Member of the federal house of representative, Ibadan North, Adewale Akinremi, has guaranteed Nigerians that President Bola Tinubu’s 2024 Appropriation Bill, submitted last week, will undergo swift approval.
According to The PUNCH, Akinremi praised the budget as “comprehensive and feasible” in a statement made available to journalist on Monday.
He said, “We at the National Assembly will work with relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government to ensure that the budget is passed as early as possible for ordinary Nigerians to benefit.
“It is because of Nigerians that President Tinubu has taken into consideration areas of security, local job creation, macro-economic stability, investment environment optimisation, human capital development, poverty reduction and social security in the 2024 budget of renewed hope.”
The lawmaker also insisted that the President didn’t submit an empty box during the budget presentation last week and called on opposition parties to “stop misleading Nigerians.”
He described what he tagged as allegations of the President submitting an empty box as “childish and misrepresentation of facts.”
“President Tinubu’s analysis of the budget is well detailed, the first of its kind in recent times. What people don’t know is that Mr. President had earlier submitted a flash drive as a soft copy of the 2024 Budget, which is now being printed out in hard copies.
“As an old, experienced member, I fully understand the due process for submitting the budget, whether hard or soft copies. It is important that we allow the house to do their jobs in partnership with the relevant agencies,” he said.
