Senate President, Bukola Saraki had promised that the 8th NASS will publish its 2017 budget publicly.
The budget breakdown for “>https://twitter.com/nassnigeria”>@nassnigeria has been released.
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The budget was put at N125bn as against N115bn in 2016.
A summary of the Proposed 2017 Budget showed that the National Assembly management gets N14.9bn.
Senate gets a total of N31.3bn, with the House of Representatives budget at N49bn.
The National Assembly Service Commission gets N2.4bn while the legislative aides get a budget of N9.6bn.
Also, Public Accounts Committee (Senate) gets N118.9m while that of Reps gets N142.7m.
The breakdown further shows that the General services gets N12.5bn; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3bn while the Service wide vote gets N391.3bn.