Senate President, David Mark has warned President Goodluck Jonathan against seeing the National Assembly as “a mere mechanical rubber-stamp that must robotically pass budget estimates as presented.”
Mark stated this in his opening remarks at the presentation of the 2013 budget estimates by President Jonathan to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday in Abuja.
Insisting that they would continue to make input to Appropriation Bills as constitutionally provided, the Senate President said: "Once the estimates are so laid, their consideration becomes subject to the constitutionally prescribed modes of exercising legislative power.”
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