JOHN AMEH, ADE ADESOMOJU, LEKE BAIYEWU and OLALEYE ALUKO
The Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project, the Campaign for Democracy, and a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), have berated the National Assembly for injecting N578bn constituency projects into the 2018 budget.
SERAP, the CD and Falana, in separate interviews on Saturday with SUNDAY PUNCH, said the National Assembly’s injection of 6,403 projects into the budget was unconstitutional.
President Muhammadu Buhari had, on Wednesday, while signing the 2018 budget, accused the National Assembly of injecting 6,403 projects of their own, totalling N578bn into the Appropriation Bill.
But on Friday, the lawmakers justified their action, saying the projects were injected into the budget to ensure geo-political spread.
The Presidency, in a statement on Friday evening, said the executive was surprised that with an…
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