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Buhari receives query on budget figures

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TVC E, POLITICS – The total figure of the first budget submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari  on the 22nd of December, 2015 to the federal lawmakers is N6.08trn.

Mr Leo Ogor, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives has said the sum total of the adjusted 2016 Appropriation Act submitted to the National Assembly is N6.3tn and not N6.07tn as indicated by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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The figure dropped to N6.07trn after the President corrected the estimates last week and Ogor still argued that the figure is wrong.

 The Delta State Lawmaker, Mr Leo Ogor told the House, “This is an incomplete budget in which the figures do not tally. We have done our calculations of the details and we found that the budget Mr. President presented is N6.3tn, not N6.07tn”.
Besides, Ogor argued that the budget was in breach of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, which provided that the budget details of major governmental agencies should be attached to the national budget before presentation to the National Assembly.
However, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Majority Leader (APC) raised a point of order in a bid to stop Ogor from progressing with his line of thoughts, but he was overruled by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara.

Before he was overruled, Gbajabiamila observed that whenever the 1999 Constitution was in conflict with any other law, the former took prominence.

He stated that the requirement of the constitution was that Buhari should present the Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly, which he had already done.

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