5 alleged "distortions" made to 2016 budget by National Assembly

According to recent reports, the National Assembly while scrutinizing the 2016 budget made the following "distortions":


* N4 billion removed from Ministry of Health budget and added to Code of Conduct Tribunal

* Cost of 80 illegal roads without designs added to Works budget, 30 of them not federal

* Money meant for Works, power transmission, diverted by lawmakers for tricycles, town halls, boreholes in their constituencies

* 73 illegal projects added to Education budget – no designs available for the projects, and no tenders conducted

* Lawmakers slashed money for poor students by 50% in Education budget and added same to their states constituencies.

source: nigerianeye