President Muhammadu Buhari finally signed the 2018 budget into law on Wednesday, but he didn’t hide his displeasure with the National Assembly for its alterations to the appropriation he forwarded to them.
Buhari had lamented that “not much regard” was given to “the logic behind the constitutional direction that budgets should be proposed by the executive” as it is the Executive that knows and defines its policies and projects.
Were his not for his determination “not to further slow down the pace of recovery of our economy, which has doubtlessly been affected by the delay in passing the budget”, the President, quite frankly, wouldn’t have signed the document.
What re these deductions — and additions, as well — in the proposed budget that may make it “difficult, if not impossible, to implement with the reduced allocation”, as claimed by the…
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