The senior special
assistant to the president
on National Assembly
Matters (Senate), Ita Enang has distanced the
President Buhari from the
budget padding scandal
rocking the National
Assembly. According to Premium Times,
Enang on Tuesday, August 9, at
the national secretariat of APC
after a closed - door meeting
with the party leadership said
the presidency did not know anything about the scandal. The budget scandal surfaced
after the former c hairman of the House of Representatives
committee on appropriation,
Abdulmumini J i brin, alleged
that the speaker, Yakubu
Dogara, his deputy, Yusuf
Lasun , and two other principal officers “padded”
the budget with N40 billion. But Dogara has since denied the
allegation, even going as far as
saying budget padding was not
an offence He has also refused to resign
from office as demanded by
some members of the lower
legislative chamber. However, Ita Enang has absolved the presidency of
complicity in the scandal saying
the Appropriation Act being
implemented was the one
passed by the lawmakers in
March. “We are here on the invitation
of the party leadership of the
APC with my colleague to bring
answers to issues raised by the
party from the 2016
Appropriation and we have been with the party for a little over
three hours and we have given
explanation on every issue that
there was nothing, to our
knowledge, no padding of the
budget,” he said. “The budget as assented to by
Mr. President is the budget as
passed by the National Assembly
and that is the budget be
ing executed. “But as at now the party is
handling it as a domestic issue,
and all of us are enjoined not
to make public comment on the
details of it because the matter
is still under consideration. “So that is what we will want
to say for now, we will not
want to go into the details of
it so that we will not breach
the ethics of the party, the
directives of the party or pre- empt everything, any outcome
by the party.” When asked if Mr Dogara was
guilty of the allegation leveled
against him, Enang, was
however evasive saying it was
not appropriate to draw any
conclusion on the matter. According to him, “I will want to
say that we came here as
persons who work as liaison
officers on the budget and the
party had questions for us to
make clarifications and we have made those clarifications to the
party. “We would not want to draw
any conclusion. Please let us not
go too far and mentioning any
office. Let it be that two of us
have appeared before the
party. Find out more at http://davesblog.over-blog.com/2016/08/budget-padding-scandal-president-buhari-implicated.html

Episode 13...

My question is, the person that signed the budget didn't he go through it? and upon all the issues raised and the time wasted on this budget signing, and all the allegations from Amechi submitting and not submitting supplementary budget, Is it not enough for whosoever signed the budget to critically and carefully study it ? and remove any discrepancies?

I didn't call anybody's name ooo

The padding started at the executive...then the legislature showed them how professional they are in terms of padding.

Buhari the father of modern padding

Executive are the grand master of padding . Check all the presidential budget allocations they were insensitively criminally padded.

Buhari is a grand master of budget padding.

Politicians nor get shame.
They can do anything for thier pockets.