According to Vanguardngr An aide
to President Muhammadu Buhari has said the president won’t spend the $1 billion
from the nation’s Excess Crude Oil Account,
ECA, to fund the fight against
insecurity unless he receives approval from the National Assembly.
“I want to
clarify that none of these monies will be used by Mr. President, by the
military or released for any purpose unless and until the money is appropriated
by the National Assembly,” Ita Enang, a presidential assistant on National
Assembly matters, said in Uyo.
The Senate
had before embarking on its recess in December asked the president not to spend
the money without appropriation by the National Assembly. Nigerians have
expressed divergent opinions on the government’s intention to withdraw the
money which it said would be used to fight Boko Haram and other forms of
insecurity in the different parts of the country. Enang, a former senator,
spoke on the controversy surrounding the money when he granted an interview to
Atlantic FM, Uyo.
“I will say that the 2018 budget is still before the National
Assembly. If we conclude the tallying to know what the different armed services
need, the army, the air force, and the navy, and the police, and others, we
will then present that to the National Assembly, and we will only implement it
subject to what they have approved.”
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