A lawmaker elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Barau Jibrin, says budget padding is alien to the National Assembly.
APC Senator says budget padding is alien to the N'Assembly
"What is [budget] padding?" the Senator asked.
Senator says budget padding is alien to the National Assembly
Recommended articles
![Tinubu at the Nigeria-Netherlands Business and Investment Forum in The Hague, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [NAN]](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20width%3D'100'%20height%3D'100'%20data-ring-placeholder%3D'1'%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E "Tinubu at the Nigeria-Netherlands Business and Investment Forum in The Hague, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [NAN]")
Jibrin, who chairs the Senate Committee on Appropriations, stated this while briefing journalists at the National Assembly shortly after the passage of the 2020 budget on Thursday, December 5, 2019.
The Kano lawmaker was making clarifications on the increase in the 2020 budget from N10.33 trillion submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari and the N10.59 trillion passed by both chambers of the National Assembly when a journalist asked if the National Assembly could be accused "padding the 2020 budget".
"What is [budget] padding?" Jibrin asked.
ADVERTISEMENT
"I don't know anything like padding. The National Assembly has the right to do its work and that's what we have done. That [padding] is alien to the vocabulary of the legislature," he announced.
National Assembly and budget padding
A former Kano lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin, introduced the word "budget padding" to all of us in 2017.
Jibrin accused former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, of allegedly padding the 2018 budget with his personal projects.
Dogara, alongside other principal officers were accused of smuggling projects into the budget.
ADVERTISEMENT
They denied any wrongdoing adding that it was part of their legislative duties to make changes in the budget.
Jibrin was suspended for 180 legislative days and later recalled.
JOIN OUR PULSE COMMUNITY!
ADVERTISEMENT
Eyewitness? Submit your stories now via social or:
Email: eyewitness@pulse.ng
Recommended articles
Excessive heat in Kano State may lead to heat-stroke, meningitis cerebrum
Tinubu says Nigeria, Netherlands partnerships will aid economic development
Tinubu mourns Sen Ayogu Eze's passing, extends condolences
Edo Guber: Major setback for APC as PDP poaches influential chieftain
'We know Wike is your boss': Edwin Clark fires warning to PDP acting chair
Cardoso what’s wrong? Nigerians ask questions as naira depreciates further
Hajj Commission thanks 'Christian Uzodinma' for being its pillar of support
Why our plane made emergency landing at Lagos airport, Air Peace clarifies
Over 75% of Katsina children are multidimensionally poor – UNICEF
ADVERTISEMENT
