 The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved budgets for the nation's security agencies, the independent National Electoral Commission and the ministries of works, agriculture, housing and others. That approval is sequeled to the supplementary budget submitted to the House by the President Bola Akhmer Tinabu on Tuesday. The President Bola Akhmer Tinabu had submitted a letter for the passage of the supplementary budget at plenary on Tuesday and it was speedily read and passed by members after the bill scaled first and second reading. The House immediately invited all the ministries and security services expected to get the funds to fast track their spending projects and operations for the last quarter of the year. Defense got the largest chunk with 470 billion Naira followed by the Ministry of Works with 300 billion Naira, next is agriculture with 200 billion Naira, FCT 100 billion Naira, FCT 50 billion Naira and the independent National Electoral Commission received 18 billion Naira to complete its preparation for the off-circle elections in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states. National Electoral Commission, INEC, 18 billion Naira, the total is 2 trillion 176791 286033. We have invited the government MDS to depend their submissions to shed more lights for their submissions and report back to the House whether we are convinced with their submissions or we have a lot of observations. But the President approved 100 billion to FCT or a minister. I had a discussion with the German appropriation this morning with the supplementary issue but he told me if our request would not meet up with the supplementary, the main budget 2024 appropriation, we are going to sit and look at FCT's request because you are coming today as FCT minister. A lot of people have seen FCT is changing, roads in FCT is now different from FCT that we know. FCT is a great funding. Some projects have lasted for 17 years, some have lasted for 20 years and you see a project that is started with 34 billion, being augmented to 154 billion. It's not healthy for the society, it's not hereditary. And anybody who hears that, we want to ask questions and let me also use the opportunity to appeal on the way of appropriation. If you have a project that is going to cost like 20-30 billion and we are propelling 200 million, we are just dashing money to the contractor. It's not desirable that such projects should be awarded because it can't even constitute 1% not to talk about 30%. Talk about the completion of rehabilitation and takeoff of the project. You agree with me that this one project, then something that takes so important and would help in digongesting our traffic situation. I've been there as I came on board, I'm the president, directed the day the Magrambas station heard you at the conference that you want to ride on this neutral line. Then I move on to, like I said, we have also the National Agricultural Growth Scheme, NAGS, AgroPocket, which is partly sponsored by the African Development Bank, where, like I said earlier, we have wheat, maize, rice and cassava for dry season, but we need to complement their efforts. The wear grilled and cleared by the House Committee on Appropriation with chairman and deputies of the affected committees in attendance to ensure that the money approved will be well utilized. However, the grilling of security chiefs and the police was done in closed-door session for security reasons as announced by the Appropriation Chairman.