Budget: Senate gives committees 1 day to submit report

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The Senate has given 20 standing committees yet to submit their budget defence reports to do so unfailingly on Friday.

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, announced the ultimatum at plenary on Thursday.

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki

He listed the defaulting committees as Defence, Army, Air Force, Navy, Industry, Federal Capital Territory, States and Local Government, Culture and Tourism, Petroleum Downstream, Petroleum Upstream and Niger Delta.

Others, according to him, are Sustainable Development Goals; Primary Health Care and Communicable Diseases; Health; Capital Market; Tertiary Institutions and TETFund; Federal Emergency Road Maintenance Agency; Works; Power and Cooperation and Integration.

“I am sorry to have chosen this method. I have no alternative than to list these committees so that these chairmen can know that they are holding all of us…



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