Nigeria health minister disowns ministry's budget, says "rats" have doctored proposal

Nigeria health minister disowns ministry’s budget, says “rats” have doctored proposal

February 9, 2016Hassan Adebayo

In what is the latest in the spate of controversies dogging President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 budget, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health has disowned the budget proposal submitted on its behalf by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

Health Minister, Isaac Adewole, who addressed the Senate Committee on Health during its budget defence session on Monday, said the proposal drawn up by the ministry and submitted to the budget office had been doctored and that “foreign” appropriations, different from what was submitted, had been sneaked in.

“We have to look into the details of the budget and re-submit it to the committee,” he said. “This was not what we submitted. We’ll submit another one. We don’t want anything foreign to creep into that budget. What we submitted is not there.”

Mr. Adewole’s revelation is the latest of controversies and embarrassing disclosures trailing the 2016 budget proposed by President Buhari and currently being considered by the National Assembly.

Last week, the Senate had discovered a sum of N10 billion “questionably smuggled” into the budget of the Ministry of Education for an allegedly questionable subhead.

A senior Presidency official also told PREMIUM TIMES that a “budget mafia” was responsible for the embarrassing allocations in the budget.

Stating further, Mr. Adewole lamented that the proposed appropriations in the budget before the National Assembly ran parallel with the priorities of the health sector as contained in the “original budget.”

While some important agencies in the health sector had been excluded, votes proposed by the ministry had been redistributed, he said.

“In the revised budget as re-submitted, N15.7 billion for capital allocation has been moved to other areas. Some allocations made are not in keeping with our priorities.

“There is nothing allocated to public health and family health.”

While discarding the budget, he therefore asked the committee not to work with the budget before it but wait for another one to be re-submitted.

He also expressed surprise that appropriations were made for some subheads that were generating controversies, whereas no conclusion had been reached on the amount required.

On the State House clinic whose capital vote exceeded cumulative capital vote for teaching hospitals, Mr. Adewole said, “The State House Clinic is not under the Ministry of Health. I hope it’s not the same rats that changed things in our budget that changed it.

“The amount is meant for procurement and purchase of medical equipment. It is very important that you engage them because what happened to us might have also happened to them. It is possible that what is there might not have been what they put there.”

Meanwhile, the Minister allayed public fear on Zika virus, saying Nigerians had developed resistance to the virus, which, according to him, had been in the country since 1954.

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Analyst

These guys are taking advantage of Buhari little education.
- David Adeniran
  
  You are very ignorant honestly. I will tell you a true life story. During the time of Head of State Abdulsalam Abubakar, they smuggled something quite unrelated but constitutional invalidity into his Budget speech which caused serious controversy in the legal profession. He read in the Budget ‘that the RETIREMENT AGE of Chief Judges of the State has now been moved to 70 years’! That was completely an aberration in a Budget! However investigation revealed that the then Lagos State Chief Judge who was due to retire at 65 years, was the mastermind of the ‘contraband item’ in the Budget speech! How did they manage to do that? Only God knows. That statement created a Constitutional crisis because it was completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL, apart from the fact that it had no bearing whatsoever with a Budget or Budget Speech of the Federal Government! The same thing that is happening to President Buhari’s Budget has always been the culture in Nigeria and it is part of the corruption in the system that should be eradicated.
  - Analyst
    
    Abdulsalam too had little Education
    - B. Messi
      
      Lol!
      Nice one…
    - Promise
      
      hahahahahaha, infact, u are a comedian
    - Buhari4Ever
      
      Your education has never gone beyond premium times. Obviouly, you don’t know what to do with your life
    - David Adeniran
      
      Do you even know what it means to be educated?
  - The facts
    
    Are you now saying that Abdusallam did not rehearse before presenting the budget? The same thing applies to Buhari as he meant to go through his lines before presenting it to the public. Besides, that is why he keep on give interviews off script. A smart leader should at least go through issues with his advisers before going public.
    - walter enang
      
