Abuja — THE 2014 budget may run into problems due to lack of
synergy between the Budget Office and some revenue generating Ministries,
Departments and Agencies, MDAs, as House Committee on Finance raised alarm that
the budget was already in deficit.
The crux of the matter emerged, yesterday, at the
continuation of meetings between the House of Representatives Committee on
Finance and some independent revenue generating agencies.
Two major...
agencies, including the Federal Airports Authority
of Nigeria, FAAN, and Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency,
NIMASA, presented fiscal projections at variance with that of Budget Office.
This is just as the suspension of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as
the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor did not afford the institution the
chance to make its submission before the committee, which pegged the level of
presenters as that of directors and above in any of the agencies.
Also, the representative sent by the CBN was not able to
make any submission as the committee insisted that the acting governor should
appear.
FAAN and NIMASA had their presentations deferred till today
because of lack of clarity and inconsistencies in their submissions.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which was
billed to appear before the committee yesterday, did not.
Chairman of the committee, Abdulmumini Jibrin, decried the
disharmony between the Budget Office and the MDAs, following submissions by
NIMASA and FAAN that they did not interface with the Budget Office which
submitted revenue projections for them to the committee.
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