Tag: Senator Ningi

Budget Padding: SERAP gives Akpabio 7 days to reinstate Ningi or face legal actions

Aminu Imam

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has issued Senate President, Godswill Akpabio a 7-day ultimatum within which hes to reinstate the suspended Senator representing Bauchi-North, Abdul Ningi. SERAP, which wrote the letter to the Senate urged Senate President to urgently refer the allegations that lawmakers padded the 2024 Budget by irregularly inserting projects worth N3.7 trillion to EFCC and ICPC for investigation and prosecution. Tinubu was also asked to refer the allegations of budget-padding and irregularities for which the senator was suspended to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…

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Budget-padding Controversy:BudgIT confirms Ningis N3.7tr allegation

Aminu Imam

A civic organisation focused on the Nigerian budget and public data, BudgIT, has thrown its weight behind suspended Senator Abdul Ningi on a N3.7 trillion gap in the 2024 Budget presented to the National Assembly. The Director and co-founder of BudgIT, Seun Onigbinde, made this known during an interview in a television programme yesterday, stressing that Ningi was right if he posited that there was no detailed allocation for N3.7 trillion in the 2024 Budget. Recall that Senator Ningi, representing Bauchi-Central senatorial district, was suspended on Tuesday by the Upper…

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N3.7tr Budget-Padding allegation: Senate suspends Ningi for 3 months

Aminu Imam

The Senate has suspended Senator Abdul Ningi for three months over his claim that the 2024 Budget was padded to the tune of N3.7 trillion. Ningi, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Population, and he represents Bauchi-Central. While the parties called for a probe into the allegation, some northern senators disowned the claims made by Ningi, saying the Bauchi State senator did not speak for them. The Bauchi senator, however, maintained his position yesterday that N3.7tn could not be accounted for in…

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“Suspending Ningi without investigation amounts to cover-up, legislative cowardice” HURIWA

Aminu Imam

Civil Rights Advocacy group, HURIWA, has described the suspension order slammed on Senator Abdul Ningi as a coordinated cover-up and legislative blackmail aimed at smashing the weighty allegations of budget padding raised by the Bauchi State-born lawmaker. Recall that Senator Abdul Ningi had insisted that about N3 trillion of the N28 trillion 2024 Budget had no subhead suggesting that the Godswill Akpabio-led Senate may have padded the Budget. HURIWA insisted that the suspension of Senator Ningi was hasty and will inevitably be interpreted as a ploy by National Assembly cover…

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?3tr padding in 2024 Budget – Senator Ningi alleges

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Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi

Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdul Ningi, has, in a stunning disclosure, raised alarm regarding a significant disparity between the budget approved by the National Assembly and the one being implemented by the Presidency. Speaking to the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) Hausa Service, Senator Ningi revealed that while the National Assembly had sanctioned a budget of ?25 trillion, signed by President Bola Tinubu, the Federal Government is operating with a budget of ?28 trillion. This discrepancy, he said, points to an alarming ?3 trillion surplus that was inserted…

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