As reports of the Appropriations Committees of the two houses of the National Assembly were being expected for consideration and passage, the news broke of a suspicious additions that the Ministries concerned could not explain to the parliament, on what the proposed expenditure were meant for. JOSHUA EGBODO writes
The alleged padding drama had started from the Senate, when its committee on Special Duties, in about a fortnight earlier engaged the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, during a budget defence session, where a question was raised on what specifically, an allocation of about N206 billion inserted in the budget was meant for. The curiosity of the panel was ignited when the subhead appeared rather unclear.
