The Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Adeola, says there is no provision in the 2022 budget for the monthly N5,000 transportation allowance for 40 million Nigerians intended to cushion the effect of the planned petroleum subsidy removal.
Senator Adeola who made this known while speaking to journalists after submitting his Committee’s 2022 budget said before the executive can embark on such intervention, the proposal must come to the National Assembly for approval.
He explained that there is no way the executive would take a unilateral decision on a programme that is expected to gulp N2.4 trillion without getting the approval of the National Assembly.
“I don’t want to go into details; if there is something like that, a document needs to come to the National Assembly and how do they want to identify the identity of the beneficiaries. This is not provided for in the 2022 budget proposal which is N2.4 trillion,” the senator declared.
“For us, we still believe it is news because this budget we are considering contains subsidy and if we are passing a budget with a subsidy in the fiscal document, we can’t speak because that is the document that is currently before us,” he added.