Buhari not happy with details, summons Saraki, Dogara
Mr. President also frowned at the lawmakers for removing the money
meant for the Calabar-Lagos Coastal Railway, describing it as a slap to
his change agenda.
President Buhari is not happy with the 2016 budget detail that was presented to him by the National Assembly on Thursday. April 7, 2016, reports say.
Buhari reportedly made his feelings known in a meeting with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, House of Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and ministers, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Vanguard
reports that the President did not like some of the changes which the
lawmakers made to the 2016 budget, with regards to the removal of funds
meant for major national projects.
He asked the National Assembly to take back the 2016 budget and add the important projects which they removed.
A
source who spoke to Vanguard said Buhari reviewed the 2016 budget with
the leadership of the National Assembly and expressed his concern about
some major changes to the cost of some projects the Federal Government
had earmarked.
Reports say Buhari was concerned
about the transfer of funds meant for the financing of infrastructural
development, agriculture and socio-economic development, to what he
termed non-essential areas.
Mr.
President also frowned at the lawmakers for removing the money meant
for the Calabar-Lagos Coastal Railway, describing it as a slap to his
change agenda.
Reports say the ministers also blamed the lawmakers for distorting the budget.
Meanwhile,
there are indications that Buhari might sign the 2016 budget and send
in a supplementary budget that will accommodate the projects that were
removed by the lawmakers.
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