Good Morning,

Apologies for the timing of this message.

Most of you might have been hearing rumour about 2016 budget missing, please find below Statement credited to Senate leader. Senator Ali Ndume.

'The budget cannot be missing. A copy can be laid, it is a symbolic copy, the budget will be in custody of both Chambers. It cannot be stolen, it cannot be missing. Once the budget is laid in the National Assembly, it has become the property of National Assembly,'' he said.

On the visit of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to President Muhammadu Buhari after the report of the missing budget, Ndume said: '' Saraki's visit to Villa is for Senate to know the President's priority. We want to see how we can fast track the passage of the budget before the end of February. What is before the Senate is proposal, once the president signs it, it cannot be amended, we can turn the budget upside down, it cannot be missing”

Thank you and have a productive day.

Nawa oooo

so who said it was missing initially.
I think somebody was trying to tell the President that the legislators can frustrate the executive any time they deem fit but where shocked by the reaction of Nigerians.
I think they intend to delay the passage deliberately that was why they unanimously refused to bring their copies for discussion and when asked by journalist why they aren't discussing it the quickest answer their senile brains could produce is it is missing.
They need autonomy to squander the country's resources they way they want and Buhari body language states other wise and none of them is bold enough to come out to the President and Nigerians that they can't pass it, so the best is to look for foolish excuse.
I think we will have interesting moment in the future when we have politicians who want to be seen as altruistic while they are bunch of wolves in sheep clothing.