Mr Femi Falana, a senior lawyer while addressing the controversy over the budget on Channels TV on Sunday noted that the National Assembly cannot re-write the budget. “You can’t re-write the budget, that is the point,” Falana said on Sunday Politics while highlighting what needed to be done to restructure Nigeria.
He explained further that: “There is no way you can put N10bn or N20bn without specifying, that will not be budgeting because Section 81 is talking about details of the estimate and expenditure. So you can’t have an omnibus figure”.
“If that was done on the part of the executive, it was clearly against the law on budget. Again, that is where the National Assembly is empowered by Section 81 to scrutinise the budget and make sure you do not have omnibus provisions or duplications,” the lawyer added.
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