It was fascinating as the House of Representatives curiously passed President Muhammadu Buhari's virement proposal above the initial N180billion that was requested.
In another development the House also listed the item as a motion in the name of the House Appropriation Committee chairman, Hon. Mustapha Bala Dawaki (APC, Kano), which was passed without a single debate for or against.
Recall that the House first received and read the document on October 25th and kept it a secret for weeks until after some interface between National leadership and the presidency before it was presented and referred on November 16th.
But in a curious move, the House increased the virement from N180billion as requested by President Buhari to N208.821,671,494 and passed it without debating the proposal and laying the report for consideration at the committee of the whole House.
The breakdown of the passed version shows that recurrent for Public Service Wage Adjustment (PSWA) under Service Wide Vote would take the sum of N71,800,215,270. Contingency is to take N1.2billion, Margin for Increase in Cost (MIC) to take N2billion, Ministry of Interior Cadet Feeding in police academy Wudil, Kano to take N932.4million.
Others under the same Service Wide Vote are: Amnesty Programme which would take N35billion, internal operations of the armed forces to take N5,205,930,270billion, Operation Lafiya Dole to gulp N13,933,093,000billion, NYSC under Ministry of Sports and Youth Development to getN19,792,018,400billion and Foriegn Missions to get N16,349,647,078billion.
The Augmentation of Meal Subsidy/Direct Teaching and Lab Cost under the Federal Ministry of Education will gulp N900million with a sub total of N167,113, 304, 018billion.
Under statutory transfer, the Public Complaints Commission was allocated N2.5billion
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