Reps Await Supplementary Budget To Fund New Ministries
The House of Representatives is looking forward to receiving a supplementary budget from President Muhammadu Buhari following the creation of new ministries to which ministers have been assigned.
According to the Jigawa representative, it would be difficult for the new ministries to smoothly take off since the expenditure they would incur was not budgeted for in the 2019 Appropriation Act.
“The new ministries may not take off until 2020 except if the president fast- tracks the process of bringing a supplementary budget to take care of their needs. The creation of police affairs ministry is welcome, so also is the humanitarian and emergency ministry.
“I am also happy with the unbundling of the Power, Works and Housing Ministry. I feel there should still be separate Housing and Works ministries to ensure efficient delivery of services to Nigerians,” he said.
The Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase, expressed the readiness of the National Assembly to work in harmony with the newly sworn in ministers.
At a reception in honour of the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, Wase said that he had no doubt that Tallen would succeed, given her experience as a politician.
The minister thanked President Buhari, the deputy speaker, and Governor Simon Bako Lalong and the good people of Plateau State for the honour done her.
“Whoever knows me will know that I don’t believe in ethnic or religious politics. My doors are open; we will work together for the progress of Plateau and Nigeria. I am your ambassador Mr. Governor; I am at your disposal for anything that pertains to the national level,” she said.
The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has announced a plan to organise a meeting of all critical stakeholders in youth development in the next few days. He announced this yesterday during his first assignment in Abuja when he gave a keynote address at the 2019 International Youth Day celebrations, with the theme “Transforming Education.”
