The Citizens’ Town Hall meeting on the 2024 budget and appropriation process has started in Abuja.
Numerous notable individuals, who attended the event organized by the House Committee on Appropriations and the Office of the Speaker of Representatives’ Programs Coordinating Unit, included Kabir Abubakar, the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Iduma Enwo, his deputy, and Iyiola Omisore, the former National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Kabir said in his welcome speech that the event was meant to increase public participation in the appropriations process.
He said: “This Town Hall is important in promoting the integrity of the budgeting process.”
The Citizens’ Town Hall meeting on the 2024 budget and appropriation process has started in Abuja.
Recall Lagos Panorama reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, presented the 2024 budget of 27 trillion naira to the national assembly.
Presenting the budget, the president said Nigeria’s national defence and internal security, local job creation, macro-economic stability, human capital development, social security, poverty reduction and investment environment optimization are some of the top priorities of the 2024 Budget of Renewed Hope.
Tinubu said the proposed budget prioritizes human capital development, with particular attention given to children because human capital remains the most critical resource for national development.
Meanwhile, the national assembly has vowed to ensure that the budget is passed by December 31, 2023.
