The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akanueze has said there are no discrepancies in the proposed 2019 budget.
Reacting to comments by some members of the House of Rep during the second reading of the 2019 Appropriation Bill on Wednesday, they had detected some miscalculations in the budget, Akabueze noted that officials of the Budget Office of the Federation had met with the Secretariat of the House Appropriations Committee to review the claims and no discrepancies were found.
A short statement signed by Akabueze himself, read: “Our attention has been drawn to the allegation by a member of the House of Representatives during its debate on the 2019 Budget Proposal yesterday concerning errors and/or discrepancies in the 2019 Appropriation Bill.
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“Earlier today, officials of the Budget Office of the Federation met with the Secretariat of the House Appropriations Committee to review the honourable member’s observations.
“The outcome of the review is that there are no errors/discrepancies as alleged by the honourable member.
“It is instructive to note that the presentation format of both the Appropriations Bill and Budget Details for 2019 are consistent with prior years.
“Although we have yet to receive any formal communication from the National Assembly on these observations, we have written a letter to the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, and are issuing this statement in view of the wide coverage the observations have received in the media.”