      All our aboki leaders never passed through secondary school except Shagari and Yaradua. The rest are touts,vagrants and vagabonds. I like Abdulsalam because he knew his level and left the scene on time. Illiterate wants to rule us for 8 years by which time he will be 90 years old….feeble and a dead wood.
  - ezedi
    
    Wow… U are seriously trying oh. Please stop you are embarrassing us all.
    - David Adeniran
      
      Do you have a problem with comprehension?
      - ezedi
        
        Lmao… Oh I comprehend quite fine. But apparently our presidents past and present do not have the ability to read and comprehend their own budgets right? Was that ur point? Or were u just looking for excuses!
      - David Adeniran
        
        Thank you for the clarification. Budget is a very voluminous document, I really doubt whether an average Nigerian President will ever take time to go through the details of the ENTIRE DOCUMENT before presentation. Perhaps what they do is to just read the SUMMARY (sub-headings) instead of carefully scrutinising the whole details.
      - ezedi
        
        Funny thing is u may be right. These things may have been snuck in there but the fact that the weren’t caught doesn’t look good.
      - Analyst
        
        What about going through presidency budget? Buhari is a fraud himself….the only living top person who supported Abacha looting.
      - David Adeniran
        
        It may be time for your medication.
- Buhari4Ever
  
  Buhari is more educted than your father. Goat!!
  - Analyst
    
    That is why I will never vote for my father to rule 170million human. Since anyone more educated than your father can rule Nigeria, no wonder you voted an illiterate to rule your household.
Observer

it is so clear that the national assembly is a collection of angels and demons… they just want to jeopardize Buhari’s effort, they want to paint him bad, so that we can believe that he is not fit for us…. but I’m glad that the more they try to nail him, the more they miss target, ending up hammering their own finger nails… the wailing wailers will soon wail
- Iniabasi Akpan
  
  Very silly…u mean d nass shd nor vet d budget bcos that amounts to painting him bad.
  Don’t come here again.
  Moron
- ezedi
  
  In other words they should have approved a fraudulent budget! Lmao! My ppl self.
Fairgame

The time the budget of Nigeria for the first time in history started doing Ninja disappearance and reappearance moves under Buhari is when any discerning person knew that executive rats are indeed eating into budgets of various departments and ministries and agencies.
This man should not allow them also eat his name.
utolason

I find all of these very fishy indeed. These remarks support the earlier statement from the presidency of sabotage by some senior civil servants.
- Fairgame
  
  At what point will you ask Buhari to take ownership of whatever it is that is going on with the budget which he Buhari personally submitted to the legislature. Making excuses for Buhari will not save him from being held responsible for the nation’s budget.
  - wode
    
    PMB and the Presidency have no excuse than to take full responsibility. It’s up to them to make necessary changes to reflect their ideals.
  - daniel
    
    It’s becoming clear that it was Idiagbon that made his previous government. Why are people not afraid to treat the nation in this manner? Why would they not be sanctioned severely to teach a lesson? Would a whole year pass us by and nothing is accomplished? Buhari should not disappoint the people.
- Mike udi
  
  Stop that uneducated thought of yours. Presidency should take responsibility and stop pushing blamed on others
- Analyst
  
  The way Tinubu and co bungled him to Aso Rock after making promises Buhari denied that is how Buhari bungled this budget to Senate and now denies what is inside. That is how he is bungling the currency to 500N to 1USD. He will soon sack CBN chief to save his face. What a nation.
Ebaah Odibo

Sorry oh! Minister. ‘Rats’ actually gave your budget Lassa fever, right under your nose. And the budget is…dying! Meanwhile, you were out chasing rat-induced Lassa fever out of other places in the country. Seems your ministry needs quarantine measures more than even hospitals in the country. Charity, they say, should begin from home. Sir, take all necessary medical emergency medical procedure to contain the spread of this Lassa fever in your ministry and the Budget! I recommend you should not go home to your wife, but should be ‘observed and monitored’ to see, if perchance, you have the virus. We don’t want to lose another medical practitioner to this malaise.
Rommel

