Former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Okoi Obono-Obla, has blamed the padding of budgets by Nigerian legislators on the excessive demands and undue pressure from the populace.
The former Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), who stated this in an interview on Sunday in Calabar, said high expectations from constituents and the pressure to deliver by the lawmakers, force them to jerk up budgets.
Obono-Obla said the average Nigerian electorate expects his legislator to do everything for him and in the frenzy to satisfy their “greed and insatiability”, the lawmaker is forced to play to the gallery and want to compete with the executive by veering into areas traditionally carved and reserved for the executive.
