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Senate Leader Reveals When National Assembly Will Pass 2024 Appropriations Bill

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Senate Leader Reveals When National Assembly Will Pass 2024 Appropriations Bill

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Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, the Leader of the Senate, reiterated that the National Assembly is committed to passing the 2024 appropriations bill on December 30 to maintain the January-December budget cycle.

Speaking during a session with journalists in Iyin Ekiti, his hometown, Bamidele, who also serves as the Chairman of the Southern Senators Forum in the Ninth National Assembly, emphasized that federal lawmakers would curtail their holidays to facilitate the swift passage of the 2024 budget.

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Providing further updates on the 2024 appropriation bill, the senate leader said, “We have been sitting beyond our regular sitting days. We have sat on Saturdays. We may even sit on Sunday as we are approaching another year. We only give ourselves three days to go home and celebrate Christmas.

“We are reconvening on December 29. Our hope and determination is to pass by December 30. On January 1, 2024, Mr President will have the 2024 appropriation bill at his desk for assent so that its implementation can take off in earnest,” Bamidele explained.

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