The House of
Representatives, on
Tuesday, said Governor
Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna
State published security
budget of the state, not his security vote. Chairman of the Committee
on Media and Public Affairs,
Rep. Abdulrazak Namdas,
stated this in a news
briefing in Abuja. He said that el-Rufai was
undermining and
distracting the national
assembly by his claims that
the N115 billion in the
legislature’s 2016 budget was for the 469 members.
According to him, the
budget covers among
others, salaries, allowances,
expenditure and running
cost of 469 members. “Salaries and allowances of
about 3, 000 legislative
aides and salaries,
allowances, equipment and
maintenance of about 5,
000 staff in the bureaucracy of the national assembly,’’
Namdas said. He urged the governor to
concentrate on governing
Kaduna state, particularly
addressing security issues
facing the state. Namdas said “as a senior
citizen, el-Rufai should not
overheat the polity with
tendentious and unfounded
outbursts. “We note that what Mallam
el-Rufai published was the
security budget of Kaduna
state and not his security
vote expenditure.