The Senate today (Monday, April
11) advised the Presidency to
come clean with Nigerians on
the 2016 Budget and stop
engaging in surreptitious
campaigns of calumny against
the Senate in order to cover up
its serial errors.
Reacting to claims in the media
credited to the Executive arm of
government on the 2016 budget,
Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi,
chairman, Senate Committee on
Media and Public Affairs, in a
statement in Abuja, said the
National Assembly had bent
backwards to wring a coherent
document out of the excessively
flawed and chaotic versions of
the budget proposal submitted to
the National Assembly.
He said : "while the executive is
mandated to prepare and lay
before the National Assembly a
proposed budget detailing
projects to be executed, it should
be made clear that the
responsibility and power of
appropriation lies with the
National Assembly. If the
presidency expects us to return
the budget proposal to them
without any adjustments, then
some people must be living in a
different era and probably have
not come to terms with
democracy."
"We make bold to say however,
that the said Lagos-Calabar rail
project was not included in the
budget proposal presented to the
National Assembly by President
Muhammadu Buhari and we
challenge anyone who has any
evidence to the contrary to
present such to Nigerians."
Since the beginning of the 2016
budget process, it is clear that
the National Assembly has
suffered all manners of
falsehood, deliberate distortion
of facts, and outright blackmail,
deliberately aimed at poisoning
the minds of the people against
the institution of the National
Assembly. We have endured this
with equanimity in the overall
interest of Nigerians. Even when
the original submission was
surreptitiously swapped and we
ended up having two versions of
the budget, which was almost
incomprehensible and heavily
padded in a manner that betrays
lack of coordination and gross
incompetence, we refused to
play to the gallery and instead
helped the Executive to manage
the hugely embarrassing
situation it has brought upon
itself; but enough is enough."
"This latest antics of this
particular minister of
transportation, Rotimi Amaechi,
is reckless, uncalled for and
dangerously divisive. Apart from
setting the people of the southern
part of the country against their
northern compatriots, it
potentially sets the people
against their lawmakers from
the concerned constituencies and
sets the lawmakers against
themselves. This manner of
reprehensible Mischief has no
place in a democracy. We hereby
demand from Mr. Amaechi a
publicly tendered apology if he
is not able to show evidence that
the Lagos-Calabar road project
was included in the budget.
Otherwise, he should resign
forthwith.
"Finally, by the provision of
Section 81 (4) (a) and (b) of the
constitution, the President is
allowed to sign the budget and
kick-start the implementation of
the other areas that constitute
over 90 percent of the budget
where there is agreement
between both arms, even as we
engage ourselves to resolve the
contentious areas, if there were
any. We therefore maintain that
even this contrived discrepancies
are not sufficient excuse not to
sign the budget into law."
"We therefore urge President
Buhari to sign the 2016 budget
without any further delay. For
every additional day that the
president withholds his assent
from the bill, the hardship in the
land, which is already becoming
intolerable for the masses of our
people gets even more
complicated. Certainly, as
primary representatives of the
people we shall not vacate our
responsibility and watch the
people continue to suffer
unduly."
www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/2016-budget-nigerian-senate-issues-strong-statement-warns-presidency.200561/

...singing,
There is fire on the mountain, and nobody seems to be on the run.....

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Apc change

In Edris Abdukareem's voice




NIGERIA JAGA JAGA, EVERYTHING SCATTER SCATTER,





POOR MAN DEY SUFFER SUFFER...

A house divided against itself cannot stand. We are watching as the drama continues to unfold

YEYE, pls which minister brought keke-napep & local govt roads. Is it amechi that want to bribe CCB with N4B? We are not fools

What do u expect from a nomadic illiterate cattle rearer

following

hmmmm

my fellow Nigerians, let us for once come together and make it known to our lawbreakers what we really want. they've so far divide and drag us from one messed-up situation to another since the commencement of this administration.

let make it known that "We Want Lagos KanO Rail
We Want Lagos Calarba Rail
We Want 2nd Niger Bridge
We Want Massive Infrastructural Development in Nigeria"

Lets not allow the NASS to turn Nigerians against PMB

impeach this bastar-d kunu sucking dullard man fast fast before he turn Nigeria to beyond repair.

Sunky200:
hmmmm

my fellow Nigerians, let us for once come together and make it known to our lawbreakers what we really want. they've so far divide and drag us from one messed-up situation to another since the commencement of this administration.

let make it known that "We Want Lagos KanO Rail
We Want Lagos Calarba Rail
We Want 2nd Niger Bridge
We Want Massive Infrastructural Development in Nigeria"

Lets not allow the NASS to turn Nigerians against PMB

Did your president request for all this directly or his ministers did?