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The House also concurred on the oil benchmark of $42.50 per barrel with a proposed daily production of 2.2 million barrels per day.
Consequently, the House had mandated its joint committees on Finance, Appropriation, National Planning and Economic Development, Legislative Budget and Research and Aids, Loans and Debt Management to further scrutinise the document

Akpabio pleaded to senators not to reject the document based on unrealistic projections of the proposal by the Presidency.‎
‎He said further, “We can see that we don’t have a perfect document in our hands but of course we are looking at assumptions and assumptions may not necessarily be correct. I want to suggest that we send it to the committee

Though he did not give the projected total expenditure for the government, Udo-Udoma talked about the revenue projection for the 2017-2019 MTEF.
He said: “A significant increase in non-oil revenue receipts is projected due to a gradually recovering domestic economy and government’s expected improvement in FIRS tax collection efforts