Some Civil Society Organisations have condemned the budgetary allocations of N30.1bn for severance packages and the inauguration of the 10th Assembly. The National Assembly on Wednesday increased the 2023 budget proposal from N20.51tn to N21.82tn and passed it, indicating an increase of over N1.3tn against the N20.5tn proposed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, (Retd,), in October. Buhari had on October 7, 2022, presented a budget proposal of N20.51tn to the parliament with a deficit of N10.782tn. He also noted that the 2023 budget would be funded by foreign loans. Under the N967.48bn statutory transfers, the National Assembly Office has N30.492bn; the Senate got N33.267bn; the House of Representatives, N51.994bn; National Assembly Service Commission, N10.555bn; legislative aides, N16.520bn; general services N11.307bn; National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, N7.411bn. Others are: N30.173bn for severance/inauguration of outgoing and incoming 9th a...
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