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Nigerians have a good reason to be hopeful about the 2016 budget which the National Assembly is expected to pass in the coming week, senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District, Adesoji Akanbi, has said.
According to Senator Akanbi, the budget will be the best budget ever passed in Nigeria’s history.
He said that the increased budgetary allocation to infrastructures and social welfare in the budget makes it the perfect revival tool for the country’s economy. He noted that while only N500 billion was voted for infrastructures in the 2015 budget, over N2.2 trillion was budgeted this year for infrastructural development.
The All Progressives Congress senator stated further that the budget also supports non-oil sector export which will enable Nigerians go into local production and exporting.
He explained that the special intervention funds such as the N500 billion for the recruitment and training of 500,000 teachers across the country, will also drive the economy forward.
On the delay in passing the budget, Akanbi assured that it was nothing to worry about because new budgets takes effect from April of every new year.
He however assured that the budget will be passed in the coming week as senators have been working tirelessly to get it passed as soon as possible.
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