According to leading online publication,
Premium Times, a senior member of the Buhari
administration has disclosed the reason for the
many shortcomings in the 2016 budget.

Premium Times reported:

Another top administration official on
Thursday gave PREMIUM TIMES further
details on how the government was
responding to the embarrassing budget
allocations.

He pleaded anonymity, and said the
government was avoiding publicly stating
its position on the matter for now to
avoid playing into the hands of its
critics.

The official said both the Finance and
Budget & National Planning ministries
were determined to effect the necessary
corrections and turn in a clean copy of
the document for approval.
He blamed most of the errors in the
budget on “over-ambitious civil
servants” in the budget office who
handled the preparation of the document
prior to the appointment of ministers by
Mr. Buhari.

He said by the time the ministers were
eventually appointed, they had no
sufficient time to properly scrutinize the
budget for errors, in view of the tight
deadline each of the ministries got before
the final presentation to the joint session
of the National Assembly on December
22, 2015.

Now recall, after his election, President
Muhammad Buhari took several long months to
appoint a cabinet.

Many Nigerians criticized the delays in the
appointments, however the President took 6
months to make the appointments and hand
portfolios to the appointees. These delays
resulted in some of the economic decline
Nigeria is presently witnessing, according to
analysts.

Respected economic consultant, Bismarck
Rewane speaking on Channels TV News earlier
this week said the delay in budget passage was
going to further slow economic growth as the
delay in government spending would not give
room for the economy to be stimulated.

The Presidency in seeking to execute damage
control has reportedly set up a “high powered
panel” to investigate what Nigerians have
dubbed ‘the budget of corruption’.
Premium Times reported an anonymous source
in the Presidency to have said:

To enable the budget to be cleaned up of
all the controversial allocations, the
official said a high-powered panel had
been constituted with a mandate to
investigate all observations and concerns
by individuals, media and agencies,
particularly the National Assembly.

“The presidency has ordered the
immediate investigation of all the
allegations and issues, particularly on
padding, raised by the National
Assembly on various ministries,
departments and agencies of
government,” he said.

“The investigative panel is expected to
critically look into the budget item-by-
item, incident-by-incident, with
particular attention to the reactions from
the National Assembly, ministries, media,
civil society groups or indeed anybody
that raised concerns regarding the
padding of the budget.

“All corrections would be made to ensure
that the budget was passed as soon as
possible. I assure you government is
working cautiously on the corrections
with the intention of correcting any error
or malfeasance spotted in the 2016
Appropriation Bill. If there is any error
whatsoever, it is being sorted out
straight away,” the official added.

http://www.theheraldng.com/ministers-did-not-have-time-to-screen-budget-properly-presidency/

We don hear

Ok. Make una bring it coming. Liar! Liar!! Liar!!!

Nansence and ingredients

The world (and time in general) does not care how long it took our president to appoint ministers. Life and the world will still go on.
As I write this, I realize that's a lesson to me too. Time will pass tottaly not considering the excuses we want to give ourselves

President Buhari should talk sense to his ministers. Though, I still believe in this government.

That's what we get when Buhari refused to appoint ministers until the end of the year and truly, what can they do when they rushed to meet the deadline.

Mr President and his ministers should be blamed for this rubbish budget though we should give them time to correct the sorry state of the nation Nigeria has found itself in. Nigeria will not change overnight with the level of the rot/corruption that is evident in our nation.

Its good we are criticising and firing our government on all cylinders. This will make the President and his team sit up and redirect Nigeria in the right direction.

I believe they will make more mistakes but at the end they will get it right.

Derz nothing u can say dat will ever cover up dis mess........u are d true definition of clueless and ineffectual buffon. Jonathan self dey learn for wer u dey wot a joke of a party smh



2016 budget of fried yam,boiled yam,cooked yam,roasted yam,pounded yam, even akamu yam.....all join.history have been made kudos APC.

Whose fault is that? Shut up, fix the budget and save us the embarassment

So since May 29th, you didn't know that you present budget thus, appoint your ministers on time? ...Anyway, great news for the zombies

Can someone just wake me up in 2019 already? I am seriously tired of this confusion. To refer to this government as "clueless" will be insulting to GEJ.

hahn:
Can someone just wake me up in 2019 already? I am seriously tired of this confusion. To refer to this government as "clueless" will be insulting to GEJ.

My brother, we shouted that this government should form its cabinet ASAP but we were abused and asked to wait for PMB to bring down his saints and angels from the heavens. It took him 5 whole months to form a cabinet..and this is what we get. ...lame excuses. ...ministers denying their own budgets? We've never had it this worse.

Pathetic

Association of political CLOWNS

It took the national assembly and citizens just a few days to start spotting the multitude of errors.

A finance ministry manned by competent people should have spotted these errors in a matter of hours.

Yet again Kemi Adeosun the incompetent, is displaying her stupidity. Of course the Mumu at Aso did not help matters by appointing his ministers months after his inauguration and being a dunce himself.

