Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, a former Senate Chief Whip, has stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not in charge of suddenly raising the 2024 budget.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Kalu disclosed this information to reporters soon after the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ebonyi State Chairman Stanley Okoro Emegha’s Thanksgiving celebration at Edda.
Kalu claimed that the National Assembly was to blame for the event rather than Tinubu.
He claims that a lot of expenses that are not included in the budget would be incurred, such as the census.
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He said, “I can tell you, it’s not the President that jerked up the budget to N28.2 trillion but the National Assembly, of which I’m a ranking member of the Appropriation Committee.
“We want to do census and the government has spent billions of naira on it, and it was not captured in the budget.
“They brought new figures from the National Population Commission and other relevant bodies and that’s why the budget went up.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not know anything about it. We have been working on the budget and so, it wasn’t from the President. If it is the fault of the President, I will tell you that it is his fault. I have just given you one of the reasons why the budget was jerked up.
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“The National Population commission, NPC, has spent so much money on the census, and this census is supposed to be conducted soon but they lack money to do it, and if they don’t do it, Nigeria will be losing two hundred and eighty nine billion. So, we have to put that money in the budget.”
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