The Nigerian House of Representatives has cried out over what it described as the inadequacy of the National Assembly budget which according to them is too low.
The spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu asserted that the National Assembly cannot function effectively with a low budget.
Kalu disclosed this during an end-of-the-year award ceremony by the House of Representatives Press Corps in Abuja over the weekend where he bagged the award of the Most Outstanding Spokesman of the House.
Kalu lauded the Press Corps for its effort to strengthen democracy.
He said the corps has given stability to the image of the National Assembly.
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He also pointed out that journalists were not getting what they deserved and more should be done to take care of them.
According to Kalu: ‘The budget of the National Assembly is low. We cannot function as expected by the mandate of the Constitution relying on that budget. People can criticize it the way they want.
‘I have said it from the day I came [in]to the National Assembly, you cannot get the efficiency that we want to drive the legislature by depending on the current budget as it is. I am hoping that we would push it forward to accommodate other responsibilities of ours.’
In another report, the Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso has asserted that the All Progressive Congress (APC), and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are dead political parties, stressing that the NNPP is the credible alternative in 2023.
Speaking during an interaction with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) 19 Northern States and the FCT chapter in Kaduna at the weekend, Kwankwaso submitted that the ruling APC had afflicted the country with so much of poverty and diseases, which was unfortunate.