2017 Budget Comment: Fashola Tenders Apology To Reps

The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has tendered an unreserved apology to Members of the House of Representatives over comments he made on the 2017 budget.

Recall that Fashola has made unpleasant comments regarding the 2017 appropriation bill after his ministry allegedly inserted N20billion for miscellaneous expenditure.

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Following rebuke by the lawmakers that such an insertion was worrisome as the sum was more than that of the second Niger Bridge which had N12billion estimate, Fashola described members of the National Assembly as having “stark and worrisome knowledge” of the budget process.

But the minister who appeared alongside his aides as early as 9.45am on Tuesday, told the Rep Aliyu Madaki led adhoc committee that there was no time he deliberately disparaged the National Assembly as alleged.

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