The Senate on Monday demanded a
publicly-tendered apology from Rotimi
Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation,
challenging him to show evidence that the
Lagos-Calabar road project was included
in the 2016 budget proposal sent to the
National Assembly.
“Otherwise, [Amaechi] should resign forthwith,”
the Upper House said in a statement signed by
the chairman of its Committee on Media and
Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, in a
reaction to claims by the executive arm of
government on the budget.
Mr. Abdullahi affirmed in the statement that the
Lagos-Calabar rail project was not included in
the budget proposal presented to the National
Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, and
urged him to sign the 2016 budget without
further delay while both sides work out their
differences.
He called on the Presidency to come clean with
Nigerians on the budget and avoid “surreptitious
campaigns of calumny against the Senate” to
cover up its serial errors, saying that the
legislature has bent over backwards to wring a
coherent document out of the “excessively
flawed and chaotic versions” of the budget
proposal submitted to it.
He pointed out that while the executive is
mandated to prepare and lay before the
National Assembly a proposed budget detailing
projects to be executed, the responsibility and
power of appropriation lie with the National
Assembly.
publicly-tendered apology from Rotimi
Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation,
challenging him to show evidence that the
Lagos-Calabar road project was included
in the 2016 budget proposal sent to the
National Assembly.
“Otherwise, [Amaechi] should resign forthwith,”
the Upper House said in a statement signed by
the chairman of its Committee on Media and
Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, in a
reaction to claims by the executive arm of
government on the budget.
Mr. Abdullahi affirmed in the statement that the
Lagos-Calabar rail project was not included in
the budget proposal presented to the National
Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, and
urged him to sign the 2016 budget without
further delay while both sides work out their
differences.
He called on the Presidency to come clean with
Nigerians on the budget and avoid “surreptitious
campaigns of calumny against the Senate” to
cover up its serial errors, saying that the
legislature has bent over backwards to wring a
coherent document out of the “excessively
flawed and chaotic versions” of the budget
proposal submitted to it.
He pointed out that while the executive is
mandated to prepare and lay before the
National Assembly a proposed budget detailing
projects to be executed, the responsibility and
power of appropriation lie with the National
Assembly.
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