Breaking: Saraki bows to pressure, orders National Assembly Clerk to release budget details

Finally, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has bowed to pressure and ordered the Clerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, to make details of the National Assembly 2019 Budget available for passage into law.
This was contained in a letter addressed to Clerk of the National Assembly, dated March 26, 2019.
Saraki said full details of the National Assembly budget with necessary line items should be made ready for passage as part of the National Budget.
The letter was signed by the Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, titled: “Subject: NASS budget details.”
It reads in part: “The President of the Senate has asked me to request you to please ensure that the NASS Budget Details with all the line items are ready for passage along with the National Budget when Senate resumes next week. Thank you.”
It could be recalled that for some years now, the National Assembly had been running a secret annual budget of over N130 billion without providing line by line items of the budget.