The 10th Senate has said reports that it padded the supplementary budget, which was passed into law last week, were mischievous.
The upper legislative chamber was reacting to reports in some online news outlets that the sum of 70 billion naira was padded into the supplementary budget as a “gift” from the executive arm of government.
In a statement issued by the Chairman of, the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, and made available to newsmen in Abuja, he wondered how the purveyors arrived at such reports, stating that passing laws was exclusive to lawmakers, hence, they needed no gift from the executive arm of government before doing their works.
The statement asserted that the passage of the Supplementary Appropriation Act was to accommodate funding for the Federal Government’s Palliative for the Nigerian public, among other National demands.