The House of Representatives yesterday resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate what it called “the Non-Implementation of Capital Projects as Contained in the 2015 Appropriation Act; Federal Government Budget and Serial Breach of the Fiscal Responsibility Act by the Federal Ministry of Finance.”
The House’s decision followed a motion on the matter moved on order of privilege by Patrick Asadu (PDP, Enugu), seeking to investigate the extent of budget implementation and its effects on the nation’s economy.
Asadu’s grouse was that the breach constitutes a threat to the effective representation of his constituency.
He noted that sections 80-83 of the 1999 Constitution clearly stipulates how monies belonging to the Federal Republic of Nigeria can be kept and spent, and clearly vests in the National Assembly the powers to appropriate monies for expenditure by government.
SOURCE: LEADERSHIP
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