The 2021 National Budget Is A Budget Of Economic Recovery – APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC has begged the National Assembly to fasten their action on the passage of the 2021 National Budget to enable its implementation by January 1, 2020.

The party revealed this at Thursday’s presentation of the proposed budget by President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena, it is a budget of economic recovery and resilience and the 9th National Assembly must react well by speedily passing it to aid its quick implementation.

He added that the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU should also enroll into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System IPPIS.

His words, “We are confident that the 9th National Assembly will continue and consolidate its patriotic disposition by speedily considering and passing the 2021 Appropriation Bill into law to enable implementation by 1st January 2021, as canvassed by the President”

“Commendably, this government has not been found wanting in its resolve to cushion the biting effects on the citizenry while delivering on key policies, programmes and critical infrastructure projects, notably our ongoing national railway projects, the second Niger Bridge, among other critical projects that positively impacts our national life.”

“In the face of dwindling national resources, President Buhari in his 2021 budget presentation speech has committed to intensify measures to address revenue leakages and redirect scarce resources to the poor and vulnerable through deregulation of the price of petroleum products; continued verification exercise with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and implementation of service-based electricity tariffs.”

“We particularly urge members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to show patriotism by supporting government’s intentions on the IPPIS which is to streamline and check incidence of payments to non-existent personnel and unauthorised allowances by enrolling in the IPPIS, ending the ongoing strike and enable our students to resume school”