Nigeria: Budget Defence - Season of Contradictions

3 December 2012

The skepticism with which Nigerians view National Budget has led to its perception as an annual ritual. UCHENNA AWOM writes that a new season bundled with figure contradictions are here again.

The National Assembly premises has become a Mecca of some sort. Ministers, heads of government agencies and departments, service chiefs and many other public officers throng the precincts of the complex to give account of how the previous year budget were spent and how the proposed 2013 budget would be spent.

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