The Senate and House Joint Committee on Appropriation has detected fresh errors in the 2016 budget, it has been revealed.
It was gathered that the errors were responsible for the failure of the committee to present its report to the two chambers of the National Assembly on Wednesday as it had promised as the dliberation hits 3 month
Investigations, however, showed that the errors would not affect the plan of the National Assembly to transmit the budget to President Muhammadu Buhari before Easter as efforts were being made to correct them.
For example, in 2013, the sum of N527,000,000 was budgeted for the item; in 2014, N1,161,356,582 was allocated to the same item; in 2015, N316,420,274 was budgeted for it; and N1,710,322,610 is to be spent on the procurement and installation of security system in the SGF office in 2016.It was learnt that one of the anomalies detected was in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, where provisions had been made for procurement and installation of security systems every year since 2013.
The committee also detected items without project locations in the Ministry of Works, Power and Housing (headquarters).
Such projects include the construction of a block of three classrooms at the cost of N85,592,483; construction of a maternity centre for N91,124,858; and the allocation of N172,623,767 for the building of skill acquisition centres.
The committee pointed out that oversight function would not be possible without project locations.
It was learnt that the committee also discovered anomalies in the allocation of large amounts of money for the rehabilitation and repair of office buildings as well as purchase of office items and fittings.
Not less than N21bn was allocated to such repairs and purchase at the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government.
The committee also detected duplication of items. For example, N2.3bn was earmarked for former heads of state in the service wide vote of the Ministry of Budget and Planning, while N400,190,000 was allocated to the affairs of the former heads of state in the SGF office.
Other examples of duplication include allocation of N256,920,000 for the purchase of equipment, vehicles and furniture for the National Bureau of Statistics and the N230,705,000 by the NBS for the same purpose.
It was also learnt that the committee discovered instances where allocations for the purchase of items were made without stating the quantities to be bought.
Such include the construction of solar boreholes at the cost of N140m in the Ministry of Works, Power and Housing and in the National Power Training Institute, N81m was budgeted for operational vehicles.
The committee described some items as curious. These include the allocation of N340m for wildlife conservation at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and N150m for growing girls and women project at the Federal Road Maintenance Agency.
Another curious budgetary item is the refund of N2,479,581,721 to states for federal roads, which was placed under the National Intelligence Agency.
When contacted, the Senate spokesperson, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, said the errors had been corrected at the committee stage.
He said that there were no fresh errors and challenged anyone with contrary information to publish the source.
Abdullahi said, “The errors in the budget were identified at the various committee levels. The Appropriation committees of both chambers had jointly scrutinised the document and had come up with an error-free copy.
“As a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, I can confirm to you that I am not aware of any fresh error discovered after the joint committee of the two chambers had worked on the budget.
“I challenge anyone with contrary information to publish it together with the source.”
But opposition party lawmakers said that the report was not submitted because there were still areas to be re-touched.
For example, the Minority Leader of the House, Mr. Leo Ogor, said the report was undergoing “finishing touches.”
Ogor added, “There are areas that require finishing touches. It will cut across several parts of the budget.
“But, I know it is something that will be quickly sorted out and the report will be laid by the grace of God tomorrow (today).”
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Change is still very far from us

Nigeria is failed country.

These errors are too much to be ignored.

I think if this budget was not padded; it should not be more than 5trillion naira.

#BudgetOfYam

apatuku:
Nigeria is failed country.

Buhari is a failed presidiot.

Can anything good come out from daura?
Well I'm not surprise'm

dis BUBU own don too much oh, anyway enjoy ur last tenure while i make FP.

Hmmm...

mycar:
Change is still very far from us

You can say that again

This senate is just a mess. This guys are plain lazy. Whn it's time to pass d budget nw, they've found more errors cos saraki trials continues.
Truth be told here plainly, saraki nd his loyalists re using the 2016 budget as a bargaining chip and this is killing the country.
3rd month nw nd d country has no working budget. How d country wan take grow.
Nw is the time to tell the senate that enough is enough. Them no fit use their own spoil our own. Period!!!

Buhari is nonchalant, if only he paid more attention to the budget rather than travelling to every country

mycar:
Change is still very far from us

With the kind of mindset we have & a teeming mass of non readers, change is indeed far!!...

For example, in 2013 the sum of N527,000,000 was budgeted for the item; in 2014, N1,161,356,582 was allocated to the same item; in 2015 N316,420,274 was budgeted for it; and N1,710,322,610 is to be spent on the procurement and installation of security system in the SGF office in 2016.It was learnt that one of the anomalies detected was in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, where provisions had been made for procurement and installation of security systems every year since 2013.

For 3 straight years, same item was budgeted for!!
Everyone can make their deductions....

Little wonder the budget office people live like lords of the manor!!

It took the senate 3 whole months to discover this? Really?

Saraki & his co travelers can continue playing Ten-Ten with the fortunes of Nigerians with all these delay tactics... The state of the Nation is like rainfall in a particular radius, Everyone gets wet,so his supporters should think am well well..

Telltimes isn't a "credible" source BTW...

Buhari the dullard is a disgrace to his fellow dullard and his zombies supporters.

truly truly this is a budget of YAM

This whole thing is a big mess, for the past Three months NASS discovered errors. If not for incompetence why not spot out all grey areas and pass the budget so that the hardship experienced by Nigerians can be reduced. Infact who do these politicians do sef?

Na wa o