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How N1billion per member “project offer” stopped Reps from heckling Tinubu during budget presentation

By Umar Audu


In a last-minute negotiation to calm the frayed nerves of the members of the House of Representatives over tax reform bills, President Bola Tinubu has boosted the constituency project allowance of the lawmakers to a whopping N1billion per member.

Mr Tinubu on Wednesday presented a N47.90 trillion budget estimates for 2025, assuring the public that his administration would continue to stimulate the country’s economy through targeted fiscal stimulus packages, public expenditures, and non-inflationary spending.

The lawmakers had earlier concluded plans to boo and heckle “no to tax bills…”, “withdraw tax bills” during the president’s 2025 budget presentation before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday.

However, when the Presidency and the House leadership got wind of the lawmakers’ plan to heckle and boo the president, the House summoned an emergency closed-door meeting with all the members on Wednesday morning.

“Plans have been concluded to heckle ‘no to tax bills’ during President Tinubu’s budget presentation speech, but the lawmakers were quickly invited to a meeting with the House leadership at 9:30am on Wednesday,” said a source familiar with the detail of the proceedings of the meeting..

“During the meeting, they appealed to members to respect the sanctity of the hallowed chambers and the existing cordial relationship with the Executive, to shelve their plans to disrupt President Tinubu’s speech.

“They therefore announced that the president had graciously increased the constituency allowance to N1billion per member.”

Although the money will be padded in the 2025 budget in the name of constituency projects, legislative experts say it was a mere red-herring as the projects would be awarded to companies selected by the lawmakers.

DAILY NIGERIAN could not independently verify what the senators got, but sources said it would be in the region of 2 to 4 billion naira per senator.

In the 2024 budget, the lawmakers got from N200 million to N500 million, depending on the member’s closeness to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Abba Tajudeen or chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Abubakar Bichi.

In July, each senator of member of the House of Reps got N500m and N200m largesse respectively after approving the president’s request to jack up the 2024 Appropriation Act by ₦6.2tn.

The July perks, according to legislative insiders, were “padded” in the parastatals under the ministries of Agriculture and Water Resources.

When contacted, the spokesperson for the house representatives Akin Rotimi didn’t respond to our correspondent inquiry on the matter as at the time of filing this report.

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Nlfpmod

Nigeria otilor

Home of fraudulent activities very soon Nigeria will be a red flag to international communities. Why can't we give back good leadership

Trillions padded in the budget as allowance to be for lawmakers for them to accept the bills and forget ..

If previous news report of them are true then this might be true and if this is true, then Nigeria is on its way to a part of no return because out of that #1b, highest just #100m will be utilized and the balance of #900m will go under water.

But what do I know

dre11:
How N1billion per member “project offer” stopped Reps from heckling Tinubu during budget presentation





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Nlfpmod

Who is dailynigerian?.. Fake news blogger.


-Kiss the truth!

TossTos:
Trillions padded in the budget as allowance to be for lawmakers for them to accept the bills and forget ..

Meaning all those noises was for them to be considered in the sharing of the largesse?

Laslas money na water and e de flow away anyhow.

Thats huge

Na una dey elect Rep members wey dey useless

If you actually had good Rep members, this boost should go a long way for your constituency

God Bless PBAT

The source is not credible

No matter what try and look for how to boost your brain to understand that all hope is lost

directionless and visionless country. They muffle and drive visionaries into detention or exile and only look for avenues to legitimately steal evet penny tha flows into the country

the lawmakers got from N200 million to N500 million, depending on the member’s closeness to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Abba Tajudeen or chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Abubakar Bichi.

In case you didn't know, this is why your national assembly representatives decamp to the ruling party.

A bigger criminal has outwitted the lesser criminals in the gravy train corruption@ the expense of the nation continued suffering.

helinues:
The source is not credible

The same Daily Nigerian that did the expose on the Abdullahi Gandollar agbada dollar bribe stuffing scandal who is now the APC national chairman today that is romancing the druggie? Guy they always get some shame.

helinues:
The source is not credible

Do you want to eat source okay?