Lawmaker representing Cross River North Senator ial District, Senator Agom Jarigbe says his colleague, Senator Abdul Ningi, should have tabled his allegation of budget padding to the Senate for discussion during plenary. DAILY POST recalls that Ningi, representing Bauchi Central on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had alleged that about N3.7 trillion in the 2024 budget was not tied to any project.
The allegation, however, landed him three months suspension after the Senate deliberated on the matter during plenary on Tuesday. Speaking on the matter, Jarigbe, who appeared on Arise TV on Wednesday, said the controversial N3.7 trillion was later discovered to have been 'captured under the GOEs, judiciary, National Assembly'. According to him, Ningi should not have gone to the press to disseminate the alleged padding in the budget. He said, 'For the nobble Senators that decided to investigate the budget and even got a consultant to look at it, they probably decided to do that before Senator Ningi who is a leader of that Forum took it u
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