Nigeria: Factional Speaker Expands Appropriation Committee

28 January 2003

Enugu — Speaker of the Group of 10 Faction in the Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Abel Chukwu has expanded the Finance and Appropriate Committee of the House and given them a week to review and submit their recommendations on the N19.9 billion 2003 budget submitted by Governor Chimaroke Nnamani.

According to Chukwu who also ordered accelerated deliberation on the budget, while there is need to hurry up the review, there is need for caution to do a thorough job since it involves finance.

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