President Muhammadu Buhari has earmarked 234Billion for the National Assembly in the recently presented 2022 Budget even as concerns mount over possible padding by the National Assembly to increase the amount.
This is the highest annual allocation ever proposed by the executive for the national assembly since the present administration came into power in 2015. The proposed N134 billion as National Assembly’s statutory allocation for the 2022 fiscal year was N6 billion higher than the sum of N128 billion proposed by the Presidency in the 2021 budget estimates.
In line with the shared understanding between the Executive and Legislature, the sum of N100 billion was also allocated for Constituency projects in the 2021 Appropriation Act.
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The federal government had proposed N128 billion as allocation for the national assembly in the 2021 fiscal year, but the lawmakers increased it to N134 billion.
There have been public debates over the huge salaries and allowances earned by federal lawmakers over the years. Each senator gets as much as N13.5 million as running cost covering all their allowances, while a member of the house of representatives gets N8.5 million for the same.
Other 2022 budget lines captured in the Statutory Transfer included: “N120 billion (against N110 billion proposed in 2021 estimates) for National Judicial Council (NJC); N46.172 billion (against N29.70 billion proposed in 2021 estimates) for North East Development Commission (NEDC); N4.5 billion (against N3 billion proposed in the 2021 estimates) for National Human Right Commission (NHRC); N98.712 billion (against N63.51 billion) for Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
“N140 billion (against N40 billion proposed in the 2021 estimates) for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); N54.051 billion for National Agency for Science Engineering & Infrastructure (NASENI); N8.690 billion (against N5.20 billion proposed in the 2021 estimates) for Public Complaint Commission (PCC); N108.102 (against N70.05 billion proposed in the 2021 estimates) for Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and N54.051 (against N35.03 billion proposed in the 2021 estimates) for Basic Health Care Fund.”
The details of the 2022 appropriation bill also showed that the State House Medical Centre was allocated a total sum of N687, 425,876 with N331, 730,212 and N355, 695,664 voted for overhead and capital expenditure, respectively.
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State House Lagos Liaison Office had proposed for it in the 2022 budget, the total sum of N301,391,917 comprising N95,280,402 for overhead and N206,111,515 for expenditure while the Office of the Vice President was allocated a total amount of N1,183,011,298 made up of N1,048,618,092 for overhead and N134,393,206 for capital expenditure.
