President of Nigeria’s Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly will pass the proposed 2022 budget before the end of the legislative week.
He disclosed this on Monday in Abuja while giving a lecture at the maiden Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS).
Lawan said the current National Assembly has made it a practice for the budget to be presented and passed before the end of December yearly, to ensure that its implementation commences in January.
According to the lawmaker, the percentage of the National Assembly budget in the federal budget ranged between 1.44 percent in 2019 to 0.82 percent in 2021.
For him, the National Assembly has been grossly underfunded in the last four years. He further revealed that the total salary of a member of the Senate was about N1.5 million and that of the House of Representatives was about N1.3 million.
