Ondo Assembly halts supplementary budget approval over Finance Commissioner’s snub

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Ondo Assembly

The Ondo State House of Assembly on Thursday halted the legislative process of granting approval to the 2024 supplementary budget over the failure of the Commissioner for Finance, Mrs. Omowumi Isaac, to honour the invitation of the parliament.

The lawmakers who were infuriated over the decision of the Finance Commissioner to snub them despite being summoned threatened to issue a bench warrant against her. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa had sent a bill to the Assembly to amend the 2024 appropriation bill on the consolidated revenue fund of the state of a sum of N487,437 billion. With the sum of N246,198 earmarked for recurrent expenditure, N241,239 is for capital expenditure for the services of the state until the end of 2024.

According to the Minority Leader of the Assembly, Olajide Oguntodu , his colleagues should not approve the letter brought to the Assembly by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, while Felix Afe, representing Akoko Northwest constituency, described the letter as an affront to the people of Ondo State. 'The letter did not state where the Commissioner for Finance went to or when she would come back. We want her to tell us the performance of the budget for 2024.

 

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