This is precisely why budget have to go through national assembly,question is,what has been going o in the past? has this been why national assembly members become excessively rich during budget sections? one remembers the saga of professor Fabian Osuji and ministry of education budget defense that swallowed him in corruption probe of inducement to jack up budget.
- DieHard APC Fan
  
  Who is this clown stuck in the past? We agreed the past was bad and made a change. This change looks worse. The fact on ground sir, is that this budget is a huge mess!
  - wode
    
    The existing rats (PS, Directors, DGs, etc) in the system make a mess of it. And that’s exactly part of the rots that the new Government needs to purge our system of. To make changes, it first got messy and cloudy before getting crystal clear.
    - ezedi
      
      The president presented this budget without doing his due diligence!
      It’s always easier to blame others isn’t it? The truth is we can’t speak as a matter of fact which “existing rats…”Are responsible for this or whether those higher up are. So please stop the misdirection.
      Until EFCC arrests someone with evidence of manipulating this budget the president should be held responsible for this mess!
    - B. Messi
      
      And WHO oversee the ‘P.S, Directors and D.Gs’??
      Is it not the ‘noisemakers’??
      WHO APPOINTED THESE INEXPERIENCED BUNGLING GROUP OF NOISEMAKERS??
      THAT’S WHERE THE BUCK STOPS PAL!
- TAWANDA INCOMMUNICADO
  
  The only people responsible are those who drafted the budget and the APC fraudsters breathing on thier shoulders with instructions from different interest groups affiliated to the presidency and the APC. No civil servants added or removed anything, the whole fraud was done by the powers that be and they were caught out.
  
  It is now clear that Buhari has other motives,he is no clean, all these billions of Naira budgeted for him and his family could not have happened without his approval.
  - Rommel
    
    Hahahahahahahahah SMH, you will remember that Mr president is yet to shake up the civil service or even make appointments into government agencies and parastatals,we still have PDP elements on these places who are doing the only thing they know best,how to steal public funds and now the budget mafia is working overtime,soon,they will be fished out and dealt with squarely
    - TAWANDA INCOMMUNICADO
      
      There you go again…so the APC concept of governance entails removing the entire civil service and replacing it .
      - Rommel
        
        I’m sure you have heard how a public servant indicted Jacob Xuma of south Africa for stealing public funds in the name of renovating his private residence,under president Jonathan, could such a feat happen in Nigeria? when Sanusi tried it,we saw how he ended and even the eminent Attahiru Jega,the PDP plotted to have the man kidnapped because of elections,we saw PDP together with armed OPC hooligans demonstrating with police escort in Lagos prior to election because they did not want card readers and no one was arrested rather what we saw was the raiding of opposition offices by state apparatus including DSS, we need to shake up the civil service and if it means uprooting the entire system,so be it,Nigeria must her rightful place among the league of developed nations or do you have anything against that dream?
B. Messi

Hahahahahaha!
The corollary of this rat story is that the minister wants another opportunity to ‘re-write’ his exams!
These somersaults, accusations, denials and finger-pointing do not come as a surprise to the discerning. The inexperience, disorganisation and shallowness of this APC regime was evident from ‘day one’!
All we hear from APC are stories of STOLEN BUDGETS, BUDGET MAFIAS and now RATS!!
Budget mafia ke! Tell that to the marines..OR E-ZOMBIES!! ARE THEY SAYING NO ONE SCRUTINISED WHAT THE CIVIL SERVANTS/ BEAUROCRATS COMPILED BEFORE ‘BABA LONDON’ SUBMITTED THE SHAMBOLIC DOCUMENT WITH SO MUCH FANFARE??
HAHAHAHA!!!

