Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has hinted that the 2017
budget will soon be signed into law.
The acting president dropped the hint yesterday in his
nationwide broadcast commemorating the country’s Democracy Day and the second
anniversary of the present administration.
He said the implementation of the 2017 fiscal document would
bring added impetus to the ongoing economic recovery.
The National Assembly had penultimate Friday transmitted the
details of the budget to Osinbajo.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, did not answer several
phone calls our correspondent made to him last night to ask why the signing of
the budget was being delayed 10 days after the document was transmitted to the
executive.
But in his reply to a text message sent to him, Akande said
his boss had given an indication in his broadcast, on when the budget would be
signed.
Osinbajo had stated in the broadcast thus: “And the
implementation of our 2017 budget, which will soon be signed into law, will
bring added impetus to our ongoing economic recovery.”
By Isiaka Wakili
