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Senate Flays Mines Minister Over ‘Envelope Budgeting’

“Nigeria is bleeding from this envelope form of budgeting riddled with repetition of line items and allocations on yearly basis.

by The Union Nigeria
November 2, 2021
in Legislative
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The Senate Commitee on Solid Minerals, Mine, Steel Development and Metallurgy on Monday came down heavily on the executive for forwarding to the National Assembly on yearly basis, envelope budgeting for approval.

It also flayed the Federal Government for the abandonment of Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Complex through non provision of required budgetary votes on yearly basis.

The proposed N23.4billion 2022 budget estimates, enveloped for the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development as presented by the Minister of State, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah prompted the anger of the Committee members over the envelope budgeting and abandonment of Ajaokuta Steel project.

Dr Ogah who represented the Minister, Arch Olamilekan Adegbite in his presentation, said out of the N23.4billion budget profile for the Ministry in 2022, N10billion is for personnel cost , N1.47billion for overhead cost and N11billion for capital Projects.

Apparently piqued by the presentation, members of the committee one after the other lamented over the meagre budgetary allocation for the sector which according to them, should rank second after the oil and gas sector.

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Senate Flays Mines Minister Over ‘Envelope Budgeting’
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The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Tanko Al- Makura (APC Nasarawa South), said “The yearly ritual called budget, is like garbage in garbage out, which will not take the country to anywhere as far as required diversification is concerned.

“The type of budgeting process being carried out in this country over the years, is stereotypic one. It is wrong for budget to be conceptualised in the ministry, enveloped and forward to the National Assembly for approval.”

Senator Smart Adeyemi (APC Kogi West) said the economic team of President Muhammadu Buhari is clearly out of tune with the realities on ground as regards what Nigerians need.

“How on Earth would a Minister propose N82billion for procurement of Mosquito net and a sector as important as the Solid Minerals, given N10 or N11billion? He fumed.

Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Complex that can give jobs to about 50, 000 Nigerians he lamented, is lying fallow in a country with army of unemployed youths who can stage Revolution at any time.

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“Nigeria is bleeding from this envelope form of budgeting riddled with repetition of line items and allocations on yearly basis.

“Government may be building infrastructure but building infrastructure is not as good as creating wealth through diversification of the economy.

“The best way of doing this is to remove whatever bottleneck hindering continuation of work on Ajaokuta Steel complex and get it completed “, he said .

But the Minister in his response said envelope budgeting was not the creation of the ministry as it affects other government agencies.

“My appeal to you distinguished Senators on the current model of budgeting is for the National Assembly to seek the attention of the President.

“Operating with envelope as far as yearly budget is concerned, doesn’t make one think out of the box. It makes one looks stupid.

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Senate Flays Mines Minister Over ‘Envelope Budgeting’
Uche Ogah, Minister of State for mines and steel development.

“We have the passion to drive the development of the country and transform into reality , the Vision of Mr President like other patriotic Nigerians in one public Office or the other‘, he said .

He added that even with the envelope budgeting and lean resources, the Ministry has changed the narrative of low internally generated revenue to very appreciable figures now.

“In recent past, it used to be N2billion on yearly basis but has increased to N6.2billion now with a target of hitting N10billion by the end of the year “, he said.

However, as a result of short notice given the Ministry for the budget presentation, the Committee later reschedule Monday next week for detailed defence of 2021 budget implementation and presentation of 2022 budget estimates respectively.

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