The bottom line is, this is the WORST budget in the history of Nigeria. The buhari regime was highly embarrassed by the inadequacies pointed out in the ‘1st budget’..so had to steal it to ‘re-jig’ the figures.with more shortcomings exposed, they blamed a ‘mafia’. With further outrage especially about the state house’s capital budget being higher than that of ALL TEACHING HOSPITALS COMBINED, the minister is now seeking how to withdraw/steal(?) it to ‘re-jig’ it yet again!!
Hahahahahaha……CHARLATANS!!!!!!
- Fairgame
  
  You have said it all. But because this budget affects Nigeria and Nigerians it is the responsibility of Rommel, Thomas Sankara and all the other coalition of lying liars to ask Buhari to take immediate responsibility of the budget and sort out whatever mess is going on. It is after all in his interest to make sure the legitimate wails of the wailing wailers does not become another addition to his already long list of international embarrassments. If he does not have the brain to do so he can hire the brains and this time not a lawyer who knows zero about economics. This is promising to be quite an interesting year. Stolen budget, recovered budget, ninjas in National Assembly… And Hollywood is looking for ideas?
Cleartruth

It’s very obvious dictator buhari boys are not buying into his anti corruption war. He needs to fish out the people responsible for these budget scams and prosecute them so as to send a strong message to others. Otherwise, they will divert the budget money into their private pockets.
- Amir
  
  The budget mafia had a field day when the world renowned clueless was there as our elected ineffectual buffoon. For the first time Ministers can speak out the truth to the nation.
  - Fairgame
    
    The ministers never had issues with the budgets they prepared. It was never stolen, altered, smuggled in, smuggle out or whatever the else is going on with this year’s budget. So your point is as ineffectual as the APC Tolu Ogunlesi who wrote the article for the economist and used the term ineffectual buffoon so shamelessly. So ask Buhari to take ownership of the Budget that he submitted with his two hands to the National Assembly and sort out the mess instead of coming here to defend the indefensible.
  - walter enang
    
    Yeah, but at least we exchanged dollar for 170 naira only and we had power. Now under the present Jesus Christ government, no one has any money anymore and people are getting sacked or laid off their jobs left right and center.
  - Cleartruth
    
    The problem with you is that you don’t face the truth. The NASS is the one doing this great job not the ministers. So give the NASS the credit not the ministers.
Pointitout

From the look of things, this has been going on for ages with connivance from the house. The cabal that has been responsible are still intact, alive and well. The budget is very voluminous and one does not expect the president to go through all page by page. One should also note that when someone wants to smuggle in figures, he or she does not make it obvious. It is normally hidden. The legislators are doing what is expected of them in this regards. That is the essence of democracy. Old habits die hard. The cabals need to be fished out and dealt with appropriately.
Curious K

Where are the copies of the original proposals? The minister should have gone to the senate with the original copy of the proposals as proof of his allegations. This blame game is becoming very annoying
- walter enang
  
  So how do you think he got to know about the discrepancies? Or maybe he should personally tell YOU EVERY STEPS THAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THESE LIES.
kalembe

This gives us a picture of what was going in previous governments before Buhari – the ministries and states add 20 percent on top of their real need, so they can easily share that excess when they receive the allocation. The minister never knew he would be asked to come and defend the budget, now he is pretending he does not know who added the extra. Any minister or governor with so called bogus figures in their budget should be thrown in jail, because what they are doing in outright criminal.
- Julius
  
  Yes, in the previous government, we didnt even know what was in the budget. This is a step forward that even a minister is saying the budget was inflated and rejected it. Its a change we should like.
  - walter enang
    
