Mixed Reactions Trail Passage Of The 2016 Budget By National Assembly

2016 budget

President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2016 budget proposal of 6.07 trillion naira on Tuesday, December 22, and yesterday the budget was passed by the National Assembly. Nigeria’s 2016 budget is based on a crude oil benchmark price of $38 per barrel and a production estimate of 2.2 million barrels per day for 2016. There has been a plethora of impulse rising to the recently passed budget from Nigerians on social media and INFORMATION NIGERIA has put them together in this piece:

Reacting to the cooperative decision of the Presidency and National Assembly, Aderoju Adelere said that ‘‏Nigeria’s 2016 budget is full of pork and maggots.’. In the same drift of obnoxious regards, Duwdu said ‘The mess on the ground is mind-boggling, and there’s no magic wand anywhere. So, we all should be prepared to first sweat it out through hardship and sacrifice before we get to the promise land. Hopefully, the present government will not steal with reckless abandon our common patrimony as it was so mindlessly done by the previous regimes since 1999′.

Commenting on a specific part of the budget, Olawale Opayinka suggested that ‘these guys are just Clueless, N500bn for chop I chop and classified as Capital Expenditure.’ In the same vein,  Abah Ehi Peter is worried that the ‘National Assembly has increased the budget for Constituency Projects from N60bn as proposed to N100bn. #2016Budget. This is so Sad.’ Wilson Rume E. on the other hand said, ‘Capital exp was reduced by 1.85% from N1.62 trn submitted by PMB. #2016Budget. Not good news!’

Pope Amajama, PhD took a look at the missing budget saga, he said ‘I Believe That Buhari Prepared The Fraudulent #2016Budget Buhari Believes That Civil Servants Padded It Buhari Didn’t Withdraw A Budget…’

Meanwhile, Abdulmumin Jibrin thinks ‘The Appropriation Committees of both the House of Representatives and the Senate have put in lots of quality time into the #2016Budget.’ In response to a post, The Umpire said ‘…2016 budget may be faulty but figures in the previous budgets (of Jonathan) are far worse. Go and cross-check. Why people didn’t cry out then was that Jonathan’s government didn’t make their own budget public. We are just getting to see Jonathan’s budgetary figures NOW”.