The Senate has on Thursday passed the revised 2020 budget of N10,805,544,664,642.
The lawmakers passed the budget during plenary on Thursday, a day after members of the House of Representatives approved the same figure.
A breakdown of the figure shows that the sum of N2,488,789,433,344 is for capital expenditure and recurrent non-debt expenditure has N4,942,269,241,984.
The executive also allocated N422,775,979,362 for statutory transfer, while N2,951,710,000,000 was budgeted for debt service.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan during the plenary on Wednesday expressed his anger that the executive arm of government ignored part of the budget meant to take care of health emergencies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, Jibrin Barau (APC, Kano North), on Wednesday said the presidency refused to capture the N186 billion health vote as part of the entire N500 billion intervention fund for COVID-19 in the appropriation bill.
He said while N314 billion was captured as part of the intervention fund, the balance of N186 billion proposed for the health sector, was not.
The senate, therefore, passed a sum of N500 billion in the budget as an intervention fund for COVID-19 and a sum of N186 billion specifically for the health sector.
In the revised budget, N422 billion was fixed for statutory transfers, N4.9 trillion for recurrent expenditure and N2.4 trillion is for capital expenditure.
A sum of N2.9 trillion was earmarked for debt servicing.
The Senate passed the budget after it dissolved into the committee of supply to approve clauses of the bill.
The budget will become operational when President Muhammadu Buhari gives his assent to it.
