The Senate extended the implementation year from June 30, 2022, to December 31, 2023, by amending the 2022 Supplemental Appropriations Act.
The National Assembly extended the 2022 Supplementary Appropriations Act’s implementation date from December 31, 2022, to March 31, 2023.
In light of the 2022 supplemental budget that was authorized in December 2022, this was done to enable the budget’s full execution.
The government’s Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) were able to use a significant share of the monies that were provided to them thanks to the extension.
However, the Senate Leader, Abdullahi Gobir, claims that there are still significant sums of money with MDAs that must be spent in full.
In light of the critical importance of some important projects that are close to completion, he claimed that it is expedient to ask for a further extension of the expiration clause in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriations Bill in order to prevent aggravating the issue of abandoned projects since some of them were not funded by the 2023 Budget.
In order to permit full exploitation of the capital releases to aid in the economy’s resuscitation, the Senate is modifying the 2022 appropriations legislation.
Additionally, the Senate changed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act during the session to raise the total CBN loans to the Federal Government from 5% to a maximum of 15%.
The proposed amendment will allow the Federal Government to fulfill its present and future obligations through the National Assembly’s approval of the ways and means and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s advances to the Federal Government, according to the Senate Leader, who read the lead debate on the bill.
These were discussed at the upper chamber’s emergency session that was called only two days before Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, took office.
An emergency session has been called twice thus far in the 9th Senate. The first was when funding for the COVID-19 pandemic was authorized.
The CBN Act Amendment Bill and the 2022 Supplemental Budget Amendment Bill are the two main proposed laws that will be discussed today, according to the order paper that was recently issued.
