Nigeria: '90% of Constituency Projects Executed in 2016 Budget'

Abuja — Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, says over 90 per cent of the constituency projects captured in the controversial 2016 budget were executed by the Federal Government. He admitted also that the 2017 appropriation, recently signed into law by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, was majorly achieved through lobby.

Speaking at a seminar titled, "Executive-Legislative Relations: Gaps, Challenges and Prospects" organised by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) for participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) 10 in Abuja yesterday, Dogara, who was represented by the Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, noted that the rancour between the executive and the legislative arms of government was to strengthen democracy.

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