Senator Shehu Sani Advises On How To Stop Budget Padding in Nigeria
A former Lawmaker from Kaduna State, Senator Shehu Sani has provided a piece of advice on how to stop budget padding by lawmakers in Nigeria.
In a post on social media X on Tuesday, Sani said, “The only way to stop budget padding is to make a law that prohibits Lawmakers from tempering with budgets presented by Ministries Departments and Agencies,” the senator’s tweet partly said.
But in a quick addition, he said that he doubted if lawmakers would be willing to make laws to stop such acts, or that such a bill would be allowed to scale through the legislative process.
“…but I don’t know who will make that law or how it can even pass the first reading,” he added.
Didactic Information Hut reports that Senator Sani’s advice is coming ahead of the meeting of the Appropriations Committee with the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Minister of Budget & Economic Planning and DG, Budget Office of the Federation, which is scheduled for Tuesday, 7th January 2025.
In addition, the budget defence of Appropriations Sub-committees with relevant MDAs will be held from Wednesday 8th – Wednesday 15th January 2025.
There has been allegations of padding with every budget submitted to the National Assembly in Nigeria.
