Senate passes Rivers 2025 budget for second reading

The Nigerian Senate has passed the Rivers State 2025 budget into second reading.

The N1,480,662592,442 trillion budget was passed for second reading after reading by the Senate Leader, Senator Michael Bamidele Opeyemi.

Opeyemi said the Senate has since assumed the powers of legislating for Rivers State having been under the State of Emergency.

In his contribution, Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan said, there was a need for the budget to be legislated immediately so that the people of Rivers could feel the presence of government.

He said: “Mr President, I don’t know under what topic this document is christened, but I could see it is about a budget of the State of emergency.

I hereby support that the budget be pased for second reading so that the people of Rivers could feel the presence of government.

In absence of opposition to the bill, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio passed the budget through voice vote and referred it to the Ad-hoc Committee on overseeing Rivers State of Emergency.