A new and incredible precedent is being set in Nigeria’s legislative and law enactment practice. This appears to be playing out more in the economic management arena. It is the practice of using one piece of proposed legislation to engage and react to so many extant laws and policies. It is the practice of ad-hocism which reacts to what happens or is needed at a particular time, rather than plan in advance.
The impression created when every Appropriation Bill is accompanied by a Finance Bill is that the resulting Finance Act will expire with the Appropriation Act which expires within a period of 12 months – January to December in accordance with the 1999 Constitution and the Financial Year Act. But this is not the case as the Finance Act simply survives the financial year and continues in operation.
The more challenging issue is in terms of profit margins as it relates to public contract implementation.
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