The
National Assembly has asked the minister of Finance to appear before to
it to explain the discrepancies in the 2016 national budget.
Kemi Adeosun
The Senate and the House of Representatives Joint Committee on
Appropriation has summoned the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun and her
Budget and Planning counterpart, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma to appear
before it to explain the reasons behind the controversies and
discrepancies of figures in the 2016 budget proposal.
According to Daily Post, this was disclosed by the Chairman of the
House Committee on Capital Markets and other institutions, Tajudeen
Yusuf, after an interactive session with the Investment and Securities
Tribunal IST, yesterday.
Yusuf also stated that the National Assembly would hold the Budget
Office of the Federation responsible for the several mistakes and
padding observed in the 2016 budget document.
“We took the budget of the IST, which is the investment court,
unfortunately we realised what was contained in the 2016 proposal was
just the exact copy of the 2015 appropriation; word for word and figure
for figure.” Yusuf said.
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