Director General of the National
Lottery Commission, Lanre Gbajabiamila has broken record for presenting a
one-page 2020 budget proposal for the Commission.
His presentation on Thursday at
the Senate Committee on Special duties irked members of the Committee headed by
Senator Yusuf Yusuf who described him as “one of the most unserious Director
Generals of a strategic agency of government”, that was supposed to generate
huge revenues for government.
Senator Yusuf Yusuf also came
hard on Gbajabiamila who couldn’t explain how to prepare budget of agency of
government.
“You mean, you sent one page
budget to us? This is unacceptable. This is not how to prepare budget and you
are not serious for not knowing how to do this”, Yusuf Yusuf said.
In his submission, the Director
General disclosed that the revenue of the National Lottery Commission had
increased from N500 million to N1.5 billion annually, adding that they were
ready to grow the revenue if some challenges of the agency were addressed.
He added that the Commission by
its own law was supposed to remit 20% to the National Lottery Trust Fund
(NLTF).
Senator Ibrahim Kashim Shettima,
member and former governor of Borno State asked if the Commission was
religiously remitting to the Trust Fund as required.
Gbajabiamila, however, explained
how he remitted N250 million instead of N1.4 billion, a situation that didn’t
go well with Senators who tasked him to recover all government revenues, saying
that they wouldn’t tolerate loss of revenues in this present administration.
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