The House of Representatives at its plenary session of 14th November 2019 resolved to vire the sum of one hundred million naira (N100,000,000) allocated for personnel cost in the 2019 Budget for the National Assembly Service Commission to cover its overhead and capital cost instead. Lawmakers were of the view that this would enable the Commission utilize the fund appropriately.

Presenting the motion, Hon. Sani U. Bala (APC: Kano) stated that one hundred million naira (N100, 000, 000) had been budgeted to cover personnel cost (such as the payment of salaries and allowances) of new recruits to the National Assembly Service Commission in the 2019 budget. However, since then, the expected employees has not yet been appointed and were unlikely to resume before January 2020. Due to this, the said sum was unlikely to be utilized at the end of December 2019, which concludes Nigeria’s budgetary fiscal year.

Speaking further, he stated it was a practice for all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to return all their unspent personnel cost to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by the end of December 2019. But that instead of doing this a virement of the said money would be more appropriate given that the Commission was is in dire need of capital funds in view of the deplorable state of its furniture and sundry office equipment which were purchased over ten years ago and were in poor condition.