National Assembly Rejects Move to Add Its Accounts to TSA

Both chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly has said it would not be part of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) being implemented by President Muhammadu Buhari.

President Buhari had, during last Wednesday’s media chat, said he was having challenge with the National Assembly over the TSA.

Reacting, both chambers of the National Assembly said they would not be a part of the TSA as such would amount to a surrender of their autonomy to the executive.

Spokesperson of the senate, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said that the TSA is as an executive programme submitting to the TSA is surrendering autonomy of the Legislature as the first line of charge to the executive.

Similarly, spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Abdulrazak Sa’ad Namdas insisted that said TSA remains an executive policy.