2018 Budget: Group Urges Saraki.Dogara to Step Down

The Citizens Action to Take Back Nigeria (CATBAN) has faulted the alteration of the 2018 budget by the National Assembly.

The group stormed the National Assembly to protest what it described as “illegal insertions” to the 2018 budget.

The protesters held placards with inscriptions: "Our lawmakers are inserting illegal projects in the budget," "They now compel the use of their corrupt contractors," ‘The national assembly is not for armed robbers."

The national convener of the group, Ibrahim Garba Wala, said: “We call on the president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, to immediately step down from their offices as they have shown that they lack the requisite credibility and moral capacity to hold the position of authority.

“It is clear that the insertions are huge, which also signifies the size of the criminality behind the intent to hijack the budget.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has earlier lamented some changes made by the National Assembly on the 2018 budget proposal.

The president said that the budgets was proposed by the executive according to its policies and projects but regretted that the National Assembly increased its own costs.

He said: "I am however concerned about some of the changes that the National Assembly has made to the budget proposals I presented. The logic behind the Constitutional direction that budgets should be proposed by the executive is that, it is the executive that knows & defines its policies and projects."

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