Following public outcry on when the present Senate will pass this year’s budget, the Leader of the Senate, Ali Ndume, on Sunday revealed that the Senate is working towards passing the budget before the end of March.
Ndume stated that contrary to Media reports, the Senate did not suspend its passage indefinitely, but only said that the 25th of February `may not be feasible.
He said the National Assembly was to pass the
budget five weeks before the expiration of the period set for the implementation of the 2015 budget, but that was not possible due to some errors.
He said, “We have not postponed it indefinitely; we are saying that with the developments that we are seeing as the time goes on, the 25th February deadline we gave ourselves may not be realistic.
“That is why we now said that going by this, it is not possible to say we will come back on 25th and say this is the budget; we are not saying that we have suspended it indefinitely.
“The reason we fixed 25th was because we wanted to have a gap of five weeks.”
Ndume noted that between now and the end of March when it is expected that the budget will be passed, the Senate would have fixed whatever issues that needed to be fixed.
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