The absurdity represented by the 2013 budget, tagged "Budget Of Responsibility as presented by Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema to the Katsina State House of Assembly has ushered in another season of lies and deceits.
It is becoming so serious that people are beginning to assess the success or otherwise of the annual ritual with simple ability to read English while reeling out figures with dots in the right places. This may explain the tendency for people to clap and cheer when governors goes for the annual charade.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article