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Senate Passes N362.3bn FCT Budget
The Senate on Tuesday in Abuja approved the N362.3 billion budget for the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for 2010.
The budget shows an increase of more than N12 billion above the figure of N350.3 billion submitted to the Senate by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on Feb. 25.
A breakdown of the budget shows that N39.5 billion is for Personnel Cost; N29.5 billion for Overhead Cost while N293.2 billion is for Capital Expenditure.
Presenting the budget to the Senate, the Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Sen. Abubakar Sodangi, said that the significant increase was due to the additional revenue revealed to both committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives by the FCT Administration.
He said that most of the items to be undertaken by the FCT administration were ongoing projects with a few new ones.
The new projects captured in the 2010 budget, he said, included satellite town development and infrastructure, provision of equipment for the Abuja Environmental Protection Board and proper resettlement of Abuja indigenes.
Other projects, he added, included provision of adequate water supply to residents of the FCT, construction of roads linking satellite towns, provision of security gadgets to security agencies and rehabilitation of old districts in the FCT.
Meanwhile, the Senate has directed the Nigeria Customs Service to re-absorb Mrs Faith Umoh, who was prematurely retired.
The directive followed the adoption of the report of its Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions over her premature retirement.
Briefing newsmen, Sen. Bob Effiong (PDP-Akwa Ibom), said that Umoh was compulsorily retired at the age of 47, describing the Senate decision as a victory for the Rule of Law and democracy.
“Umoh did not commit any offence and had no single query in her file and that is why she had to petition the Senate when she was forcefully retired,” he said.
The Senate, however, directed its Committee on Establishment and Public Service to tidy up the grey areas in the National Assembly Service Commission Act (Amendment) Bill 2010.
The senators had during the consideration of the committee’s report noticed some grey areas in the bill that include the tenure of chairman of the commission.
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