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Budget Padding: Analyst Wants FG To Prosecute Lawmakers

The on-going impasse be
tween the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and some members of the House over the 2016 National Budget padding has continued to generate reactions.
A Port Harcourt based Public Affairs Analyst, Mr Binoye |Sunday in an exclusive interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt yesterday said their activities had shown gross covetousness, and therefore deserved to be suspended, their mandate withdrawn by their constituents while they face prosecution for financial crime.
Sunday, who described the alleged shoddy deals as a shame and fraudulent act in the history of Nigeria, and called on President Muhamadu Buhari to quickly swing into action with his anti-corruption war and bring to book all those who are involved in the padding, adding that there should be no sacred cow, no matter how highly placed in the society or political party he or she belonged to in the house.
According to him, the glaring evidences had clearly indicated that corruption cannot be erased in the present administration, and further called on President to be careful and march words with action to further prove to all Nigerians that his government had zero tolerance for corruption in the country.
“No matter the war of words by the parties concerned, there is no reason for members of the House of Representatives to pad the 2016 budget”, he maintained, stressing that their mandate should be withdrawn by their electorate to serve as deterrent to others.
“President Muhamadu Buhari should march wards with action over his anti-corruption war in the country, in order to prove to the people of Nigeria that he is truly out to ensure corrupt-free society”, Sunday posited.
It would be recalled that some committee members of the House of Representative padded the 2016 budget with over N48 billion.
Collins Barasimiye