Senate President Ahmad Lawan says the 2022 appropriation bill will be passed before the Christmas holiday.
Speaking at the New Telegraph award ceremony on Friday night in Lagos, Lawan said the National Assembly is working towards ensuring early passage of the bill.
Lawan, who bagged the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award in Politics’ at the event, said: “This is my fourth term in the senate. When we came in 2019, our colleagues decided to give us the opportunity to serve them,”
“As a member, I have never seen a senate chamber that is so united, determined and focused on achieving great deeds of legislation and development for our dear nation as this.
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“The ninth senate and indeed the ninth national assembly has recorded great success and that is not to say that we have no differences; we all decided that this time around, we must work for Nigeria together, in spite of our political dispositions.
“It is in this regard that we have said that the 2022 appropriation budget would be passed before Christmas so the executive would begin to act on it in the following year.”
