2024 budget 80% implemented — Edun

…as Reps quiz Finance, Budget Ministers connected Appropriation Act performance

By Gift Chapi-Odekina, Abuja

The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, connected Wednesday disclosed that astir 80 per cent of the 2024 fund had been implemented arsenic of September 2025.

He spoke aft a closed-door league with the House of Representatives Committee connected Appropriations, which besides engaged the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, connected the show of the 2024–2025 Appropriation Act.

Briefing journalists aft the gathering astatine the National Assembly, Committee Chairman, Rep. Abubakar Bichi (APC–Kano), said Nigerians were keenly watching fund implementation and the legislature owed them accountability.

“We engaged the Ministers of Finance and Budget; some acknowledged our concerns and assured america of their commitment. They promised that earlier the twelvemonth ends, Nigerians volition statesman to spot much disposable results. We volition proceed to show closely,” Bichi said.

Edun confirmed that the 2024 budget, which the National Assembly extended until December, was inactive being executed.

“Implementation is astatine astir 80 per cent. Since the National Assembly extended the 2024 fund till December, it is inactive running. We besides reviewed the 2025 budget, with peculiar absorption connected grassroots projects and infrastructure similar roads and irrigation that straight interaction citizens,” Edun said.

He further clarified that determination were nary discussions yet connected a supplementary budget.

Budget Minister Bagudu noted that lawmakers commended the Tinubu administration’s respect for the legislature and its betterment agenda.

“The National Assembly has supported each large betterment initiatives, including taxation reforms which are already yielding results. Today’s engagement helped place areas for improvement,” Bagudu stated.

The station 2024 fund 80% implemented — Edun appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.