Reps query Buhari’s budget figures, N20bn consultancy votes:

 
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Leo Ogor, has said the sum total of the adjusted 2016 Appropriation Act submitted to the National Assembly, is N6.3tn and not N6.07tn as indicated by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The first budget that Buhari submitted to the federal lawmakers on December 22 had a total figure of N6.08tn.
After the “corrections” that the President did to the estimates last week, the figure dropped to N6.07tn, a figure Ogor argued was still wrong.Ogor, a lawmaker from Delta State, told the House, “This is an incomplete budget in which the figures do not tally.
“We have done our calculations of the details and we found that the budget Mr. President presented is N6.3tn, not N6.07tn.
“What happened to the balance? We need to know why there is this difference. The figure is not correct.”Besides, Ogor argued that the budget was in breach of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, which provided that the budget details of major governmental agencies should be attached to the national budget before presentation to the National Assembly.

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