    Why dont you guys go far back to the time of Jesus Christ or even Mohammed all in an effort to polish and already tarnished and fading gold plated wooden statue? Aboki is an illiterate street criminal who underestimated the educational integrity of SOME of our lawmakers. They though they can SMUGGLE this rubbish budget through but God of the long suffering Nigerians is NOT SLEEPING.
    - Julius
      
      lol@ your blabbing and jibbrish crap !. Take care !
      - walter enang
        
        …keep lolling aboki until the oil that your useless parasitic beggarly people are dying for sells at $1. That is when your lolling will lol your aboki begging brain.
- UOU
  
  You are a big liar, the minster knew he will defend the budget, its a practice, how do you even suggests such stupidity, the truth is that this evil lying and propagandists government thought that in their usual our way of creating confusion and commotion in the system, everything will just go for them without qualms but as God would have it, all these things is coming out, its not man made but divine. No need bringing the last or past regimes into this charade, talk about the present regime because they own the budget, put the blame where it should be, the last or past regime did not write nor present this budget for this certificate-less induced regime or did you, slaves not celebrate to high heavens when buhari presented a useless criminal budget, common presenting of budget was celebrated as if nigeria just won the world cup, there is nothing your people did not say to please yourself about the budget, all in the name of treachery but see how deep they have disappointed and disgraced all of you hypocrites, as predicted. More is coming, just hang on
Analyst

Did anyone see the president? Please tell him to remain in UK. We did not miss him. How can one ever imagine experience to manage cow can be use to manage human in 21 century?
- ed
  
  Very simple. You milk it to death.
- musa aliyu
  
  If only you didn’t miss him, so what? We voted him and will still vote for him again. Mtchewwwww
- SB
  
  If you want to test his popularity back home, set up a poll and lets see. Do not act like AIT when you see the results coming after collecting Dasukigate. lol
Akinlalu BJ

I’m beginning to doubt the genuineness of the central government in this whole issue. Anyone that receives a file in an office signs for the file, same for passing to another officer. How come no one has been arrested or at least questioned concerning the various alterations in the 2016 budget, not even a secretary or clerk? Can’t this minister fish out those responsible for this monumental scandal through their register instead of wanting us to celebrate his incompetency?
- walter enang
  
  No one is arrested because they are all in cahoots together. This government came to drink the last drops of crude oil money but God had a different plan for them. Now they are desperate for money and are ready to rob every Nigerian to feed their greed and wicked hearts.
TAWANDA INCOMMUNICADO

Buhari’s mediocre Budget continues to alarm Nigerians. If this dictator cannot even present a worthy budget for the country, what can he really do. Leadership is not just about arresting people and sending soldiers in the streets to shoot unarmed civilians. Nigeria’s economy is degenerating by the hour and the country needs a crew which can think outside the box with new innovations,a crew that can get things done ……..IF THEY CANNOT DO A BUDGET, WHAT CAN THEY DO ?

The truth is that no civil servants tampered with any budget,the government presented the fraud but eagle eyed Nigerian caught them in the act. This budget is a calculated fraud orchestrated by the powers that be.
- Julius
  
  You mean they can not do a budget like Jonathan budget where everything goes ? That we didnt even know what was in the budget that was so inflated that he had to be sued to open it up for the country to know what was in it ? You never stop displaying your ignorance and bigoted views on a daily basis and on any topic.
  - Jaja Majaja
    
    Enough please, he is saying the truth on this one….haba how can a minister say such nonsense.
    - Julius
      
      So when a fraudulent budget is presented on behalf of his ministry , he should keep quiet and accept the money and spend it as usual by depositing half of t in his personal bank account ? Like it was done under Jonathan ?
      - musa aliyu
        
        They are the ones behind the heist. Why worry answering them?
      - Julius
        
        I know. You are right. Its just too funny to read their nonsense.
ROA

I guess the ghost of my grandmother doctored the proposal. This budget saga should throw some guys under the train.
Burning Spear

