The Chairman, Senate Committee on Land
Transportation, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has said
that Nigerians can still scrutinise the content of the
2016 budget, which was passed into law last week
by both chambers of the National Assembly.


Ashafa, who stated this in an interview with our
correspondent, explained that any individual or
group that believed that the budget was not properly
worked on by the lawmakers should wait till the
document was published to make their
observations.


He explained that the National Assembly would
make the 2016 budget open to the public once it
was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The senator, however, assured Nigerians that his
colleagues in the upper chamber and those in the
House of Representatives worked hard to resolve
the issue of budget padding and other fraudulent
practices discovered in the document.


He said, “We have promised the world that we will
throw the budget open to members of the public
when it is passed. Anybody who believes that the
figures are still controversial is free to point it out.
“I can however assure you that a lot of work had
been put into this budget. Experts had been called.
Government officials, politicians and civil society
groups all made inputs before its eventual passage.


“I see the interest shown by Nigerians in the budget
as a positive phenomenon because without the
enthusiasm, we might not be able to put in as
much effort as we put in.”


www.punchng.com/2016-budget-still-open-for-scrutiny/

Let them quickly executive this budget.

Does anyone know the time assent will take?

We are waiting.