BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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BUKOLA Saraki, Senate president, said on Sunday, March 13, that the breakdown of the National Assembly’s budget would be published next week.
The decision was made public in a statement signed by Mohammed Isa, special assistant on public affairs to Saraki.
According to the statement, the Senate president made the disclosure while speaking with a team of editors of the Economist, a newsmagazine based in London.
He also told the publication that details of the budget was in line with the anti-corruption stance of the eighth National Assembly.
He pledged that the legislature would not cover any form of corruption.
He also said that the budget of the Senate which had never been made public before would be published in line with the anti-corruption stance of the Senate.
“For the first time we promised Nigerians that the Senate will disclose its budget breakdown, the committee will make its report available by next week. We are resolved to break the tradition of one line item,” he said.
Saraki said that the Senate would partner with President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the success of the anti-corruption war.
He said that the red chamber had already demonstrated its commitment to anti-corruption through its unravelling of transaction fraud such as the management of the Treasury Single Account, TSA.
He said that the investigation the Senate conducted on the TSA saved the country more than N7 billion, assuring that the Senate would not hinder or water down any allegation of corruption.
— Mar 14, 2016 @ 12:10 GMT
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