The Senate monday promised that the contentious 2016 budget would be passed before the end of February.
This promise was made by Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, as the National Assembly leadership read the new letter addressed to it by President Muhammadu Buhari on the budget today. Buhari had in the letter announced that there were errors in the budget that he presented on December 22 as well as the correction done on it.
Last week, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, announced that presidential aide on National Assembly matters, Senator Ita Enang, smuggled a ‘fake’ budget proposal into the Senate and insisted that Senate would only work on the document presented to National Assembly by President Buhari on December 22, 2015.
Speaking on the development yesterday, Ndume said having compared the new budget with the old one, there is a major difference as the executive had increased the number of projects in the new document but retained the overall budget figure.
“But what I can tell you now is that the budget that was submitted originally, there were certain integrity checks on it that made some changes in the quantity but not in the total,” he said.
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