The House of Representatives has scheduled passage of the 2022 Appropriation Bill for December 15, 2021.
Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Aliyu Betara, disclosed this at a meeting with members on Thursday.
This was just as the House passed the Federal Government’s budget for second reading and adjourned plenary till November 9, 2021, during which Ministries, Departments and Agencies were to appear before the standing committees of the House to defend their budget estimates.
Betara said the committee was to lay its report on the budget on December 14, which the House was expected to consider and adopt the next day.
He partly said, “The (standing) committees will report back to this (appropriations) committee where sub-committees headed by our committee members need to work with those (standing) committees. There are guidelines for every committee.”
During the second reading, the lawmakers had taken turns to criticise the internal and external borrowings by the Federal Government, the huge budget deficit and failure by the ministries, departments and agencies to generate adequate revenue to finance the budget, among other issues.
After the second reading, the House adjourned plenary till November 9.