The Minister needs to see a medical doctor very urgently—-with his lies——————-Every National daily carried the story on the budget by the Ministry–of health–even Aso rock Shehu Garba defended that of Aso rock—where was the Minister when Adesina and Shehu Garba issued their usual janjaweed press release—in defence of the budget—for Aso Rock Clinic—————See—All Buhari does from morning till day break is to steal i have said Buhari is worse than Abacha when it comes to stealing——Nigeria is in trouble–How can a Minister allege that ghost workers doctored the figures for his Ministry–Thisis the first time we are hearing this–Meaning the government of Buhari is filled with thieves–
- musa aliyu
  
  Like you!
  - Burning Spear
    
    AM I FULANI COWHAND LIKE BUHARI–WGHO GOES ABOIT LYING? THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST TIME THAT WE ARE HAVING A FULANI MAN AS PRESIDENT
    - SB
      
      You are corruption fighting back. EFCC, watch out on this guy please
JasV

If i were this Minister and serious about my job, the rats must be already captured in the trap before I can lift up my head to say or talk the nauseating rubbish he is spewing out right now. Have you ever heard that the buck stops on your table mister rat minister?
- walter enang
  
  The guy is talking about the BUDGET. No money has been disbursed to his ministry YET, Oga.
  - JasV
    
    As an ordinary Nigerian, I knew and I read in the news paper since last year that insiders in the ministry and the assembly (rats as he called them) had altered the budget. What more of the minister and his technocrats? Why if I am serious will I wait until I go to defend the altered budget (wasting my and everyone else’s time) before concluding that “we have to submit another one? It just does not make sense. I will arrive there prepared with that other one that is if I wasn’t hoping that the rat infested one will pass through.
    - ed
      
      You people are not paying attention to the news on the disappearance of the original budget. The minister and the representative probably had two different copy of the budget. The prudent thing to do at the moment is to clear the air. Who put all these fraudulent charges in the government documents. Nigerian as usual will be fighting over the irrelevant issue. No one is calling out the so called rats.
  - aisha ani
    
    It was a joke.
    - walter enang
      
      OK correction accepted. lol… change indeed.
- Jaja Majaja
  
  Catch Rat ! you want the “honorable” minister to catch Lassa fever?
- aisha ani
  
  Probably know who the rats are and EFCC is on the job.
walter enang

Aboki cannot even present a workable and above board budget. Maybe the 2016 budget will be ready in September.
- musa aliyu
  
  Because people like you tempered with the budget to continue business as usual, and you are detected, you can call him any names you deem fit. Mtchewwwww!
Jaja Majaja

Na wah o……. only in Nigeria, wonderful country .
PolyGon2013

Premiumtumes, You need to address the minister as Dr. Adewole.
- adeade
  
  Professor Adewole.. My immediate past VC.
  - PolyGon2013
    
    I hear you.
PolyGon2013

All ministries should bring their own copies and compare it with what was submitted.
TAWANDA INCOMMUNICADO

It is clear that this president just gave instructions on the billions he expected to be spent on him and his family as well as his deputy and his family,he was fixated on the billions of Naira budgeted for Aso rock and his “Ajalla travels”. There was no due diligence on the part of the President hence these anomalies cannot be said to be mistakes,they were well approved of by him.

Nigeria elected a president who does not have a clue as to the workings of a 21st century economy,he has an antiquated outlook on economic issues ,often too crude and in defiance of the basic rules of the free market economy. HOW DOES ONE EXPECT HIM TO UNDERSTAND THE INTRICACIES OF A BUDGET OR EVEN REVISE ONE CONSTRUCTIVELY LIKE OBAMA OF THE USA OR CAMERON OF THE UK WOULD DO ?

