Budget 2020: Senate Tinkers With Timetable, Shifts Deadline
October 27, 2019
7:31 am
• May Suspend Plenary For Another Week
• Urgent Need For NABRO Re-echoes
Despite its avowed commitment to giving accelerated consideration to processing of the 2020 budget proposal, the Senate has run into hitches with its schedule for the exercise.
Consequently, it has reviewed its budget consideration timetable to allow most committees yet to conclude work, and process their reports, to do so within seven days.
It would be recalled that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, had warned that any minister or head of any government agency that failed to defend their budgets by the end of October would not …
