The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has said it was not aware of a strange N33billion included in its 2020 Budget.
The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals has said it was not aware of a strange N33billion included in its 2020 Budget.It said the responsibility of the Office over the years has been limited to implementing the budget as duly approved and signed by the President.
In the final budget passed into law, additional budget line of N33billion was credited to the office. “The Office wishes to state that the said amount or any other allocation aside the duly appropriated figure is not known to the Office. “We therefore view the story and the insinuations therein as attempts to drag the Office into unnecessary controversies and would like to advise the media to endeavour to always cross check their facts before going to press.
The statement said: “The attention of the House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals has been drawn to a publication by The Nation Newspaper, with the headline ” 2020 Budget: Row over N33b SDGs’ vote” stating that the sum of N33 billion was included in the allocation of Sustainable Development Goals in the 2020 Budget without details being provided to the National Assembly and consequently direct the Ministry of Finance to stop release of allocation to the SDGs office .
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