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House Rescinds on Initial Approval of the Virement/Supplementary Budget for INEC and Security Agencies for the Conduct of the 2019 General Elections

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The House of Representatives has rescinded on its earlier approval of the Virement/ Supplementary budget for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Security agencies after noting at its resumption of plenary on 6 November, that the initial virement passed on October 17 could not be implemented due to “imminent issues.”

It however, approved and adopted the same budget sum of N242,245,050,100 (Two Hundred and Forty-Two Billion, Two Hundred and Forty-Five Million, Fifty Thousand, One hundred Naira) that was passed in October and approved the source of funding from Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as Service Wide Votes.

From discussions at plenary, it appears that the House needed to take this decision as it failed to give details of how the Supplementary budget for the elections would be funded when the budget was initially passed.

Highlights of what has now passed after consideration by its Committee on Supply are stated in the tables below:

 

Agency 2018 Appropriation 2018 Virement Revised total 2018 Appropriation Act
INEC 45,500,000,000 189,007,272,393 234,507,272,393
ONSA 37,467,339,426 9,481,500,000 46,948,839,426
DSS 40,578,570,113 10,213,282,455 50,791,852,568
NSCDC 79,260,507,756 3,573,534,500    82,834,042,256
NPF 324,220,893,212 27,341,317,433 351,562,210,645
NIS 61,986,859,648   2,628,143,320    64,615,002,968
Total 589,014,170,155 242,245,050,100 831,259,220,255

 

SOURCE OF FUNDING
S/N MDA 2018 Appropriation Virement 2018 Revised Appropriation
1 Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 203,010,092,743 11,057,594,240 191,952,498,503
2 Ministry of Budget and National Planning. 1,785,525,979,677 8,845,154,871 1,776,680,824,806
3 Ministry of Communication Technology. 19,765,740,637 828,501,025 18,937,239,612
4 Ministry of Defence (MOD). 576,399,335,199 2,636,334,357 573,763,000,841
5 Federal Ministry of Education 651,226,697,523 10,238,444,433 640,988,253,091
6 Federal Ministry of Environment. 35,378,408,624 2,006,248,705 33,372,159,919
7 Federal Capital Territory Administration 32,298,122,872 1,508,780,026 30,789,342,846
8 Ministry of Foreign Affairs 83,312,206,168 1,737,637,743 81,574,568,425
9 Federal Ministry of Health 356,450,966,085 8,059,195,896 348,391,770,190
10 Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission 7,030,856,777 157,080,000 6,873,776,777
11 Federal Ministry of Information and Culture 57,135,247,001 1,884,753,364 55,250,493,637
12 Ministry of Interior 576,708,246,704 1,676,128,108 575,032,118,596
13 National Human Rights Commission 3,013,745,000 170,430,753 2,843,314,247
14 Federal Ministry of Justice 28,751,625,728 557,939,433 28,193,686,295
15 Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment 27,397,512,045 2,727,731,478 24,669,780,567
16 Ministry of Mines and Steel Development 22,943,075,245 461,396,320 22,481,678,925
17 Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs 131,419,020,657 1,199,044,000 130,219,976,657
18 Office of the National Security Adviser 122,680,943,684 1,120,504,000 121,560,439,684
19 Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation 9,942,847,406 38,746,400 9,904,101,006
20 Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation 111,786,939,502 6,734,088,743 105,052,850,759
21 Ministry of Petroleum Resources 68,940,971,701 20,944,000 68,920,027,701
22 Federal Ministry of Power Works and Housing 714,668,969,899 25,527,821,945 689,141,147,954
23 Presidency 59,343,353,082 1,247,843,520 58,095,509,562
24 Public Complaints Commission 7,480,000,000 48,171,200 7,431,828,800
25 Federal Ministry of Science and Technology 101,161,102,924 7,466,143,244 93,694,959,680
26 Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. 117,770,088,516 7,085,582,899 110,684,505,617
27 Federal Ministry of Transportation. 267,145,582,503 2,283,021,664 264,862,560,839
28 Federal Ministry of Water Resources 155,149,395,652 12,954,799,500 142,194,596,153
29 Federal Ministry of Women Affairs. 7,409,748,628 319,699,353 7,090,049,275
30 Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development. 116,249,860,159 522,763,832 115,727,096,327
  Subtotal 6,457,496,682,340 121,122,525,050 6,336,374,157,290
  SERVICE WIDE VOTE

(Special Intervention Programme)

500,000,000,000 121,122,525,050 378,877,474,950
  Total Virement/Supplementary Approved   242,245,050,100