Budget: We’re not illiterates —Senate tells Presidency

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The Senate has warned the Presidency against seeing members of the National Assembly as illiterates that merely rubber stamp national budgets.  

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, through his Special Adviser on Political Mat-ters, Mr. Okey Ozoani yesterday reacted to what he termed "another feat of thoughtless and disparaging statements" directed at the National Assembly and its officers by the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Affairs, Ahmed Ali Gulak.  

Ekweremadu, who was specifically refer-ring to the interview granted by Gulak in the Daily Sun of October 26 where he (Gulak) was quoted to have, among other allegations, accused the National Assembly of late passage of Appropriation Act, said: "Gulak's claim that enough work goes into the Appropriation Bills before submission to the National Assembly does not in any way preclude the parliament as co-managers of the economy from subjecting such budget estimates to legislative scrutiny and due process.

"Secondly, his claims that the Deputy Presi-dent of the Senate said that most National Assem-bly members were illiterates is no less spurious and insulting. To put matters straight, the Deputy President of the Senate, while speaking on the topic "The Political Ideology of the Great Zik of Africa and Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria" at the 2nd Zik annual lecture series organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Awka, stressed that the 21st century Nigeria needed knowledgeable leadership at all levels that could effectively drive development and realize the lofty dreams of the nation's founding fathers".

Daily Trust

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