2022 Budget: Why Foreign Missions Got Financial Autonomy – Gbajabiamila

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabimila has insisted that budgetary allocation to foreign missions would be implemented by individual

Gbajabimila who hosted officials of the ministry yesterday said Nigeria’s foreign missions abroad were in a pitiable condition, noting that funds allocated to them in the 2022 budget should be remitted directly.

The House had last week expressed displeasure over an alleged directive to foreign missions by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to disregard some provisions of the 2022 appropriation act on the financing of embassies capital expenditures. This is just as the House directed the ministry to “expressly comply with the provision of section 11 of the 2022 appropriations act ”.To this end, the House invited the minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and permanent secretary of the ministry, Gabriel Aduda, for allegedly violating the provisions of the law. Onyeama and Aduda are to meet with Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house, on Tuesday.

While explaining the rationale behind the decision, the speaker said “I think it is also good to give a background to the reason for the law. We did not just wake up and pull something out of the hat and say we want to put this clause. For every law, there is a reason for it.

The speaker, therefore, insisted that the law was meant to remove bureaucratic bottlenecks in the administration of foreign missions m.

 

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