The Nation Newspaper Of culpable lawmakers and Senate's banana peel (II)
Unless we want to live in perpetual denial, we all know that there are fundamental problems with our budgets’ clearing mechanisms. Where Nigerians had expected the National Assembly to wield the big stick and stop the excesses of the executive, what they get yearly is an annual budget stuffed with all manners of sub-heads that often take care of the interests of members of the legislative arm.
Those nuggets offered by Ningi are banana peels that could ultimately lead to the ‘civilian coup’ that Opeyemi said he assumed was the ultimate goal of Ningi and his northern friends. Let no one bank on it that it is a northern agenda. When the lawmakers start getting uncomfortable with the revelations that some senators are living large and getting fed while they can hardly impact lives in their communities, the geo-political zone where the first shot would be fired becomes irrelevant.
As far back as 2017, Obasanjo called for a thorough investigation of a budget padding scandal in the National Assembly. He said: “Budget padding must not go unpunished. It is a rarity which is a regular and systemic practice. Nobody should throw wool over the faces of Nigerians. Ganging up and intimidating the lives of whistleblowers is deplorable and undemocratic. What of the so-called constituency projects which is a veritable source of corruption.
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