Their is
a political rubble in the political atmosphere of the country as a member of
the federal house of representatives and Chairman federal house committee on
appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, had fired a salvo at the executive arm of
government and particularly the minister of transport Rotimi Amaechi, saying he
does not understand his budget.
SOURCE:-Oluniyi Hisamotu | Topup9ja Staff
SOURCE:-Oluniyi Hisamotu | Topup9ja Staff
This
followed the refusal of President Buhari to assent to the budget that was sent
to the executive by the National Assembly after it was discovered the
Calabar-Lagos rail project has been exempted.
Speaking
in an interview with Channels Television,Hon. Jibrin said the executive arm of
government does not even have a budget. “Let me say this very straight, I do
not believe that the executive arm of government really understands the
document they sent to the national assembly, or they have even studied what we
sent back to them,” he said.
“Then
again, the president bringing another version to the national assembly. And
that very new version was what head of MDAs, ministers and the rest came to the
national assembly to disown. “
‘’So if
you want to look at it from that angle, you’ll say they don’t even have a
budget.” Jubrin added that Ameachi was still arguing on Sunday over a budget he
does not even understand, emphasising that Calabar-Lagos rail was never in the
budget.
“When a
statement come from that part of government, we should begin to think, do they
even understand the document? “Yesterday evening, the same minister of
transport, was still arguing with speaker at the presidential villa, that the
Calabar-Lagos rail was included in the budget. “What does that tell you? It
tells you that he doesn’t even understand his budget.
We are
having a serious situation’’ he quipped
“Ordinarily,
we would not have raised this issue in public, but this is an executive arm of
government that never had a budget, had issues, blamed it on the legislative
arm.” He concluded.
The
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, had earlier dismissed
reports that the National Assembly removed certain key infrastructural projects
proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2016 budget.
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