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Several controversies have emerged over the reported removal of the Lagos-Calabar rail project from Nigeria's 2016 budget.
The HoR member representing Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency Cross River State, Bassey Eko Ewa, expressed surprise that the Lagos-Calabar rail project that will benefit the people was removed from the budget.
“I am so surprised to hear this. How will it not be in the budget? The money that was appropriated to it, where is it?”
He, however, said that if the allegation was true, it may have happened at the compilation stage without the knowledge of the leadership of the House, even as he promised that lawmakers from Cross River State will take it up with the leadership.
Speaking on the missing rail project, Sen. Enoh Bassey representing Cross River Central Senatorial zone said: “Well, you know the National Assembly cannot remove it. If anything like that has happened,then I think the people to answer to that should be the appropriation people. And I think that is one of the problems with, perhaps our procedure of not insisting on our own to look at the details before it is transmitted.
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, denied that the Calabar-Lagos rail project was included in the 2016 Budget.
Speaking on his tweeter handle, he said the Lagos-Calabar Rail was never included. “How could NASS have removed what was not there? But the nation is being misled. All they, and those spreading the false information needed to have done is check the initial document sent by the Executive. Executive seems to favour a top-down approach. But this is not enough reason to mislead Nigerians on the role of NASS on the budget.”
Rep Oghene Egoh, PDP, Lagos, said the removal of the the Lagos-Calabar rail line was wicked and uncharitable if it is true because “we provided for both Kano and Lagos rail lines in the budget but I’m shocked that Lagos that is the business hub in Nigeria was removed. To me, we must probe deep into why it was removed because it connects all the oil producing states in Nigeria
Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Sunday Ogbuoji, said the allegation that the National Assembly mutilated the 2016 budget exposed the height of ignorance of governance by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal administration.
According to Vanguard, N60 billion meant for the Calabar-Lagos rail budget was not in the original budget. The Budget and National Planning Minister, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, successfully defended and got it included in the amended budget.
The HoR member representing Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency Cross River State, Bassey Eko Ewa, expressed surprise that the Lagos-Calabar rail project that will benefit the people was removed from the budget.
“I am so surprised to hear this. How will it not be in the budget? The money that was appropriated to it, where is it?”
He, however, said that if the allegation was true, it may have happened at the compilation stage without the knowledge of the leadership of the House, even as he promised that lawmakers from Cross River State will take it up with the leadership.
Speaking on the missing rail project, Sen. Enoh Bassey representing Cross River Central Senatorial zone said: “Well, you know the National Assembly cannot remove it. If anything like that has happened,then I think the people to answer to that should be the appropriation people. And I think that is one of the problems with, perhaps our procedure of not insisting on our own to look at the details before it is transmitted.
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, denied that the Calabar-Lagos rail project was included in the 2016 Budget.
Speaking on his tweeter handle, he said the Lagos-Calabar Rail was never included. “How could NASS have removed what was not there? But the nation is being misled. All they, and those spreading the false information needed to have done is check the initial document sent by the Executive. Executive seems to favour a top-down approach. But this is not enough reason to mislead Nigerians on the role of NASS on the budget.”
Rep Oghene Egoh, PDP, Lagos, said the removal of the the Lagos-Calabar rail line was wicked and uncharitable if it is true because “we provided for both Kano and Lagos rail lines in the budget but I’m shocked that Lagos that is the business hub in Nigeria was removed. To me, we must probe deep into why it was removed because it connects all the oil producing states in Nigeria
Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Sunday Ogbuoji, said the allegation that the National Assembly mutilated the 2016 budget exposed the height of ignorance of governance by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal administration.
According to Vanguard, N60 billion meant for the Calabar-Lagos rail budget was not in the original budget. The Budget and National Planning Minister, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, successfully defended and got it included in the amended budget.
