Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has said that the 2018 Budget proposal will be presented to the National Assembly by October.
He disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Friday in Abuja.
According to Enang, the 2018 budget is one of the matters that was agreed between the Legislature and the Executive, at the assent session by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.
“What was agreed on was that this budget will run a cycle that should end in Dec 2017. We are working toward presenting the budget by October.
“The Ministry of Budget and National Planning, myself and the D-G Budget Office of the Federation did a presentation and a briefing to the leadership of the Assembly on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper for 2018 as the basis for the presentation.
“What we are doing is to make sure we make every person to make inputs before we even present it to them.
“This is aimed at ensuring that by October every matter relating to the pre-loading of the budget is done,” Enang said.
