Kingsley Kanayo
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday ordered the redeployment of top officials over the recent budget padding which ridiculed the 2016 national budget proposal, Leadership reports.
A reliable source informed the newspaper Friday that over 184 top budget officials had been redeployed to other establishments that had nothing to do with budgeting.
President Muhammadu Buhari had vowed that anyone found wanting in the recent budget padding would not go unpunished.
Buhari had described the incidence as embarrassing and promised to deal decisively with anybody found guilty of tampering with the budget.
“The culprits will not go unpunished. I have been a military governor, petroleum minister, military head of state and headed the Petroleum Trust Fund. Never had I heard the words “budget padding.”
“Our minister of Budget and National Planning did a great job with his team. The minister became almost half his size during the time, working night and day to get the budget ready, only for some people to pad it. What he gave us was not what was finally being debated. It is very embarrassing and disappointing. We will not allow those who did it to go unpunished,” he had vowed.
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