The Chairman, House Committee on Public Petitions, Uzoma Nkem-Abonta on Wednesday warned President Muhammadu Buhari against assigning top government officials to read details of the 2016 budget before passing their finding to him to assent.
Nkem-Abomta who spoke during the laying of the details of the budget by the joint committee at the National Assembly said Buhari should be prepared to read the details himself, else he might still face the problem of discrepancies in figures he had tried to avoid by delaying to sign the budget.
As stated by Nkem-Abomta, if the President is to rely on Bureaucrats to read the details of the budget, they may still introduce distortion.
Nkem-Abonta, “Will President Muhammadu Buhari read the details of the budget by himself or some persons will look into the details for him?
“If he is not going to read the details himself, I am afraid, he may not avoid what he has been running away from -that there should be no errors.
“If someone has to do the reading for him, what is the guarantee that other errors will not be added? The President seems pre-occupied that he really cannot read the details himself.
“We know that he was once beaten and doesn’t trust anybody anymore. But, will he read it himself.”
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