Senate to inaugurate Standing Committees Wednesday

The ninth Senate will on Wednesday inaugurate its standing committees at plenary as it awaits the 2020 Appropriation Bill.

President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan disclosed this after a closed-door session on Tuesday.

The Senate had on resumption from its annual recess immediately went into an executive session.

Lawan said that the Senate resolved during the executive session to inaugurate all its Standing Committees at plenary on Wednesday.

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He said the Senate also resolved to await the presentation of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper as well as the 2020 budget proposals by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He, however, did not give a definite date when the two important communication from the executive would get to the National Assembly.