APC Commends President Buhari for Budget 2021 presentation
By David Onimisi Lawani, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s for presentation of proposed 2021 National Budget aptly tagged ‘Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience’ to a Joint Session of the 9th National Assembly on Thursday.
Yekini Nabena, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party who gave the commendation in a statement said the party is confident that the budget will be considered by the 9th assembly in the interest of Nigerians for sustainability.
It read: ” We are confident that the 9th National Assembly will continue and consolidate its patriotic disposition by speedily considering and passing the 2021 Appropriation Bill into law to enable implementation by 1st January 2021, as canvassed by the President.
” The President Buhari administration is not oblivious of the perseverance and continued support Nigerians have displayed in these difficult times brought by the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the crash in oil prices which affected national revenue and individual livelihoods.
” Commendably, this government has not been found wanting in its resolve to cushion the biting effects on the citizenry while delivering on key policies, programmes and critical infrastructure projects, notably our ongoing national railway projects, the second Niger Bridge, among other critical projects that positively impacts our national life”.
He reassured that despite the dwindling resources as a result of revenue leakages and increase of price of petroleum due to deregulation, the federal government is committed to alleviating the challenges faced by the poor. He however urged Academic Staff Union of Universities to key into IPPS implementation for the good of all members.
” In the face of dwindling national resources, President Buhari in his 2021 budget presentation speech has committed to intensify measures to address revenue leakages and redirect scarce resources to the poor and vulnerable through deregulation of the price of petroleum products; continued verification exercise with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and implementation of service-based electricity tariffs.
” We particularly urge members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to show patriotism by supporting government’s intentions on the IPPIS which is to streamline and check incidence of payments to non-existent personnel and unauthorised allowances by enrolling in the IPPIS, ending the ongoing strike and enable our students to resume school”, Nabena noted.
