The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Friday challenged the governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai, to extend his call for budget transparency in the National Assembly to other arms of government.

Mr. Dogara was speaking at the closing of a retreat for the management of the National Assembly. The retreat held in Kaduna.

The speaker reacted to a statement credited to Mr. el-Rufai, urging the legislature to make its budget public.
Mr. Dogara said governors should, in the spirit of accountability and transparency, publish how they utilise funds allocated to local governments and how they spend their security votes.
“I will like to challenge him (El-Rufai) to champion this cause for transparency in the budgetary process from the National Assembly to other arms of government beginning with the judiciary,” he said.
“What do they spend monthly as security votes, and if they can publish what happens to local government funds under their jurisdictions, that will help our discussion going forward.”
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Mr. Dogara said the National Assembly was the most “misunderstood” institution, and that no parliament in the world can win popularity contest and Nigeria’s National Assembly cannot be an exception.
“When, for instance, public discussions on funding of the legislature are being made, the entire bureaucracy is often completely discountenanced,” he said.


“No consideration is given to the fact that this is a special bureaucracy saddled with a multitude of ‘masters’ who must be equally served in addition to service to the nation,” he explained.
Mr. Dogara had earlier promised to make the National Assembly budget open starting from 2017.

sarrkii:
We In BMC Know That This Will Make PDP Think We Are Fighting Ourselves, But We Are Just Looking Fr Q Distraction For Our Gullible Supporters..

We Are Enemies Of The people.

MONITZ:
I think I am beginning to understand the grievances of these lawmakers,and it is that they re angry that they re the only ones singled out as being corrupt in the tripod of governance.. They know the executive and judiciary equally stink sorely and nobody is saying anything about it. Equally all the governors receive humongous amount and even go as far as hijacking funds meant for the L. G. A's and nobody is batting an eyelid... YOU ARE RIGHT BRO


"No legislature in the world wins in a popularity contest and "--;this simply shows that our legislators re not moved a bit or perturbed....

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MONITZ:
I think I am beginning to understand the grievances of these lawmakers,and it is that they re angry that they re the only ones singled out as being corrupt in the tripod of governance.. They know the executive and judiciary equally stink sorely and nobody is saying anything about it. Equally all the governors receive humongous amount and even go as far as hijacking funds meant for the L. G. A's and nobody is batting an eyelid...


"No legislature in the world wins in a popularity contest and "--;this simply shows that our legislators re not moved a bit or perturbed....