Senate justifies exclusion of reporters from budget defence sessions

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In a bid to justify budget defence meetings held behind closed doors, members of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs have

Since the commencement of the budget defence, most of the committees have held behind closed doors. Some of them are committees on Defence, Ecology, Primary Health, Public Accounts, among others.

“On the issue of budget defence, it is not like they want to shroud these things in secrecy but also let’s face it, serious issues of budget defence, looking at figures, adjust here and there, it is necessary to be …. It is not secrecy,” he said. “If you want to discuss things seriously, genuinely and factually, it is better to do it behind closed doors. Let me land. The press can come for the introduction speech, sometimes depending on the nitty-gritty, they need to have their privacy to do it and at the end of the day, call the press to say what they have done.

 

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