Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker, House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abass, have assured Tinubu that the 2024 Appropriation Bill would be accorded accelerated consideration and passage.

The two presiding officers of the federal legislature gave the assurance when President Tinubu laid the 2024 national budget before a joint session of the National Assembly, which also had in attendance top government functionaries and politicians.

Akpabio and Abass urged the president to bar ministers and heads of federal government Ministries, Departments and Agencies from embarking on foreign trips until the eventual passage of the bill, which they pledged would be done before the end of the year.

The duo expressed the hope that the executive arm would maximize the opportunity of the cordial relationship between it and the legislature by ensuring prompt appearances before the various legislative committees to defend their budgets whenever they were invited to do so.