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Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by dave1614: 7:07am On Aug 10, 2016 |
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 |
Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by AngryNigerian(m): 7:09am On Aug 10, 2016 |
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Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by Achorise: 7:19am On Aug 10, 2016 |
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 1 Like |
Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by mazichika: 7:22am On Aug 10, 2016 |
The padding started at the executive...then the legislature showed them how professional they are in terms of padding. |
Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by mazichika: 7:23am On Aug 10, 2016 |
Buhari the father of modern padding |
Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by Luckylife(m): 7:25am On Aug 10, 2016 |
Executive are the grand master of padding . Check all the presidential budget allocations they were insensitively criminally padded. |
Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by pilotab55(m): 7:35am On Aug 10, 2016 |
Buhari is a grand master of budget padding. |
Re: Budget Padding Scandal: President Buhari Implicated? by Flexherbal(m): 7:36am On Aug 10, 2016 |
Politicians nor get shame. They can do anything for thier pockets. |
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