NASS padding of 2016- Buhari refuses assent

PMB refuses to give his assent to 2016 budget due to excessive paddling of the document because of the NASS efforts to rubbish the developmental efforts of the present administration.

Some of discovered paddling by the national Assembly are as stated thus;

Missing projects: Buhari to return 2016 Budget to NASS

*Lagos-Calabar N60 billion coastal railway removed

*Idu-Kaduna rail line cut by N8.7 billion

*Major federal roads slashed

*Polio eradication, essential drugs for HIV/AIDS expunged

*Agric/water resources re-allocated to constituency projects

President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to return the 2016 Budget to the National Assembly to rework because what the lawmakers sent to him on Thursday for assent, according to Presidency sources, fell below his expectations.

By implication, Buhari will not sign the Appropriation Bill into law, as earlier planned, before jetting out of the country this weekend to China for economic and business deals for Nigeria.

The sources confirmed to Sunday Vanguard that the President felt disappointed that provisions for major national projects and programmes that could turn around the economy were either out-rightly removed or funds for them ridiculously slashed by the lawmakers.'