Nigeria: Minister, MPs Quarrel Over Budget

21 November 2012

Science and Technology Minister Professor Ita Okon Bassey-Ewa and members of the House of Representatives Committee supervising the ministry yesterday engaged themselves in a verbal brawl over budget implementation.

The minister and his team appeared before the committee to defend the 2013 budget proposal of the ministry but trouble started when lawmakers asked him to give the actual budget performance of his ministry.

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