Health Minister, Professor Isaac Adewole has told the Senate Committee on Health that the original budget of his ministry had been distorted and strange by unknown Nigerians with strange figures smuggled in.
Professor Adewole asked the committee to discard the budget before it and await a new one to be re-submitted today which he said would reflect the programmes of the health sector in 2016.
The minister’s disclosure further reinforced a recent discovery that some unscrupulous Nigerians had imported strange figures into the 2016 budget in pursuit of their greed and corrupt tendencies.
Last week, Senate Committee on Education discovered N10 billion tucked into the education budget.
The revelation compelled the Chairman of the Senate Committee, Senator Lanre Tejuosho, to announce an imminent executive session with the minister with a view to thrashing out emerging issues on the budget as the minister further disclosed that there were some issues on which conclusion had not been reached by the ministry and yet allocations had been made to them without the ministry’s knowledge. [myad]
