The Senator representing Kano
North Senatorial district, Jibrin Barau, has said that the 2018 budget being
debated was built on wrong foundations.
He said this while contributing
to debates on the N8.612 trillion national budget on Thursday.
Barau’s position was predicated
on the fact that Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) upon which annual
budget hinges, was still in the offing in the Senate.
He also posited that it was wrong
from the legal point of view.
“MTEF is still with Senate and
what basis did the executive prepare it’s 2018 appropriation. This is legally
wrong anywhere.”
Barau who is the Chairman, Senate
Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND faulted abysmal allocation of
funds to the tune of 7% to education contrary to the United Nations standard of
24% of the total budget.
He allayed fears that education
sector would be hit with strikes in 2018, adding that only N4 billion was spent
in 2017 against N3 trillion allocated to education sector.
“In 2017, government spent a
paltry N4 billion instead of N3 trillion budgetted for capital budget”, he
said.
On the contrary, Senator Nelson
Effiong representing Akwa Ibom South Senatorial district commended the Federal
Government over the implementation of 2017 budget, saying that the nation had
just passed through recession.
According to him, government has
done well to exit the nation out of recession
He further said, it was
appropriate that the 2018 budget was tagged that of consolidation.
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