2016 Budget: Senators Attack Marafa Over Calls For Saraki's Suspension

2016 Budget: Senators
Attack Marafa Over Calls For
Saraki's Suspension

Six senators debunked the claim of Senator
Kabiru Marafa (APC, Zamfara Central) that
the controversies trailing the budget were as a
result of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT)
trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki.
According to DailyTrust, the senators: Tayo
Alasoadura, Peter Nwaoboshi, Rafiu Ibrahim,
Obinna Ogba, Isa Hamma Misau and Aliyu
Sabi Abdullahi in a joint statement faulted
Marafa claims insisting that the budget
controversies have no connection with Saraki's
trial.
According to the statement "What is
reasonably deductible from the President's
letter is that the current budget estimates
being used by the National Assembly is the
third version. How is this Saraki's fault as
Marafa claimed?"
It noted that "how can Marafa allude to Saraki
a sad development in which ministers
appeared before the National Assembly
committees and were disowning either as a
whole or in parts, the budget of their
ministries as it happened in the case of
ministers of health, education and information
and culture?
"The irregularities in the budget made the
February 25 passage date impossible and this
was a joint decision of the Chairmen of
Committees on Appropriation in both
chambers of the National Assembly after
consulting with the leadership of both
chambers. Marafa's claim is therefore outright
mischief and misrepresentation," the senators
said.

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