Civil rights activist and politician Senator Shehu Sani has suggested creating laws to prevent budget padding by lawmakers after being presented with budgets from Ministries, Departments and agencies (MDAs).
He made this suggestion on Tuesday via his X handle while prescribing ways to stop additional items from being added to budgets presented by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
He said, “The only way to stop budget padding is to make a law that prohibits Lawmakers from tempering with budgets presented by Ministries Departments and Agencies,” the senator’s tweet partly said.
He, however added, that he doubted if lawmakers would be willing to make laws to stop such acts, or that such a bill would be allowed to scale through.
“…but I don’t know who will make that law or how it can even pass the first reading,” he added.
His advice comes as the meeting of the Appropriations Committee with the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Minister of Budget & Economic Planning and DG, Budget Office of the Federation, is set to be held on Tuesday, 7th January 2025.
The budget defence of Appropriations Sub-committees with relevant MDAs will also be held from Wednesday 8th – Wednesday 15th January 2025.
Senator Sani represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District from 2015 to 2019.
