The Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), a public procurement advocacy group, condemned the national assembly over what it described as the upward review of the 2024 budget.
The Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development , a public procurement advocacy group, has condemned the interference of the national assembly with budgetary allocations under the guise of constituency projects.that the 2024 budget was padded by N3 trillion.The senate suspended Ningi for three months over his inability to provide evidence to back his allegations.
“The legislative power of the national assembly is to make laws, and such power in itself is not without limit, particularly on public procurement,” the letter reads.“The power had been sufficiently exercised by the enactment of the extant Public Procurement Act 2007, hence, any conduct of the National Assembly on public contracts outside of the extant Public Procurement Act/regulations amounts to abuse of power/over-legislation.
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