President
Muhammadu Buhari has threatened to sack chief executives of federal
parastatals and agencies that fail to appear before the National
Assembly to defend their budgets.
It
was learnt that Buhari made his position known during a meeting he had
with the leadership of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja on Thursday evening.
A source who was at the meeting
who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Buhari took the decision
after the federal lawmakers succeeded in convincing him that they should
not be blamed for the delay in passing the appropriation bill so far.
The federal lawmakers were also said to have reported some ministers who
they claimed had not been cooperating with them to the President.
The
source said, “ His directive to the SGF was that they should start
fishing out chief executives who fail to defend their budget, because he
was told that out of about 60 of them, only about 10 have appeared. He
has asked that ministers should supervise them. It is a serious issue.
He made it clear that by the time people are being sacked, there will be
sanity.”
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