The House of Representatives on Tuesday received the report of the 2017 N7.30 trillion Appropriation Bill from its Committee on Appropriation for final consideration.
The report indicated that the committee increased the budget to N7.44 trillion, representing an addition of about N143 billion to the one presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 14, 2016.
After the receipt of the bill, the House referred it to the Appropriation Committee on January 26, 2017, but its processing suffered delay due to the inability of other committees to tidy their reports in time.
Presenting the report at plenary, the Chairman of the committee, Mustapha Dawaki, said the committee worked with other committees in the House to arrive at the new figure for the budget.
According to the report, N434.4 billion is for statutory transfer, N1.84 trillion for debt servicing and N177.46 billion is for sinking fund for maturing bonds.
The committee appropriated N2.99 trillion for recurrent (Non-Debt) expenditure, while N2.17 trillion was provided for contribution to the development fund for Capital Expenditure.
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