2017 Budget: power of appropriation resides in NASS ― Reps member

A member of the House of Representatives, Hon Adekoya Adesegun Abdelmajid on Tuesday debunked the claims by some ministers that their budget estimates in the 2017 appropriation bill were tampered with by the National Assembly ‎before passage, saying those making such false claim were ignorant of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

‎The lawmaker representing Ijebu North- East-Ogun Waterside Federal constituency of Ogun State who is also the Vice Chairman of the House Committee of Lands Transport  while speaking with News men in Abuja urged  the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to caution the affected Ministers in the National interest.

Stating that the appropriation of of funds in the 1999 constitution as amended was the exclusive responsibility of the Legislature while the executive would only estimate and as well execute, the lawmaker declared that the Legislature would not be a rubber stamp to the Executive under whatever guise.

According to him,” both Babatunde Fashola of the Ministry of Works, Housing, power and his counterpart in the Transport ‎Ministry, Rotimi Amaechi, have been making series of allegations bothering on tampering with the budget, this is not true at all, let any one of them with contradicing facts to come with such.