- The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, highlighted that the National Assembly’s budget has remained stagnant since 2010
- He noted that despite inflation, the budget has not seen an increase, impacting the institution’s operations
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, revealed that the National Assembly’s annual budget has been stagnant since 2010 despite inflation and its consequences.
According to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, Abbas spoke when he met with an African Business Roundtable delegation in Abuja yesterday.
“Our budget has been stagnant for 13 years, but our expenditure has increased during that time,” he explained. The National Assembly budget has been reduced from what it was in 2011,” he told the delegation led by the Executive Director (West Africa), Dotun Ajayi.
He stated that the 10th House had established “over 60 parliamentary friendship committees to strengthen the House’s relationship with other parliaments worldwide.”
Ajayi had earlier stated: “We’re proposing an engagement between you and your members for a partnership between you and the EU as well as the French parliament.”