Quick News - 2013 budget now with Presidency – Senate

[MrVan]

THE controversy trailing the whereabout of the 2013 budget passed by the National Assembly last year has been put to rest as the Senate, yesterday, washed its hands of it, saying the appropriation bill was currently with the Presidency. The Senate also advised those working for the President, including the Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms Arunma Oteh, to do their jobs in such a way that they would not bring bad blood between the presidency and the National Assembly, as according to it, "no individual is more important to the country than the rest." Addressing newsmen in Abuja, Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Publicity, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia South) said: "The Senate has passed the 2013 budget, any other thing that is going on now is the normal course of the bureaucracy involved and I do not think that there would be any problem with that.

- Vanguard Nigeria