President
Muhammadu Buhari may be in for another showdown with members of the National
Assembly on resumption of plenary in January if the executive fails to release
funds appropriated to the federal parliament in the 2018 budget.
Some
of the federal lawmakers, who spoke with Punch correspondents on Friday,
alleged that the executive arm of government had withheld their money as a form
of punishment.
The
National Assembly increased its budget from N125bn allocated to it in 2017 to
N139bn in 2018.
They,
however, said rather than implement the N139bn allocated to them in 2018, the
executive was still paying them based on the N125bn appropriated for them in
the 2017 national budget.
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