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| Saraki with the press shortly after the signing of the 2016 Budget |
Senate President, Bukola Saraki has promised that the National Assembly will ensure its proper
implementation through diligent oversight.
Saraki who joined Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other top government
officials in witnessing the signing of the budget into law by President
Muhammadu Buhari, said the responsibility is now that of both the
executive and the legislature to ensure that the objectives and goals of
the budget are duly realized.
He called on ministers, heads of departments and agencies to hit the
ground running with the implementation of the various provisions made in
the budget so that the expectations of the people can be fulfilled.
The Senate President also thank and commended Nigerians for their
patience while the presidency to sign the 2016 Appropriation
Act into law, and also promised that now that the budget has
been signed into law people will start seeing the positive impact on the
economy and their standard of living.
According to Saraki, "On our own part as members of the National Assembly, we will closely
monitor the implementation of the budget by providing effective
oversight. We will also ensure that all necessary laws that will aid the
transformation of the contents of the budget into practical policies,
projects and programmes that will directly have positive impact on
Nigerians will be put in place. That is why we have started the
amendment of the Public Procurement Act to ensure that a substantial
percentage of the money to be spent in the budget are made available to
Nigerians through government patronage of Made-in-Nigeria goods and
services."
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