President Muhammadu Buhari has been under fire since Wednesday,
hours after he signed on his birthday the N10.59 trillion 2020
budget, as he offered too generous gift to the National Assembly:
an N37 billion fat envelope to renovate the complex.
“It is my pleasant duty, today, on my 77th birthday, to sign the
2020 Appropriation Bill into law. I’m pleased that the National
Assembly has expeditiously passed this Bill. Our Federal Budget is
now restored to a January-December implementation cycle”, Buhari
declared at the signing ceremony, surrounded by National Assembly
leaders.
An investigation by Nairalaw (TNL) shows that in 2013
the Federal Executive Council (FEC) under president Goodluck
Jonathan approved N40.2 billion for the construction of phase III
of the National Assembly complex and renovation of the first and
second phases of the complex
According to the Daily
Trust[1] and
Vanguard
Newspaper Repor[2]t of 12th
December, 2013, the then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT), Sen. Bala Muhammed (now Governor of Bauchi State), disclosed
that:
“We are going to close down the two chambers of the National
Assembly for a period of 12 months and we are lucky we have already
provided large committee rooms that will be used during the period
for the parliament to continue its work.
“The contract is for N40.2billion and it will take 40 months to
complete.“
Muhammed stated that the work concerning phase III of the
complex would involve the construction of a library, budget office,
printing press, clinic, restaurants, banquet hall, places of
worship and plenary hall (auditorium).
He explained that at the end of the project,
television/radio/press facilities, fitness room, administrative
offices, technical rooms, and meeting rooms would be available
while two of the chambers would be renovated.
However, TheNigerialawyer is not sure if the federal government
actually disbursed the said sum for the renovation of the
complex, though TNL is making effort to get in touch with the
budget office to ascertain If same was released for the
renovation.
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