Members of the National Assembly have
reportedly discovered 25 fresh errors in the
2016 budget while making last-minute
checks in preparation for the passage into
law of the appropriation bill. The items
involved are allocated about N37, 025, 238,
407 in total.
The Nation reports that of the amount, about
N21,623,323,649 was voted for office repairs
which has now been classified as
“avoidable” by the Senate and House of
Representatives committees on
Appropriation.
The committees were also said to have
drawn the attention of the ministry of Budget
and National Planning to the fresh errors.
Chairman of the senate committee on
appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, and
the chairman of the house committee on
appropriation, Hon Jibrin Abdulmumin, were
making frantic efforts Wednesday night to
meet next Tuesday’s deadline for the
passage of the budget.
The errors identified have to do with
duplication of budget line items; budget
items with quantities not specified; budget
items with no location; large amount of
money being appropriated for rehabilitation/
repairs of office /residential buildings and
purchase of office furniture and fittings;
budget items repeated over the past four
years; curious budget line items; non-priority
budget items; and wrongly classified budget
items.
A document obtained from the National
Assembly lists the breakdown of the errors,
including curious budget line items (N6,
411,661, 956); duplication of projects
(N3,567,605, 395); non-priority project items
(N5, 422, 647,407); office repairs/
rehabilitation(N21, 623, 323, 649).
“From the budget, we have discovered that
the vote for the generation of 700 MW from
Zungeru hydropower project was duplicated
seven times and titled
MOPWH161021632-40. For the same
project, the amounts voted are as follows
N750m, N113, 465, 000, N139, 426, 180,
N126, 624, 383, N93, 767, 500 and N160,
000, 000.
“The National Bureau of Statistics projected
to spend N256, 920,000 and N230, 705, 000
in the same budget on procurement of
equipment, vehicles and furniture. At our
session, we were amazed that we could still
be having two estimates for the same
project. Also, the Federal Roads Maintenance
Agency (FERMA) is planning to execute
Integration of Road Reference System with
N150, 940,000 (FERMA 18015998) and
N15,000, 000 (FERMA 18021621)
respectively,” the document stated.
The document added “With due respect to
SGF Babachir Lawal, we have realised that
those in charge of the budget of OSGF might
have committed blunders. For 2016, the
OSGF has budgeted N1, 710, 322, 610 for
procurement and installation of security
system. The same office budgetted the
following amounts in the last three years on
the same item: N527, 000,000(2013); N1,
161, 356, 582(20140 and N316, 420,
274(2015)

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Kwontunu

This is not the CHANGE we voted for. The same flaws that was seen in the budget presented by the previous administrations is what is reflected in this 2016 budget.
I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT GEJ's BUDGET WAS PHOTOCOPIED, THEN HEAVILY PADDED AND WAS HASTILY PRESENTED TO NASS FOR IMMEDIATE PASSAGE.
We won't prescribe to such mediocrity in our leadership. It simply shows this present crop of leaders are DULL, DULLER, DULLEST.

I believe dat b4 May nxt year d budget will b pass out n our Mr President will find sumtin to do rather dan z #ajana travel
God bless Naija