Barely 24 hours to the presentation of the 2021 budget by President Muhammadu Buhari, some lawmakers in the National Assembly (NASS) have described the proposed budget as a recipe for corruption.
The lawmakers who are mainly in the opposition told TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) that there is no need going too far that merely looking at the deliverables of 2020 budget, Nigerians do not need a soothsayer to tell them that this is another empty one.
Recall that the 2020 budget of N10.3trillion was highly in deficit because of the COVID-19 pandemic and other extraneous factors.
Evaluating its performance so far calls for a lot of reasoning as it performed far below 35 percent, the lawmakers said.
The lawmakers who spoke under the condition of anonymity said where on Earth will N13.3 trn emerge from to fund the 2021 budget. So the bottom line is that this budget is going to be tailored properly into corruption.
A lawmaker from the North Central geo-political zone told TNG that “well we all know that the funds are not picked on the streets, the last budget is still having funding problems then suddenly you are bringing another N13.3 trn to be funded from where,” he queried.
Another Lawmaker from the South-West zone equally spoke in the same vein, saying “it’s most awkward because we do know that the Nigerian economy is deeply in crisis maybe we’ll fund this 2021 budget with borrowed funds.
“Well, we are watching from the sidelines the expected abracadabra that this administration is fond of performing at critical periods like this”.