The Chairman of the Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercrime, Shuaib Afolabi Salisu, has said the National Assembly has refused to rush the passage of the 2025 budget proposal to allow for thorough scrutiny.
Salisu said the lawmakers didn’t want to be encumbered by the January-December cycle which would not allow members to go through the budget thoroughly.
Daily Trust reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had presented a budget of N49.7 trillion for the 2025 fiscal year to the National Assembly.
While presenting the budget details, President Tinubu said the 2025 appropriation was designed to ensure macro-economic stability, poverty reduction, promoting economic stability, developing human capital development and insecurity.
But Salisu, while speaking with newsmen in Ilaro, Ogun State, at the annual New Year party of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Solomon Adeola, explained that the budget of about 3,000 pages presented by Tinubu required thorough scrutiny.
