During a plenary session on Tuesday at the Red Chamber in Abuja, Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, representing Cross River North, disclosed that certain senior senators received N500 million each from the 2024 budget.
This revelation comes shortly after Senator Abdul Ningi accused the Senate of Budget Padding in an interview with BBC Hausa last week. Ningi alleged that the Senate had inflated the initial budget by an additional N3.7 trillion.
In response to this allegation, Senator Jarigbe stated that all senators are implicated in such practices. He further alleged that certain senior senators received N500 million each from the 2024 appropriation bill.
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“If we want to go into this issue, all of us are culpable. Some senators here, so called senior senators got N500 million each.
“I am a ranking senator. I didn’t get. Did I go to the press? We don’t have to go into those issues,” he said.
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