 Another story, the president of the Senate goes to the Barbios Stanley Caution Ministries, Departments and Agency, MDAs not to adopt a lack of desiccable approach when justifying their budgets during its take-holders retreats organized by the Committee on Appropriations. Represented by the Deputy Senate President Senator Algebra Mbarao, Barbio emphasized the potential consequences of non-compliance by individuals or agencies in the eventual passage of the 2024 Appropriation Bill. However, let me state clearly that the National Assembly will not tolerate attitude from government functionalism. All MDAs in relation to issues surrounding their defences of submissions and our resolve to maintain the January to December budget cycle. I mean attitudes that are not in consonance with a zeal to the passage of budget so that we maintain that cycle, our budget cycle of January to December of every year. Meanwhile, the Minister of Finance, Wale Adon, stressed Nigeria's depleted physical space and the imperative need to focus on concessional funding and climate financing. Just yesterday evening, the IMF managing director, her opening statement was that with all the shocks that the world has suffered, Ukraine, climate incidents, COVID, which effects are still being felt, that the fiscal space is exhausted. And we agree with that. I agree with that Nigeria's fiscal space is exhausted. And the solution, as you probably heard earlier today, is that we have to focus on the concessional funding, the cheaper funding, the even free funding, and climate financing is the way. The budget in addressing the nation's economic challenges, Senator Solomon Olamileko, chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, underscored the event's significance. He emphasized its continuation from the 10th National Assembly's efforts to ensure an inclusive budget process for the nation and maintain the commitment to the January to December budget cycle. The essence of this deliberation today is more than just discussion on figures and not allocation. It is about ensuring that every NARA allocated is purposely directed towards the project and program that will improve the lives and aspirations of every Nigerians, guarantee our economic stability and growth, and overall build a better future for generations to come. Mr. Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC OLA, Olukayo Dei is calling for increased budgetary allocation to intensify its fight against corruption in the country. He says these will enable the Commission to enhance its operations and effectively tackle the perversive issue of corruption in the country. Olukayo Dei made his demand at the budget defence in Abuja, while also emphasizing the urgent need for increased funding and oversight by the committee. In 2023, you have 2530708600. Now in 2024, you have 1241237267500. A difference of 1,200,000 is something in the middle of the NARA. So this is a very big shift from what you have in 2023. Earlier, the Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Crimes, Honourable Jinja Obina, had noted that it is the responsibility of the committee to carry out oversight functions while promising to address loopholes in the agency. The issue of non-release of capital in 2023, as I said earlier, that the few capital projects that we implemented in 2023, which we are still implementing, they were not executed out of the release that was giving us all that the 2023 capital goal. The capital projects in 2023 were in 2022, capital alone over.