Ahead of their resumption from the Christmas and New Year holidays in January, the Senate and the House of Representatives have been urged to thoroughly scrutinize next year’s forty-seven point nine trillion-naira Federal budget.
The call which was made by leaders of some major Civil Society Organizations said the thorough scrutinizing of the budget will help to check leakages, duplication of projects and frivolous requests by Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
Speaking on the development, the Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, Auwal-Ibrahim Musa-Rafsanjani also challenged the Federal lawmakers to put in place a legislative framework that would stop the practice of having two budgets running concurrently.
He charged the legislators to alleviate the pains of Nigerians through their oversight of the executive arm of government and appealed to the lawmakers to focus on the controversial tax bills before it and to start the electoral reform process.