President Muhammadu Buhari will on December 1 present the
2017 budget before a joint session of the National Assembly, the Senate
disclosed Wednesday.
This disclosure was made by the Minority Leader, Godswill
Akpabio, at the conclusion of the debate on 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework
(MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) Wednesday.
Taking into cognisance the vehement criticism of the
document by senators as well as submissions by senators that the document
should again be returned to the executive, Akpabio said doing so would be
counter productive in view of the planned presentation of 2017 budget on
December 1.
Akpabio therefore urged his colleagues to rather send the
document to relevant committees with its flaws and leave such committees with
the task of addressing the flaws.
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