What sort silly excuses are they giving now, can't they admit the fact that the budget of this year is full of chronics blunders. Will these silly cabinets deliver to us the changes we clamor for

adjoviomole:
Derz nothing u can say dat will ever cover up dis mess........u are d true definition of clueless and ineffectual buffon. Jonathan self dey learn for wer u dey wot a joke of a party smh



2016 budget of fried yam,boiled yam,cooked yam,roasted yam,pounded yam, even akamu yam.....all join.history have been made kudos APC.

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You forgot jollof ricerice

dearpreye:


My brother, we shouted that this government should form its cabinet ASAP but we were abused and asked to wait for PMB to bring down his saints and angels from the heavens. It took him 5 whole months to form a cabinet..and this is what we get. ...lame excuses. ...ministers denying their own budgets? We've never had it this worse.

I believe the name "shameless" will suffice even though it sounds very much like a compliment.

Bros, abeg who we go vote for in 2019? These guys are obviously confused. How can a president who ran 4 times, a total of 12 years, lack direction to such a level? What exactly were his goals all those years?

Because you rarely hold FEC meetings

hahn:


I believe the name "shameless" will suffice even though it sounds very much like a compliment.

Bros, abeg who we go vote for in 2019? These guys are obviously confused. How can a president who ran 4 times, a total of 12 years, lack direction to such a level? What exactly were his goals all those years?

My brother, that's the power of propaganda and repeated lies. PMB had been gunning for this job for 12 whole years....but he never was really prepared to withstand the challenges of democracy in a complex nation like ours. He thought 'his integrity' was going to fix all our problems but he was gravely wrong- integrity must combine with requisite knowledge. Between 1984 and today, PMB didn't add ONE certificate; he's still the same lousy general that scuttled a democratically elected government.

The realities are in a brutal stark removal from the fantasies he fed his folks during the elections and before.

The budget of yams says it all....These folks were never prepared. The nation is getting worse off.

Blame blame irresponsible government doing the usual.

Big lie

Buhari wanted to steal through an over bloated budget but was caught by vigilant Nigerians


The eyes watching Buhari's every move are large and strategically position

Buhari won't escape this time around like 1984 When he stole $2.4b at an exchange rate of 50kobo per dollar

dearpreye:


My brother, that's the power of propaganda and repeated lies. PMB had been gunning for this job for 12 whole years....but he never was really prepared to withstand the challenges of democracy in a complex nation like ours. He thought 'his integrity' was going to fix all our problems but he was gravely wrong- integrity must combine with requisite knowledge. Between 1984 and today, PMB didn't add ONE certificate; he's still the same lousy general that scuttled a democratically elected government.

The realities are in a brutal stark removal from the fantasies he fed his folks during the elections and before.

The budget of yams says it all....These folks were never prepared. The nation is getting worse off.

@bolded is a more of a compliment. The budget of poop sounds more reasonable. Lots of political flies are already swarming in.

Nigerians will really learn NOT to vote based on emotional premises. First it was GEJ without shoes, now it is Bubu with his body odour language. Whoever is going to be contesting in 2019 needs to get his act right. Can't we start a campaign and impeach this dude? At this rate, the dollar will be N1,000 by July oooooo

Obiagelli:
Whose fault is that? Shut up, fix the budget and save us the embarassment

Sorry madam

We have banned you from crossing over to our Wailers organization that wails for a better democracy.

IBB once said every military regime is a fraud! Buhari is a fraud!

Asking for more time would have been reasonable

Obiagelli:
Whose fault is that? Shut up, fix the budget and save us the embarassment

is d fault of a corrupt system

There's no time for the expression of remorse, the damage is already done.

Baba, address the nation and withdraw that document now or watch all the hopes of getting it right in Nigeria unravel before your eyes.

A stitch in time saves nine.

#ActFast!!

By the way, the title is very misleading. Saying "presidency" is like saying the presidency has issued a formal statement on the incident, but what is being said came from an anonymous source inside the presidency.

#PoorJournalism.

hahn:


@bolded is a more of a compliment. The budget of poop sounds more reasonable. Lots of political flies are already swarming in.

Nigerians will really learn NOT to vote based on emotional premises. First it was GEJ without shoes, now it is Bubu with his body odour language. Whoever is going to be contesting in 2019 needs to get his act right. Can't we start a campaign and impeach this dude? At this rate, the dollar will be N1,000 by July oooooo

My boss, can you accept your general manager not reading the budget his various departments put together before coming to defend it in your office? I know you won't accept that as an astute entrepreneur. Governance is serious business.

Back before 2012, I attacked everything called PDP. We all needed some shift from the normal but I gave up when I saw established criminals jump ships to the APC and started blaming the PDP.

GEJ wasn't the best at all...but in comparison with PMB, Haba. .....As a people we are in a huge mess. PMB is already scheming for 2019.....

Naira will most likely hit 500/$ before the year ends.

Hahahaha! Lmao


Tell that story to your zombies