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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said the House will do everything possible to ensure easy passage of the proposed 2017 budget to avoid a repeat of the mess that happened with the 2016 budget.
The Speaker said the lawmakers are working round the clock to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari overcome the current challenges and even come out stronger.
Dogara stated this while addressing a round-table on the N7.29trillion budget proposal, organised by the All Progressives Congress, APC Governors in Abuja on Monday.
“I must say that the APC as the party with majority in the National Assembly will not allow Mr. President and the APC as the ruling political party to be humiliated or defeated on its budget priorities as we are all part of the same government,” he said.
Dogara also insisted they were very sensitive about constituency matters irrespective of party affiliation.
“It is however, important to stress that on budget matters members of the National Assembly tend to be very sensitive to their constituency representational functions, irrespective of party,” he said.
He promised that the passage and implementation of the budget would be transparent.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the 2016 budget was marred with several controvercies that revolved around padding the budget with several items and figures that were not in the originals as presented by the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government.