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Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Abdul Ningi, has said that the budget being executed by the federal government is not what the national assembly passed.
He made the disclosure during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), where he noted that new things that were not known to the National Assembly were discovered in the budget.
He said, “The new things we have discovered in the budget were not known to us; we haven’t seen them in the budget that was debated and considered on the floor of the National Assembly.”
“For example, it was said that there was a budget of N28 trillion, but what was passed was N25 trillion. So there are N3 trillions on top. Where are they? Where is it going? so we need to know this.”
“There are a lot of things. We are coming up with a report, and we will show the president himself and ask him if he is aware or not,” he added.
“This is what we intend to do. We are to meet the president. We will talk to him about the Mambilla power project, Ajaokuta, and the river Niger dredging. We will talk to him about the Niger Republic. Recently, they said they would construct a dam; this is not good for us.” He stressed further.
“For the past three months, we have engaged consultants to review the budget for us. We have experts that are working on it line by line.”.
“We have seen the huge damage that was done not only to the north but to the entire country in that budget. We are supposed to sit with the Senate president to inform him about what we have observed.”.
“We want to show him what we have seen in the budget that is not acceptable; we will not accept them, and we don’t want the country to continue spending money on those things.”.
Due to the performance of the incumbent government compared to the later Ningi state, “things are getting worse as people are going through a lot of difficulties.”.
“We live in villages. We are going there to interact with them, and they’re lamenting seriously.
They have nowhere to go, so they have no one to express their grievances to than us,” he concluded.
