Buhari Presents Budgets Of Agencies To Senate

Muhammadu Buhari

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate seeking approval of the annual budgets of 38 agencies and parastatals which were not included in the appropriation budget passed earlier.

In the letter addressed to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Buhari said he had sent the budgets in compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which mandates the president to send the budgets of such agencies to the National Assembly for its approval and urged the senators to expeditiously consider the budgets...

“Further to the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, which provide that the budgets of agencies listed in the Act be collated and forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration, I forward herewith the 2016 budget proposals of the under listed agencies for your consideration and passage, namely: Bureau of Public Enterprises, National Agencies for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Nigerian Shippers Council, National Maritime Authority, Raw Materials Research and Development Council, National Sugar Development Council, Nigerian Postal Service, and Nigerian Ports Authority.

“Others are Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, National Communications Commission, National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), National Broadcasting Commission, National Insurance Commission
News Agency of Nigeria, Nigerian Copyrights Commission, and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

“Also on the list are Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Central Bank of Nigeria, Radio Nigeria, Federal Housing Authority, Nigerian Television Authority, National Automotive Design and Development Council, and Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority”, the letter stated.

The letter also included the National Business and Technical Examination Board, Federal Mortgage Board, National Environmental Standards and Regulations, Enforcement Agency Industrial Training Fund, Corporate Affairs Commission, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, and Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority, as other agencies whose budgets were submitted for the Senate’s approval.