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2024 Budget: N9bn For N/Assembly Car Parks, Books, N20.3bn Allocated To Lawmakers’ Aides

2024 Budget: N9bn For N/Assembly Car Parks, Books, N20.3bn Allocated To Lawmakers’ Aides
  • PublishedDecember 31, 2023

Senators and members of the House of Representatives have been allocated a total sum of N127.8 billion in the 2024 Appropriation Bill passed on Saturday.

A breakdown of the budgetary allocation shows that out of the amount, the Senate gets N49.144 billion while the House of Representatives gets N78.624 billion.

N12.325 was allocated to the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) and the NationaInstitutete for Legislative and Democratic Studies: (NILDS) got N9.008 billion.

Also, legislative aides to the lawmakers in both chambers were allocated N20.388 billion.

N3 billion each was allocated for the car park project of the National Assembly while N4 billion was allocated for the building of a ‘Recreation Center’ at the National Assembly.

The newly built National Assembly Library Complex was allocated N12.123 billion as Take-Off Grant while N3 billion was provided for the purchase of books for the library.

The National Assembly Hospital project was allocated N15 billion.

Completion of NILDS headquarters was allocated N4.5 billion while the ongoing construction of National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) building gets N10 billion.

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