Budget: More drama as presidency seeks deal with National Assembly

– The 2016 budget has witnessed series of controversies since it was submitted to the National Assembly in December 2015

– The presidency has moved to settle grey areas in the 2016 appropriation bill

The presidency has reached out to the leadership of the National Assembly for a common ground on that would help resolve issues in contention on the 2016 budget.

Buhari, Osinbajo and Udoma going through the 2016 budget

Garba shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity disclosed this while speaking with Daily Trust on Sunday, April 17.

“We have reached out to the leadership of the National Assembly on how to reach a preliminary agreement with them on the grey areas to see how the issues in contention will be sorted out. It is when we reach a common ground that the next thing will be done,” he said.

Shehu did not give details on the nature of the agreement being sought with the National Assembly.

Meanwhile, emerging reports reveal that the controversy over the 2016 budget is far from over as the presidency has uncovered new list of development projects removed or distorted from the budget by the Senate.

There is panic among members of the National Assembly over allegations that some lawmakers distorted the 2016 by allocating huge projects worth billions of naira to themselves.

The legislators were alleged to have removed from the budget, the Calabar-Lagos coastal rail line project for which the president had provided N60 billion in the budget estimates, an allegation the National Assembly had debunked.

The FEC was also reported to have discovered that the amount proposed for the completion of the Idu-Kaduna rail project was also reduced by N8.7 billion.

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