Tag: Dino Melaye

2022 Budget laced with fake items to defraud Nigerians Group alleges

Aminu Imam

A civil society organisation, (CSO), Anti-Corruption Network, (ACN), has raised the alarm over the proposed 2022 budget, alleging that it contains fake items running into billions of Naira, aimed at defrauding Nigerians. Addressing a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the ACN Executive Secretary, Senator Dino Melaye, described the nations budgeting system as a monumental national disgrace. The organisation also condemned the N228 billion budgetary provision proposed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service Commission (FIRS), describing it as a monumental fraud. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had in October presented a…

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Insecurity: “Speak to us; we didnt vote your spokesmen as President”, Melaye tells Buhari

Aminu Imam

The senator who represented Kogi-West, Dino Melaye, has asked President Buhari to address Nigerians over the state of security in the country, saying people did not vote for his media aides, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu. Recall that the referred Buharis media aides have been communicating to Nigerians through press releases over efforts by the Federal Government over the rising insecurity in the country. Melaye, during an interview on a television programme yesterday, said the Presidents silence is of no good to the country. According to him, President Buhari needs…

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