The trouble in the National Assembly over the 2016 budget is yet to abate as crisis is already budding in the House of Representatives on alleged fraudulent injection of projects worth billions of Naira by Committee leaders to the exclusion of members.
Indications emerged yesterday that the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations smuggled new projects in the 2016 budget worth N12.6 billion without the knowledge of the entire membership of the committee.
New Telegraph also learnt that the Committee earmarked the sum of N325 million for boreholes in 79 undisclosed rural communities in the country.
It was learnt that aside the ministry’s N40.918 billion budget proposal that was reduced to N31.618 billion by the National Assembly, the lawmakers allegedly inserted fresh 386 projects worth N12.6 billion The injected projects in Agric sector are as follows:
Main ministry N5.3 billion; Federal College of produce inspection and stored products, Kano N550.6million, Agric research and management institute, Ilorin, N225million; National centre for agric mechanisation, Ilorin, N422.4million, National Cereal Research Institute, Badeggi N257.5million, National veterinary research institute, N35million, and National root crops research institute, Umudike, N484million.
Main ministry N5.3 billion; Federal College of produce inspection and stored products, Kano N550.6million, Agric research and management institute, Ilorin, N225million; National centre for agric mechanisation, Ilorin, N422.4million, National Cereal Research Institute, Badeggi N257.5million, National veterinary research institute, N35million, and National root crops research institute, Umudike, N484million.
Others are: National institute for Oil Palm Research, Benin, N177.8million; Institute of Agric Research, Zaria, N243.3million; National Animal Product Research Institute, Zaria N345.5million, National horticulture research institute, Ibadan N62million; Cocoa Research Institute, Ibadan, N90m; Institute of Agric Research and Training, Ibadan, N18million.
Also included are: Rubber Research Institute, Benin N70m; National Institute for fresh water fish, New Bussa, Niger State N205million, National Agric extension and research liaison services, Zaria N60million, Veterinary council of Nigeria N26.2million, Federal College of animal health and production, Ibadan N68.6million, Federal College of Agric, Akure, N342million. Federal College of Agric, Moore plantation, Ibadan N154.1million, Federal College of Agric, Ishiagu, N316million, Federal College of fresh water fisheries technology, New Nissan, N92million, Federal college of animal health and production, vomiting N83million, College of veterinary and medical laboratory, vomiting N50million.
Others are Federal College of fresh water fisheries, Baggage N77.8million; Federal college of fisheries and marine technology, Lagos, N254million and Federal Cooperative College, Ibadan, N40million. Others are: Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna, N270.2million, Federal Cooperative College, Oji River, N7million; Federal College of Land Resources Technology, Owerri N147million, Federal College of Land Resources, Kuru, Jos N35million, Federal College of Horticulture, Dadin Kowa, Gombe, N455.8million; and Nigerian stored product research, Illorin, N955.1million. Also padded in the budget are: National agriculture seeds council, N70million, Nigerian agricultural quarantine services, N50million; Agricultural research council of Nigeria, N150million; Lake Chad research institute, Maiduguri, N185million, and National Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research, N185million.
Newtelegraphonline
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Next time criticise constructively, product of education menace like you.
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Now all of them are romancing politicians. Na ontop poor man head dem wan knack prophetic doom. I blame the people who kept their head and ears.
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ReplyDeleteThis is exactly how Nigeria's treasury has been looted consistently for decades.
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