Senate President Ahmad Lawan has saidthat Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs are expected to appear before Committeesof the Senate this month to defend their vote in the 2020 Budget. Lawan stated this at the presentationof the budget by President Muhammadu Buhari, during a joint session of theNational Assembly on Tuesday. He said for timely passage of the budget,all MDAs should appear before the committees for the defence within this month.He added that the national assembly committees were ready to receive ministersand other heads of agencies for the budget defence Lawan said that the presentation ofthe budget marked another day of exercising the constitutional obligations andmandates by both the legislature and the executive as provided for in Section81 of the 1999 Constitution.