I’ll soon make N/ Assembly budget breakdown public — Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has reiterated his
pledge to end the secrecy surrounding the
National Assembly budget, saying the breakdown
would soon be made public.
Hosting a team of editors of the London based
newspaper, “The Economist”, Saraki said Nigerians
would in the next few weeks be given details of
the budget which would be a departure from the
tradition of having a one line item budget.
“For the first time we promised Nigerians to give
out our budget breakdown. The committee will
make its report available by next week. We are
resolved to break the tradition of one line item,”
he said.
Saraki in a statement by his Special Assistant on
Public Affairs, Mohammed Isa, said the Senate
was ever ready to partner with President
Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the success of the
anti-corruption war.
He said under his watch the senate would never
cover up corruption except the information didn’t
get to the chamber.
According to him, the Senate had already
demonstrated such commitment through its
interventions on many alleged corrupt
transactions such as the Treasury Single Account
(TSA) that saved the nation about N7bn.
He allayed the fears that the low prices of oil will
have negative impact on the implementation of
the 2016 budget, saying, “what we need to do is to
block leakages and show more transparency”.