2024 Budget: Senior Senators Accused Of Receiving N500m Each +Video

Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, representing Cross River North Senatorial District on Tuesday accused some Senators of receiving N500m each. The accusation plunged the Senate into a rowdy session on Tuesday as the Point of Order raised by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, was hijacked by an escalation.

This followed a point of order raised by Adeola on the allegation by Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi Central).

Ningi had raised the alarm of N3 trillion Budget Padding in the N28.7 trillion 2024 Appropriation Act and that the budget passed by the National Assembly for 2024 fiscal year is N25 trillion, while the one being implemented by the Presidency is  N28.7 trillion.

The Senators were divided on the matter as they took turns to speak on the floor of the Senate, but more revelations confounded the matter when Jarigbe, a PDP senator said some senators got N500 million each, but he did not get it. 

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He said: “All of us are culpable. 

“Some so-called Senior Senators here got N500 million each from the 2024 Budget.

“I am a ranking Senator and I didn’t get anything. 

“No Senator has a right to accuse Senator Ningi.”

Meanwhile, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, tried to restore calmness on the floor.

The Eagle Online