Lawmakers Budget Additional N30bn for N’Assembly Renovation

In the 2024 Appropriation Bill, lawmakers have budgeted an additional N30bn for the renovation of the National Assembly Complex.

The N30bn was part of the N344.85bn budgeted for the National Assembly after they raised their allocations from N197.93bn.

The N344.85bn, signed by President Bola Tinubu on January 1, is the highest ever allocated to the legislature.

The total amount being spent on the renovation of the National Assembly complex is now N60bn with the additional N30bn earmarked for the renovation of the building.

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, who is also the President of the National Assembly, had on June 30, 2023, declared that Tinubu would inaugurate the N30bn different ongoing projects at the National Assembly in December of the same year.

Akpabio had said:

“The entire complex of the National Assembly is like a construction site due to ongoing general renovation work and fresh projects which would, on completion, be inaugurated by President Bola Tinubu in December this year (2023).”

Although the renovation was initially scheduled to be completed and delivered in August 2022, the delivery date was later moved to January 2023 and then December 2023.

According to checks, the renovation of the National Assembly Complex is yet to be completed with skeletal work ongoing on the premises as of January 2024.