Senators on Tuesday complained of poor national planning in Nigeria.
While they praised other African nations like Rwanda for proper national planning, the lawmakers complained of wastage in Nigeria’s annual budget.
In the past years, save for this year, the executive has complained about the legislature increasing the proposed annual budget with suspicious allocations. “Without a visionary budget-driven national development plan, growth strategies and the respective development, MDAs will continue to fall short of achieving their goals and projects will have little or no purpose,” she said.Lawmakers took turns to contribute to the motion. This is even as they all lamented lack of direction and national planning for the annual budget of the country.
He referred to the Fiscal Responsibility Act for 2007, which he said, “tells a country what national planning is and what to do when budget comes”. He complained about how heads of agencies “from a state”, prepare budget for constituents of another state – not knowing the needs of the people.
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