 The House of Representatives has passed for second reading the 2023 Appropriation Bill laid recently before the joint session of the National Assembly by President Mohammad Iboharri on Friday last week. Before it was passed, the bill was debated by members which may not be unconnected to the total sum of the federal expenditure of 20.51 trillion era and the implementation of capital expenditure of the last budget. Emmanuel Ehigene completes the report. In their various contributions to the debate on the proposed budget during plenary, some members expressed worry over the humongous borrowing by the federal government in the past years. They also raised concerns over the duplication of some elephant projects among the next line, which generally appears mayobalwa, jiren, and zin. Mr. Speaker, Honorable Colleagues, what is also sad is that the level of borrowing that has been done, last budget within 3.5 trillion, today we are going to borrow. The dub servicing we are going to do for next budget is going to be from 3.6, we are going to do 6.31. Mr. Speaker, that is one salient issue that we have not been addressing as a parliament with the national budget. That is the personnel cost. Mr. Speaker, let me call the attention of the committee chairman that every MDA, they have a surplus under personnel cost and it is now being investigated by the ICPC. So we must focus our attention on the issue of this personnel cost. There are a lot of things that are going wrong with the personnel cost. With the passage of the bill for second reading ministries, departments and agencies are expected to appear before the various House Committees to defend their budgets.