SENATE Leader, Ali Ndume, disclosed yesterday that the N6.07 trillion 2016 budget will be passed in March.
In an interview with NAN, Ndume gave March as the deadline for the implementation of the 2015 budget, saying it was even the desire of the Senate to pass the 2016 budget before that time.
He refuted reports claiming that the Senate had suspended the budget passage indefinitely, adding February 25 “may not be feasible”.
He said it was the wish of the national assembly to pass the budget five weeks before the expiry of the period set for the implementation of the 2015 budget, but that was impossible due to some errors.
“We have not postponed it indefinitely; we are saying that with the developments that we are seeing as the time goes on, the 25th February deadline we gave ourselves may not be realistic,” he said.
His counterpart in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has urged Nigerians not to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for the problems in the 2016 budget.
Gbajabiamila, who said this when he received leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in his office in Abuja at the weekend, said civil servants should be held liable for the crises.
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