President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday, made good his threat to deal ruthlessly with top civil servants who altered figures in the 2016 budget thereby making nonsense of his zero budget plan. No fewer than 184 top budget officials were flushed out of budget duties and sent to establishments that have little or nothing to do with budget, as a punishment for their roles in padding this year’s fiscal document, now before the National Assembly.

A top official in the Budget office confirmed that 22 top officers from the Budget Office of the Federation were affected in the mass deployment. The rest were moved away from budget-related duties in other Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs. Vanguard learnt that out of the 22 top officials indicted in the budget office, four were directors on Level 17, six were deputy directors while 12 were Assistant directors.

As the affected officials were moved from their posts in the Budget Office, 14 other directors said to have been ‘tested’ have been redeployed to the same office with immediate effect. The order to remove the tainted officials from their previous posts to other duties, was conveyed to the affected offices by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, according to finding by Vanguard. All the affected officers, according to the directive, are to report in their new locations on or before the close of work today.

When contacted, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr. Akpadem James, confirmed the development but declined to give further details. It would b recalled that while in Saudi Arabia last month, President Buhari had threatened to punish all those who were involved in the padding of the budget. Apart from removing the director of budget, he also merged the budget office with the planning ministry.

: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/breaking-news-buhari-sweeps-off-184-top-officials-over-budget-padding/

All we hear is sack, remove, appoint nothing is growing about the economy.

No light, No fuel, No job, No Money, Nothing.

Still waiting for better days ahead.


https://www.nairaland.com/2986089/economy-gone-out-buharis-control

What?

don't just move them. investigate and prosecute them. let's know who sent them and jail them all together

I love Buhari.....

omowolewa:
All we hear is sack, remove, appoint nothing is growing abut the economy.

No light, No fuel, No job, No Money, Nothing.

Still waiting for better days ahead.

Old man,channel your frustration elsewhere.

Now thats what i call a president. . . . . . . . . . .

ORACLE1975:
What?

replace them asap.

Now all I want is light, fuel and other things will follow

corruption is deep in Nigeria public services and Nigerians are deep in corruption

i support PMB action

with this cabal of thiefs in strategic and important positions means failure to any government

hope the replacements will not be birds of a feather

Sweep. Lol

Mr president.

omowolewa:
All we hear is sack, remove, appoint nothing is growing abut the economy.

No light, No fuel, No job, No Money, Nothing.

Still waiting for better days ahead.

You Wailers are too much in a hurry.......soso complain upandan. Dont you guys know that CHANGE takes some time to happen?
Ask this my guys in the picture, dem go tell you say CHANGE is worth waiting for.

Nice.... PMB found his APC broom.

Redeployment is not sack. Stiffer punishment is needed here. I don't understand why somebody who partook in such heinous and disgraceful crime will be parted with just 'redeployment'. This is not how Europe took to institutionalize probity and discipline.

omowolewa:
All we hear is sack, remove, appoint nothing is growing abut the economy.

No light, No fuel, No job, No Money, Nothing.

Still waiting for better days ahead.

Can't you create your own job and make your own money. You are used to being spoonfed and you want more

At the end of his tenure, Buhari might be called all sorts of names both positive and negative, but I am certain nobody will ever call him an ineffectual buffoon.

Jonathan, I hope you're now learning how not to be a moronic commander in chief, even in matters that you also decried - like the NIS recruitment tragedy and the refusal of presidential orders by Abba Moro to refund the N1000 application fee, instead going ahead to buy himself a house.

Bode George that refused presidential orders at the NPA as regards the operation of private bank accounts for public funds, Yar'Adua made sure he became a convict.

Jonathan made sure everybody stole till they had nowhere else to hide it and required underground vaults.

A president who is scared of his own shadow cannot exert any authority.

Jonathan is a sissy, and we can all hear it in his voice.

Talk talk, now small action don follow finally.
Good!

They go hear am . . .

Hmmmmmm

Redeployment is not punishment. This government is still not in line.

omowolewa:
All we hear is sack, remove, appoint nothing is growing abut the economy.

No light, No fuel, No job, No Money, Nothing.

Still waiting for better days ahead.

exact same reason he must sack and remove the few holding the nation on ransome.

failure to do so means failure of his administration and masses keeps suffering

Civil service rules does not allow sack easily. An appropriate punishment would be to send them to a rural area with immediate effect and then monitor them for absenteeism. That way, they will live to regret their actions but who ever sent them would abandon to their fate.

Delphi:
Redeployment is not sack. Stiffer punishment is needed here. I don't understand why somebody who partook in such heinous and disgraceful crime will be parted with just 'redeployment'. This is not how Europe took to institutionalize probity and discipline.

All na lies, name them if u truly sack them and if u actually sack them make sure they go to jail. Mr lie lie president U guyz knows what u r doing

Honestly if GEJ has acted like this man, he wouldn't have lost 2015 election. Just imagine someone like Abba Moro or whatever he's been called remain in GEJ administration till the last day despite all his atrocity

U promised to prosecute them not just redeployment

Why on earth are they being redeployed as if they committed some minor infraction? Why not sack, arrest and prosecute?

All motion and no movement.

Poor civil servants bearing the brunt of exposed APC politicians criminality.

What happens to those ministers & their aides that are supposed to read through the budget document before forwarding to the president for final approval.

APC is a scam.

Propaganda specialist government...
PMB told the world when he visited Saudi that those involved shall get serious punishment.

Now there was not investigation, query, fair hearing and punitive or disciplinary measure.

This action can be attributed to hear say; instead of proper investigation on whose interest the budget office was working for...because this office and staff don't assess the money of fund so padded into the document, it is rather the Buhari's cabinet that will access it...so it might be the saintly ministers that influenced the padding...just as we saw Fashola skewing the capital expenses in his Ministries budget to favour the SW.

Redeployement to other ministries is never a punishment for a civil servant just as "transfer" is routine. They maintain their grade level, their ranks as director and their monthly salaries and allowance.

#so stop deceiving Nigerians APC/PMB

PUSIDRILA:


You Wailers are too much in a hurry.......soso complain upandan. Dont you guys know that CHANGE takes some time to happen?
Ask this my guys in the picture, dem go tell you say CHANGE is worth waiting for.

I don't know ooo. We that voted for him are having patience with the man, but them, why the hurry? We voted for change, but also knew that it was going to take a lot to achieve it, not something you do in a day. So, why the hurry?

What of him that presented it like a Golden boot to the national assembly?

BTW, If I were them, I would sue the FG for that, after all, the original budget had been tampered with and it was in the news, the evidence was there.
Anybody could have tampered with it, after it wasn't like that when it was given to them, else, they would have detected it and since nobody did,
then cash for goods sold under good condition is not refundable and any restocking comes with a surcharge.
QED!