OUR BUHARI IS NOT 21ST CENTURY COMPLIANT AT ALL !!
- New Nigerian
  
  You are just a hammer seeing everything as nail, aren’t you?
- SB
  
  But better than the one who was not aware of the Abacha loot and drinks to stupor when carrying out official duties. No wonder he claimed he did not sign any money to Dasuki, or was he pretending to be drunk to embezzle our hard earned money? lol
  - TAWANDA INCOMMUNICADO
    
    I am not just a scholar of history,I would rather concentrate on current issues.
okonofua ebiri

@tawandaincommunicado:disqus

What the Health Minister has said here is that Buhari’s 2016 budget be nullified as fraud.
He disowns the budget as forged as concern the Ministry of Health which he heads as CEO.
He also asked the Senate not to give approval to the fake and forged budget Buhari submitted.
Ayara

What we have here is a combination of fraud and incompetence. Fraud of the part of the governors, ministers, etc that submit the budget proposal, and incompetence on the part of the so-called ‘presidency’. Does the presidency even have a qualified accountant that can read a financial document? If they don’t, how did they arrive at the $2.1 billion figure needed to rehabilitate persons displayed by Boko Haram, for which Buhari took out a World Bank loan? And how did they arrive at the $3.5 billion loan that Buhari is seeking abroad at this moment. Just imagine, if the governors and ministers have the gut to commit fraud right on Buhari’s nose, how far did they go during past administrations.
- aisha ani
  
  Lets face it Nigerians are resistant to change, these civil servants don’t want corruption to go away. Government workers must embrace change and preach it, or ship out.
Burning Spear

léet him publish the figures he submitted
- aisha ani
  
  Simple!
asuevie

This never happened when Ngozi was in charge. The difference is clear.
corruption has stopped? Buahri please face economy with 80% attention!
- aisha ani
  
  It’s because Nigerians were not interested when Ngozi was in charge, bad economy is biting everyone now.
- New Nigerian
  
  Ngozi read budget and released money exactly as budgeted, without checking if work were actually done…this is what fueled the padding of the budgets. If budget remain budget and accrual system informs cash call civil servants would have learnt that padding budgets is akin to stealing the voters card with biometric information – time wasting in foolishness!
- Izedomi Ohirein
  
  It probably happened & they did not know. Crimes & sleaze are being exposed now than ever before.
  Did you know that Nigeria had Zita fiver since 1954?.
  - Darlington
    
    You contradicting yourself! So, APC is exposing APC?
    - Izedomi Ohirein
      
      Correction.
      APC is exposing corruption in the budget & cabinet offices part of the civil service.
      Civil service is not part of APC government.
MD

This is what you expect when a submitted budget developed wings after presentation to the Senate, not surprise at all this allegations flying around. Corruption is surely fighting back may God save this nation from all its detractors and expose all those involved. I can smell a rat.
SB

Those that commit this crime are just trying PMB’s patience. Corruption definitely fighting back. For the minister to say that this is not what they submitted, then Saraki and the budget grabbers have tempered with the budget. Thank God, they are not the ones to implement the budget. I am so happy that we have gotten it right with the executive., as for the legislators and the judiciary, we shall get back at them before 2019
- Darlington
  
  So, the N5000 you’re collecting for Lair Mohammed has effecting your reasoning capacity.
Izedomi Ohirein

This is similar to our Military fighting boko haram under Jonathan & he did nothing about them.
I hope these rats who doctored 2016 budget are traced back to 1999 & lets see their hide out + luxurious nests.
SB

Another attempt by Saraki to stage manage his CCT trial. This man Saraki wants to trade with our future and let those supporters of his warn him ooo. The kind of stone wey we go use stone him go dey more than that of Aso rock if the budget no pass before the end of this Feb.
- Darlington
  
  Was Saraki the person that prepared the budget? Can corruption fight corruption? Unless APC corruption is being used to fight PDP corruption.
ndababa

we know there are bad eggs left from the last administration in the civil service, but with time they will be fished out.Those saboteurs should be dealt with to serve as a deterrent to others.
- Darlington
  
  Was the budget prepared by GEJ? Did the President Buhari fail to read in between the lines before presenting the budget? It’s very disgraceful for hypocrites like you to keep blaming past administration for this monumental national embarrassment. Buhari has failed Nigerians!