The senate has vowed that it will no longer treat the poor
implementation of the 2012 budget by the Executive as a family matter but use
all necessary instruments at his disposal to enforce full implementations of
the budget to the letter.
The Senate President, Senator David Mark stated this today at the
botched public hearing on the alleged poor implementation of the budget.
Senator Mark who was represented by the Deputy Senate President
Ike Ekeremadu faulted the claims by Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala that
the 2012 budget has been released to the tune of 56 percent while the actual
performance stands at 21.5 percent according to the record before the senate.
Ekweremadu also decried failure by the Finance minister to honour
invitations by the Senate on budget performance while mandating the Senate
committee on Appropriation and the secretary to the government of the
federation to ensure Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is brought before the upper chamber
for questioning on Thursday.
The Senate leadership may have broken their silence following move
by some group of Senators to move against their leadership over alleged undue
romance with executive at the detriment of public interest.
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