Senate now set to pass 2017 budget for Buhari’s assent next week

*As Lawan says nothing to worry about report of ‘missing budget’

Senate Leader Ahmad Lawan has assured that the 2017 budget would be ready for presidential assent by next week.

Lawan gave the assurance in an interview with State House reporters, on Thursday, after meeting behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said there was nothing to worry about the reported carting away of the budget document by the police during the recent raid of the residence of the chairman of the Senate committee on appropriation, Danjuma Goje.