Senators to Buhari: enough is enough on budget row

 

Senators yesterday advised the Presidency to come clean  on the 2016 Budget. It should admit its errors and President Muhammadu Buhari should sign the document “without any further delay”, they said. The upper chamber also asked the Executive to “stop engaging in surreptitious campaigns of calumny against the Senate in order to cover up its serial errors”. The Presidency tried to downplay the war of words on the all-important document, saying the time for the President to sign it had not lapsed.

According to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, “We urge President Buhari to sign the 2016 budget without any further delay.
“For every additional day that the president withholds his assent from the bill, the hardship in the land, which is already becoming intolerable for the masses and our people gets even more complicated.
“Certainly, as primary representatives of the people, we shall not vacate our responsibility and watch the people continue to suffer unduly.”

Source: The Nation