 The Senate has approved the Federal Capital Territory Appropriation Bill 4224 fiscal years sponsored by Senate Leader of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Bamidili. The bill aims to authorize 1.1 trillion Naira from the Consular Data Revenue Fund, with £280 billion allocated for overhead, £726 billion for capital projects and £140 billion for personnel. The budget is 1.147 trillion Naira. The bill considers the FCT administration's revenue and expenditure forecasts aligned with the Federal Government's fiscal and developmental policies. The Senate highlights of the capital expenditure of FCT 2024 statutory appropriation bill. The total proposed FCT 2024 statutory appropriation is £1 trillion, £147 billion, £780 million, £610,283 Naira only, out of which the sum of £140,915 million, £3,856 Naira only is for overhead costs, and the sum of £280,527,373,668 Naira only is for overhead costs, while the balance of £726,338,232,759 Naira only is for capital projects, for the service of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. During the debate, Senator De Bruyne-Marau with deputies and its presidents presides the need for swift passage of the bill. I think we should give the bill an expeditious passage because of the challenges before the FCT administration. The minister was here and he wrote out all what he intends to do in terms of the security of lives and properties within the FCT, in terms of infrastructure. In fact, he brought about rollout issues to do with the innovations he wants to bring to bear in the FCT in order to change the trend of how things are done here. And also, by the way, the President of the Senate to show that the bill presented earlier than usual will be considered in the past to encourage FCT minister to advance reforms in the nation's capital. And then the Deputy Senate President to commend the Minister of FCT, Yesu Wike Siewen for bringing this bill for the first time in over 10 years, so early in the life of our administration. When I was in the 8th Senate, we used to see some of these bills coming from July, August, September, sometimes in December. So seeing these coming now is very highly commendable. It shows that there is a resolve on the path of the minister to transform the FCT in line with the endpoint agenda of the renewed hope of President Obama's tunables administration. So this Senate has noted its efforts and we commend its efforts and we hope that other paracetals and other agencies of government whose budgets are yet to be considered will follow suit and not try to bring their budgets in September or October because this 10th Senate will not stand for it. So we commend the Minister of FCT and we assure him and the entirety of the FCT area councils that will treat this expeditiously to enable them to hit the ground.