Saturday, 16 January 2016

Budget Switch: Group Calls On Buhari To Sack Enang, Sumaila


AGAINST the backdrop of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s disclosure that the original budget was ‘switched’ by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, a group, Proper Legislative Initiative has called for the immediate sack of Senior Special Assistants to the President on National Assembly Matters, Enang and Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila (Senate and House of Representatives respectively).


The group through its chairman, Saleh Maisalati said that the development was too shameful for the Nigerian democracy to handle, stressing that, the sudden missing of the national document as weighty as a nation’s budget was “too unbelievable, if not that the Senate President has confirmed to the nation that Senator Enang was responsible for that.”

Maisalati noted that if such things could happen at the critical stage of the nation’s soul searching, “What then should we expect when the new developmental programmes of the present administration start taking shape?”

He called on President Buhari to, as a matter of saving the face of our democracy, sack his two Special Assistants at the National Assembly, noting that “It is only when these people are sacked that the trust between the Presidency and the Legislature can stand firmly. If not, then there is the possibility of suspicious working relationship between the two separate bodies. “

When asked to shed more light on Sumaila’s link with the new development, as there was nowhere his name was mentioned by the Senate President, Comrade Maisalati queried how the two special assistants were conducting their affairs without consultation.

He said: “If you said to me it was only Enang that caused this confusion, I would ask you, who and who facilitated Buhari’s budget presentation at the National Assembly, and who and who accompanied him there? Look we are neither saying Kawu sumaila was clearly a party to this, nor Mr. Enang as posited by the Senate President.”




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