Lawan disclosed this in Abuja while giving a lecture at the maiden Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies.
He said the current National Assembly has made it a practice for the budget to be presented and passed before the end of December yearly, to ensure that its implementation commences in January.
Lawan also disclosed that the percentage of the National Assembly budget in the federal budget ranged between one point four-four per cent in 2019 to zero point eight two per cent in 2021, noting that the National Assembly has been grossly underfunded in the last four years.
The senate president further revealed that the total salary of a member of the Senate was about one point five million naira while that of the House of Representatives was about one point three million naira.
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