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The hard and soft copies of the 2016 budget documents President Muhammadu Buhari handed over to the National Assembly on December 22, 2015 have been declared missing, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today.
The Nigerian Senate was scheduled to commence deliberation on the proposed budget Tuesday (today).
But Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, shocked lawmakers at a closed-door session, when he told them the budget documents had been stolen, people familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr. Ndume, our sources said, explained that deliberation on the budget could therefore not begin until fresh copies of the documents were obtained from the presidency, the Ministry of Finance or that of national planning.
The Chairman, Senate Committee of Appropriation, Danjuma Goje, was subsequently mandated to lead a search for the documents and liaise with the presidency, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang, and the national planning ministry on the matter.
The Senators also resolved that the matter be kept under wraps, saying making it public could embarrass the presidency, the National Assembly and the country.
Our sources said senators of the Peoples Democratic Party accused the presidency of being behind the theft of the documents, an accusation rejected by their All Progressives Congress’ counterparts, saying it was too early to speculate.
Some lawmakers told PREMIUM TIMES they are suspicious that the presidency might have colluded with the management of the National Assembly to quietly withdraw the documents after detecting some discrepancies in them.
“Can you imagine this kind of national embarrassment?” one senator asked. “Documents that were presented to us with fanfare have been stolen.”
The spokesperson for the senate, Aliyu Abdullahi,could not been reached for comments. So also is Mr. Goje, the chairman of the appropriation committee.
President Muhammad Buhari had on December 22,2015 presented a N6.08 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2016 to a joint session of the National Assembly.
It was the first time in three years a Nigerian President would personally present a budget before the National Assembly.
But weeks after the budget was presented to lawmakers, there were speculations that Mr. Buhari had withdrawn the documents to enable him to correct some discrepancies, a claim the presidency and the national planning ministry denied.
In the budget, capital expenditure takes N1.8 trillion, marking a significant over 300 per cent increment from the 2015 vote of N557 billion.
According to the estimate, N396billion is voted for education, being the largest sectoral allocation.
The health sector gets N296 billion while defence has N294 billion.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/196643-shocking-2016-budget-documents-stolen-from-national-assembly.htm
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We support this. Let the Presidency spend more time to look at the budget. Let positive input go into it from the IMF recommendations. Let all luxury cars and unnecessary procurements be removed. Sai Baba. This is CHANGE.

There was a country

If the President withdrew the budget for more clarifications it should be done accordingly.




This doesn't speak well of Nigeria.

is buari trying to add more BMW to his presidential fleet
dis govt is a MASSIVE joke so after swearing heaven n earth dat govt had no plans to withdraw 2016 budget from nass following criticism of its contents, they still went ahead to withdraw it secretly How can d executive withdraw national budget without any form of communication Are they planning to do correction through d back door Dis is corruption.
see why we wailers say buari cant fight corruption
- impunity is corruption.
- Disrespect of arms of govt is corruption.
- not following due process n rule of law is corruption.
since buari govt is guilty of all d above, how can he fight corruption
Corruption cant fight corruption.

Dear Nigerians,
How did we get here

What a National Disgrace

Did Dasuki share it along with the $2.1 billion

Did Nnamdi Kanu kidnap it from the zoo

Oh sorry, I blame Jonathan for not making provisions for missing budget before he left

Mr Lai Mohammed,
Please give us some lies to save the day as usual

Nigeria Senate sef

Where is lalasticlala sef? I am sure you are not missing in action

Anyway, I am in the bush reading the budget ...come collect

The way things are missing in this country very soon the rock in Aso Rock will go missing.

EFCC and DSS are busy looking for stolen funds forgetting to guard the few remaining national assets.

We complain of Dasuki stealing Billions of Naira, behold the current government has stolen the biggest budget Nigeria ever had. Who shall the DSS and EFCC arrest?

Fake news

Very funny country.

Not surprised.. We've been used to hearing news of a whole billions of dollars declared missing. News of a mere budget sheet getting missing shouldnt come as a surprise to us. Nigeria is a joke!


Check my signature for ur customised wristbands.

So they mean to tell me that the budget just developed legs and walked out of the National Assembly??

Embarrasing. This shouldn't make headlines na. I believe there should be duplicate copies of the document in case of possible occurances like this.. so why make a fuss over it?
What is the intention of making a headline out of it? To make fun of APC and Buhari?
Why is Nigeria like this?

tell me sth

Lol..

This gov't is drama filled.

This really go a long a way to show how dubious our reps are in this country.. and some people expect other countries to take us serious.

How possible?

LOL! This should go down as the biggest heist in our recent history. This is national emergency and every single solider needs to be withdrawn from the frontline to enable a robust approach in rescuing The National Budget.

and the drama continues......
nothing we no go hear from this naija.

Nawa o. Hard to believe this

mmm

Adonbilivit

Budget has gone AWOL.
Warefa.........

Not from a credible source

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This is funny. Shey boko Boyz don dey kidnap budget too?

Copies should have been made now.
Maybe they want to add more expenditure since they are recovering more from looters.

Nigeria! I shake my yansh for you oooo

Wetin person no go see finish for naija.

As long as it is for benefit of the country, I support the withdrawal.

nigeria my country, na only nigeria this kind tin fit happen

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