The chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Ibrahim Babangida, has adjourned the meeting on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy with ministers and heads of agencies.
According to Babangida, the meeting could not hold as the key players failed to turn up.
The lawmaker who spoke with journalists after the meeting was postponed, said their absence will delay the passage of the document.
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“We are here today, unfortunately, we discovered that almost all the Heads of Agencies that are key in discussing the issue of MTEF are not here; The Minister of National Planning, Minister of Finance, Accountant-General of the Federation, Comptroller of Customs, Chairman of FIRS, GMD of the NNPC, Director of the BPE, CBN, are all not here; in fact, the only available person is the DG of Debts Management.”
The lawmaker stated that; “we cannot proceed to discuss the MTEF In the absence of the key players. That is why we have to adjourn the meeting, we are going to give them a new date next week and we hope they will attend to our invitations.”
