HoR Blows Hot on Foreign Affairs Ministry: Rejects 2023 Budget Pending Full Compliance with 2022 Appropriation Act Guidelines
Daily Rendezvous House Committee on Foreign Affairs, blows hot on the ministry of foreign Affairs during its 2023 budget defence upending its 2023 budget over failure to comply with the provisions of the 2022 Appropriation Act. The house strongly holds that it would not consider the ministry's 2023 budget proposals until the Ministry, among other conditions, complies fully with the 2022 Appropriations Act as amended." This was made known in a press statement issued by Nkem Anyata-Lafia, the Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to the Chairman of the Committee on foreign Affairs. The statement reads in part, "The above which was sequel to a resolution of the Committee was occasioned by gross violations of several provisions of the Act and other extant financial regulations by officials of the Ministry. "Chairman of the Committee, Rt. Hon.( Dr.) Yusuf Buba Yakub,who conveyed the position of the Committee at the 2023 budget defence session on Wedne...