President Muhammadu Buhari has
dared the national assembly to confront him publicly on capital projects.
Buhari said this on Tuesday when
he hosted the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) led by Hameed Ali,
comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service.
In his speech, the president
wondered what members of the national assembly have been doing, even when some
of them have spent over a decade as lawmakers.
“This year and last year’s budget
I took to the national assembly was the highest in capital projects – more than
1.3 trillion naira. Let anybody come and confront me publicly in the national
assembly,” he said.
“What have they been doing? Some
of them have been there for 10 years. What have they been doing?”
The national assembly had
disagreed with Buhari over the purchase of $496 million Tucano aircraft from
the US without its approval.
In a move to pacify the
lawmakers, Buhari wrote to the senate and house of reps on April 13, confirming
giving anticipatory approval for the payment of the aircraft.
He said the $496 million used was
from the $1 billion to be withdrawn from the excess crude account as agreed by
governors.
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