House of Representatives is expected to pass the 2017 Appropriation bill through second reading today

   The House of Representatives is expected to pass the 2017 Appropriation bill through second reading today.

   It is expected that the bill will be transmitted to the Appropriation Committee for further engagement with various Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.
  The Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, who was speaking at the end of the debate on the general principles of the N7.298 trillion budget proposal yesterday, urged members who wished to contribute to the ongoing debate to register their intention.
   Abubakar stressed the need for full implementation of the Public Procurement Act, which puts
the lawmaker also applauded the successes recorded by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to increase the country’s foreign reserve and other intervention projects.
On his part, Rep. Dennis Amadi from PDP-Enugu, decried the bureaucratic bottleneck in the disbursement of allocations to about 600 implementing MDAs.
  He further stressed the need for increase in local production of petroleum products in the country.