Misery! Soft n Hard Budget Document Disappeared

What’s the misery surrounding the disappearance of hard and soft copies of the 2016 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly last December 2015 from the senate.

Lack of budget document had led to the failure of the Senate to commence formal deliberations on the budget yesterday.

The controversy was further stoked at a closed-door session of the Senate where the issue reportedly split senators along partisan lines with Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators accusing Presidency officials of conspiring with the National Assembly bureaucracy to steal the budget document.

Following the closed-door session, President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki proceeded to the Presidential Villa where he met President Muhammadu Buhari supposedly on the issue.

PDP senators who accused the presidency of silently withdrawing the budget to revise down supposedly outrageous items in the budget bill were last night locked in a meeting where they were believed to be discussing the issue.

The assertion of the missing budget document was, however, quickly dismissed by the Presidency which last night denied withdrawing the budget. Besides, the Presidency deposed that hundreds of copies of the budget document have been shipped to the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Another source confirmed it was some sort of mix up that the House of Representatives will make the budget document available and would be distributed today.