Budget Missing? Which Budget? Stupid! By Yusuf Ozi-Usman

It was very annoying seeing adults; educated adults speaking, writing and believing in what even a kindergarten child would simply dismiss with a wave of hand.
Whose idea it was anyway that the Nigerian budget, presented to the joint session of the National Assembly last month was missing? Missing from where? For what purpose?
As a matter of fact, I had started writing this piece when the Senate leader, Senator Muhammed Ndume came up with the true position of thing: that the budget cannot disappear.
Of course, before Senator Ndume clarified the issue, it really made no professional sense for anybody to allow such trash as the budget is missing to be featured on his platform.
It is as if they don’t know that copies of the budget are usually distributed to relevant committees immediately after it is presented by the President or his representative. That even the two chambers of the National Assembly are necessarily handed the copies of the budget right after the presentation. Which of the copies some media practitioners were deceived to publish as missing?
More importantly too is the realization that not quite a week after it was presented to the National Assembly, the copy was available not only in the google search engine, but also in other social media platforms.
What then made the purported missing of the 2016 budget such a big issue on which media fell over one another to publish?
When I first read it earlier in the day, I comforted myself to believe that it was not real: that the media operators were actually not doing what they were doing. But it gained ground so much that even newspaper editors had to ask their reporters to find out from the Presidency if actually it withdrew the document.
Have the operators of the publishing outfits gone so low that they cannot even do a very simple calculation or judgment? How would the nation budget have disappeared and there were no other way of getting the same document? They should have contacted me for a copy, which I have in my file, on my laptop.
Habba! [myad]