{"id":136105,"date":"2024-01-02T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/02\/why-we-increased-2024-budget-by-n1-2-trillion-akpabio\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:53:45","slug":"why-we-increased-2024-budget-by-n1-2-trillion-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/02\/why-we-increased-2024-budget-by-n1-2-trillion-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Increased 2024 Budget By N1.2 Trillion \u2014 Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-905271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_20240102-065346_Opera-Mini.jpg\" alt=\"Tinubu Akpabio Abbas\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio, on Monday, explained that there are justifications by the National Assembly for increasing the 2024 budget by over N1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that on Saturday, the National Assembly passed the budget after increasing its size from N27.5 trillion proposed by President Bola Tinubu to N28.7 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>The budget size was increased by N1.2 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat with newsmen after Tinubu signed the Appropriation Bill into law at the State House in Abuja, Akpabio said Nigerians would benefit from the budget.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cHe (Tinubu) also noted the slight increase in the budget, which was to take care of human capital development and take care of the needs of Nigerians, particularly the school feeding, the security situation in the country and all that and he was happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: More Of 2023 Troubles\u2019ll Creep Into 2024, A Year Of Positive And Negative Mix \u2014 Olukoya Releases Prophecies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the budget moved from N27 trillion to about N28 point something trillion with very verifiable justifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited that we are all working in one accord and Nigerians will benefit. So we have returned the country to the January to December budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the lawmakers would ensure that the budget is implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOurs is to ensure that we make sure that we monitor what goes on to ensure that yes, indeed, wanting to do a budget is one thing and another thing is for the budget to be fully implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to undertake that. I had said so even in my address and my brother, the honourable speaker can confirm that both chambers had to do a joint sitting collaboratively to even achieve the purpose you are seeing today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-612972587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio, on Monday, explained that there are justifications by the National Assembly for increasing the 2024 budget by over N1 trillion. Recall that on Saturday, the National Assembly passed the budget after increasing its size from N27.5 trillion proposed by President Bola Tinubu to N28.7 trillion. 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