The Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transportation, Senator Gbenga
Ashafa, has said that Nigerians can still scrutinise the content of the 2016
budget, which was passed into law last week by both chambers of the National
Assembly.
Ashafa, who stated this in an interview with our correspondent, explained
that any individual or group that believed that the budget was not properly worked
on by the lawmakers should wait till the document was published to make their
observations.
He explained that the National Assembly would make the 2016 budget open to
the public once it was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The senator, however, assured Nigerians that his colleagues in the upper
chamber and those in the House of Representatives worked hard to resolve the
issue of budget padding and other fraudulent practices discovered in the
document.
He said, “We have promised the world that we will throw the budget open to
members of the public when it is passed. Anybody who believes that the figures
are still controversial is free to point it out.
“I can however assure you that a lot of work had been put into this
budget. Experts had been called. Government officials, politicians and civil
society groups all made inputs before its eventual passage.
“I see the interest shown by Nigerians in the budget as a positive
phenomenon because without the enthusiasm, we might not be able to put in as
much effort as we put in.”
Source: PUNCH.
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