The
accusations and counter-accusations over the 2018 budget continued on Friday
with the presidency accusing the National Assembly of greed.
The National Assembly had earlier on Friday
defended its alteration of the budget after an earlier accusation by President
Buhari.
However, in a statement by presidential
spokesperson, Femi Adesina, the presidency said the lawmakers apart form
increasing the oil benchmark for lawmakers’ interest, still cut funding for
essential projects.
“The Executive is therefore surprised that with
an additional sum of N170 billion Naira available for the National Assembly to
spend on Constituency Projects, together with the sum of N100 billion Naira,
already provided for in the Budget, that the National Assembly should feel it
necessary to cut allocations to important national projects, and thereby
distort the Budget, in order to further increase their allocation for
Constituency projects. How much is enough!” Mr Adesina said.
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