 Or staying with the National Assembly, a bill second to amend the 2022 Appropriation Act is killed second reading at the Senate. The bill second to amend the 2022 budget by making provision in the sum of over 1.6 billion nerf or capital expenditure and over 43 billion nerf or recurrent without increasing budget deficit has killed through second reading at the National, at the Nigerian Senate. President Mohamed Buhari in a letter to the National Assembly dated 10 February 2022 underscored the need to remove all capital projects that were replicated in the 2022 Appropriation Act. He disclosed that 139 out of the 254 projects in the budget, totally 13.24 billion nerf have been identified for deletion. The President also requested that an additional provision for 2.557 trillion error be appropriated by the National Assembly to fund the petrol subsidy in a 2022 budget framework which was revised to provide fully for PMS subsidy. Leading debate on the general principles of the 2022 Appropriations Act Amendment Bill, the Senate Leader Senator Yahya Abdul-Hai gave key highlights of the amendment to include 11 areas such as funding to cushion the impact of the recent suspension of the petrol and motor spring subsidy removal and addressing the adverse implications that some changes made in the 2022 Appropriations Act could have for the successful implementation of the budget. Permit me to lead the debate on this very important bill which seeks to amend the 2020-22 Appropriations Act in the sum of 106 billion, 161 million, 499,052 naira for capital expenditure and 43 billion, 870 million, 532,044 naira for recurrent expenditures without increasing the budget deficit. Contributing to the debate, Senator Gabriel Sussuan bemoans the high tax expenditure in the 2022 budgets. Call that, Mr. President. Tax expenditure individuals or company. Mr. President, if we look at the tax expenditure in 2022, it is about 1 trillion and it is totally unnecessary. So, it is not just what the President has sent here. Let us consider those areas that can help them save money. President of the Senate, Akman Lawa, after the bill scales second reading, referred the same to the Committee on Appropriation for Further Work. 2020-22 Appropriations Act to provide for a total sum of 106 billion, 161 million, 499,052 naira only for capital expenditures and 43 billion, 870,592,044 naira only for recurrent expenditures and for other matters connected there with 2022 second reading taken. The Committee was given one week to report back to the Chamber in Plenary. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.