Foremost human right lawyer, Femi
Falana, has called on the National Assembly to probe the unauthorised
withdrawal made by President Muhammadu Buhari from the Excess Crude Account
(ECA).
Reacting to the controversey
surrounding the withdrawal of $496million to pay for Tucano aircrafts in the
United States, Falana said the days of anticipatory approvals should be over in
the country.
According to him, “Since 1999,
anticipated approvals have been the order of the day.
“Presidents (Olusegun) Obasanjo,
(Umaru) Yar’Adua and (Goodluck) Jonathan were alleged to have spent
N1.5trillion without parliamentary approval. We thought that that era had gone
for good.
“The National Assembly should
investigate the withdrawal with a view to stopping the executive”.
A letter dated April 13 and
transmitted to the National Assembly, shows that Buhari had already given
anticipatory approval for the withdrawal of $496,374,470 (N151,394,421,355)
from the ECA, for the purchase of the aircraft and was only seeking the
inclusion of same in the 2018 Appropriation Bill that the National Assembly is
currently finalising.
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