President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has released details of National Assembly’s 2018 budget in public domain.
The 45-page document shows that a total of N139.5 billion was budgeted for the National Assembly in the year 2018. Of this sum, N35.6 billion was earmarked for the Senate, while the House of Representatives got N57,425,137,793.
Again, N10,202,095,928 was budgeted for legislative aides, the National Assembly office got N15,389,235,912, while the National Assembly Commission got N2,736,081,266.
The National Assembly Legislative Institute got N4,373,813,596, while N1,145,143,254 was appropriated for service-wide vote of the Legislature.
The release came on the heels of the pressure mounted on the Senate by Nigeria’s budget watchdog, BudgIT.
Saraki had taken to his verified Twitter handle @SPNigeria on Friday, in a tweet publicly addressed to BudgIT.
BudgIT Nigeria, a civic tech organisation that claims to “raise the standards of transparency, citizen engagement and accountability .
