{"id":102191,"date":"2022-12-29T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102191"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:02:34","slug":"national-assembly-passes-n21-82trn-budget-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-passes-n21-82trn-budget-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly passes N21.82trn Budget for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Assembly Wednesday passed the 2023\u00a0 Appropriation Bill to the tune of\u00a0N21, 827,188,747, 391 as the\u00a0 national budget as the\u00a0 aggregate expenditure for\u00a0 the\u00a0 fiscal year.<\/p>\n

The approved budget was jerked by N1.31 trillion which was moved from the initial N20.1 trillion to\u00a0 N21.8 trillion.<\/p>\n

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had on\u00a0Friday, October 7th 2022 proposed and laid a N20.51 trillion Appropriation bill for consideration by both the Senate and the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

The passage of the\u00a0 appropriation bill was sequel to the consideration and approval of the report of the Senator Jibrin Barau, APC, Kano North led Senate Committee on Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriation presented by the chairman, Hon. Aliyu Betara.<\/p>\n

The Appropriation Bill was\u00a0after the clause by clause consideration of the report as it was then\u00a0read the third time and passed after the Senate and House of Representatives went into the Committee of Supply.<\/p>\n

Out of the total sum, N967.48 billion was earmarked for Statutory Transfers, N6.55 trillion was for debt servicing; N8.32 trillion was for recurrent (non-debt) expenditure while the sum of N5.97 trillion was for capital expenditure for the year ending 31st day of December, 2023.<\/p>\n

In the passed budget, Benchmark Price of Crude Oil is\u00a0 pegged at $75 USD Per Barrel; Crude Oil Production at 1.69 mbpd; Exchange Rate at N435 57\/US$;\u00a0 Gross Domestic Production (GDP) Growth Rate at 3.75percent and Inflation Rate at 17.16% .<\/p>\n

In the passed budget, from the statutory transfers, the National Judicial Council takes N165 billion; Niger-Delta Development Commission gets N119.93 billion, Universal Basic Education N103.28 billion; Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) N173.63 billion; National Human Right Commission<\/p>\n

N4.5 billion; North East Development Commission, N59.03 billion; Basic Health Care Fund N51.64 billion and National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) N51.64 billion.<\/p>\n

Also under the Statutory Transfers, the National Assembly Severance\/Inauguration of outgoing and incoming 9th and 10th Assembly (Legislators and Legislative Aides) is allocated N30.17 billion, National Assembly Office gulps N30.49 billion; Senate N33.26 billion, House of Representatives N51.99 billion; National Assembly Service Commission N10.55 billion; National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) N7.41billion and Service Wide Vote N671.3 million.<\/p>\n

Further breakdown shows that\u00a0Office of Retired Clerks and Permanent Secretaries take N1.05 billion, National Assembly Library Building N4.25 billion; Constitution Review N850 million; Completion of NILDS headquarters N2.5 billion; Construction of National Assembly Service Commission Building<\/p>\n

N10 billion and Public Complaints Commission, N10.69 billion.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the debt service, domestic debts (including Ways and Means) got\u00a0 N4.49 trillion; foreign debts was allocated N1.81 trillion; sinking fund to retire maturing loans takes N247.72 billion.<\/p>\n

Under recurrent expenditure (Non-debt) the presidency was allocated N76.40 billion, defence got N1.09 trillion, Ministry of foreign affairs N93.68 billion, Federal ministry of information & culture N59.82 billion; interior N278.69 billion; Police Affairs\u00a0 N777.40 billion; communications and digital economy N32.13 billion; National Security Adviser N172.60 billion and Secretary to the Government of the Federation takes N70.08 billion.<\/p>\n

For recurrent expenditure, the Federal Ministry of Special Duties & Inter-Governmental Affairs gets N4.79 billion; Agriculture and Rural Development<\/p>\n

N85.41 billion; Finance, Budget and National Planning N29.99 billion; Industry, Trade and Investment N16.82 billion; Labour and Employment N15.52 billion, Science, Technology and Innovation N52.33 billion; Transport N18.01 billion; Aviation N9.43 billion; Petroleum Resources N33.15 billion and Works and Housing N34.98 billion.<\/p>\n

For the capital expenditure,\u00a0 Presidency is allocated N20.11 billion, defence gets N285 billion, Foreign Affairs N5.85 billion; Information & Culture N11.87 billion; Interior N45.62 billion; Police N60.64 billion; National Security Adviser<\/p>\n

N70.33 billion; Agriculture and Rural Development N248.35 billion, Finance, Budget and National Planning N166.74 billion.<\/p>\n

Further breakdown of the capital expenditure indicated that Science, Technology and Innovation is allocated N132.57 billion; Transport
\nN74.26 billion; Aviation N49.41 billion;\u00a0 Power N56.14 billion; Works and Housing N398.27 billion; Federal Capital Territory Administration<\/p>\n

N15.47 billion; Education<\/p>\n

N153.73 billion; Health N134.90 billion and Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development N32.05 billion.<\/p>\n

In a related development the National Assembly yesterday\u00a0 passed the Finance bill, 2022 designed\u00a0 to provide support for the funding of the 2023 budget.<\/p>\n

The passage of the bill with proposed amendments fiscal laws such as capital gains tax, company income tax, customs excise tariff Act, Federal Inland Revenue Service Act, personal income tax and stamp duties act followed the consideration and adoption of the report on it presented by the deputy Chairman Committee on Finance, Hon. Saidu Abdullahi at the plenary.<\/p>\n

Also, the National Assembly considered and passed the sum of N262, 959,510,955 as the budget for Federal\u00a0 Inland Revenue (FIRS) in the fiscal year 2023.<\/p>\n

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