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The National Assembly will be funded with N128 billion in the 2021 budget, just as the President Muhammadu Buhari had admitted that the Federal Government is spending more on recurrent expenditure.
Buhari, while presenting the 2021 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday, noted that personnel cost is still the largest component of budget expenditure.
The President blamed this on non-existent personnel (ghost workers) and unauthorised allowances introduced by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.
He, therefore, ordered heads of the MDAs to get approval before any recruitment.