraki said this on Tuesday, April 26, while speaking with journalists after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.

The president met with the leadership of the National Assembly as part of efforts to resolve the 2016 budget impasse.

Saraki told journalists that the lawmakers informed the president of the solutions they had found to the budget impasse, and both sides agreed on the way forward.

“We just finished a meeting with the president and the vice-president. We came to let them know some of the solutions that we found in moving the budget process forward and we are happy to say that we have agreed on the way forward.

“We believe that this process will be completed in matter of days rather than weeks.

“So, it is good to Nigerians and all of us, we have found a way forward and in a matter of days, the budget will be ready for the president’s assent,” he said.

The Senate president revealed that special committees had been set up on both sides to hasten the process. He added that the committees would meet over the next few days to “tidy up a few loose ends and here and there and the outcome will be satisfactory to everybody.”

Speaking about the meeting and its outcome, Udoma Udo Udoma, the minister of budget and national planning, also confirmed that the Executive had agreed with the Legislature to resolve all grey areas in the budget.

“We have agreed to work together to resolve all issues in the next few days and we have also agreed on the modalities of or doing so.

“It was a very good meeting and it was very positive; within the next few days, all issues will be resolved.

“We are working together, both the Executive and the Legislature, to sort those things out. Within the next days, all matters will be resolved,” he said.

Ahead of the meeting, Femi Adesina, the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, noted that Buhari would not sign the 2016 budget in a rush. He stressed that the president would only sign a budget that would “do good to the maximum number of Nigerians.”

Source: Naij.com

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