Senate resumes today, to discuss 2014 budget

Senator Ita Enang

The Senate will reconvene on Tuesday (today) after seven weeks of holiday with expectations that the executive will send to it, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework which will form the basis for their deliberations on the 2014 budget.

The MTEF, which is expected to cover the period of 2014 – 2016 fiscal years, usually helps the nation in its revenue generation efforts.

The essential features of MTEF are production quota, oil benchmark and revenue projection.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang, stated this while briefing journalists, in Abuja on Monday.

Enang, who said the National Assembly was still awaiting the framework, explained that there could be no budget presentation until MTEF was received from the executive and accordingly deliberated upon.

After receiving the MTEF, he said, the lawmakers would deliberate on the content with the intention to draw conclusion on which of the components of the framework would serve as benchmark for the budget.

After fruitful deliberation, the added, the framework would be passed and sent back to the executive, thus clearing the coast for budget presentation.

He said,

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Jang, Amaechi clash again •Plateau gov invites govs to meeting today •He is an impostor –Rivers State governor •Jang faction may meet Obasanjo tomorrow

The crisis within the Nigeria Governors’ Forum appears not to be over despite recent moves by the governors to find a way out.

On Saturday, the  Chairman of the forum, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, asked his colleagues to shun a meeting called by a factional chairman of the forum, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State. Amaechi also described Jang in unflattering terms.

Jang, in a letter sent to governors on Friday, had invited them for a meeting holding in Abuja later today.

Amaechi won the forum’s May 24, 2013 chairmanship election with 19 votes as against Jang’s 16, but the Plateau governor insisted he won the election.

The Rivers governor, in a message to one of our correspondents on Saturday, said it was wrong for Jang to continue calling for meetings when it was apparent that he did not win the forum’s chairmanship election.

He described Jang as an impostor and asked the governors not to honour his invitation.

Amaechi said,

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