Lawmaker representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Senator Agom Jarigbe says his colleague, Senator Abdul Ningi, ought to have tabled his allegation of funds padding to the Senate for dialogue throughout plenary.
reporter remembers that Ningi, representing Bauchi Central on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, had alleged that about N3.7 trillion within the 2024 funds was not tied to any venture.
The allegation, nevertheless, landed him three months suspension after the Senate deliberated on the matter throughout plenary on Tuesday.
Talking on the matter, Jarigbe, who appeared on Come up TV on Wednesday, mentioned the controversial N3.7 trillion was later found to have been “captured underneath the GOEs, judiciary, Nationwide Meeting”.
In line with him, Ningi shouldn’t have gone to the press to disseminate the alleged padding within the funds.
He mentioned, “For the nobble Senators that determined to research the funds and even obtained a guide to have a look at it, they in all probability determined to do this earlier than Senator Ningi who’s a frontrunner of that Discussion board took it up.
“I don’t assume it was essential for them to do this and even go to the press, I feel it might have been delivered to the ground of the Senate to be mentioned in our government part.
“You uncover that when the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation defined the scenario, the N3.7 trillion was found to have been captured underneath the GOEs, judiciary, nationwide assemblies. These had been within the first line cost.
“It was like an optical phantasm. N3.7 trillion was a fallacy. If it was delivered to the ground of the Senate, the controversy would have been defined”.
