BUHARI SET TO SACK TOP FEDERAL CIVIL SERVANTS

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, is set to sack top officials of the Federal Government for inflating the 2016 National budget to the tune of N1.7tn.
According information obtained by The Nation, some top officials of the Civil service known as the ‘Budget Mafia’, went through the back to include items such as vote for Aso Rock clinic and purchase of communication equipments into the budget.

The mafia after learning the total budget will be more than N8tn, decided to inflate it by 1.7tn for their personal gains.

This development has however angered Mr. President who has ordered that their names be compiled send submitted to him for disciplinary actions.

A source who spoke to The Nation’s correspondent revealed;

Some top civil servants sabotaged the presidency by including extraneous items in the 2016 Budget,” one source said last night.

“Members of the Budget Mafia are spread across all Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

“When the budget was being compiled, they frustrated all the deadlines set by the presidency.

“Despite the vigilance of Buhari and his cabinet, it was embarrassing to the government to hear of some smuggled items.

“Bureaucratic resistance and entrenched systemic corrupt practices dogged every move of the presidency to produce proposals reflecting financial prudence and frugality, during the preparation of the 2016 Budget now before the National Assembly.

“For instance, after learning that the presidency was considering a large budget of possibly N8 trillion in order to significantly increase capital expenditure, bureaucrats brought a proposal of N9.7 trillion for overhead and capital spending even without personnel spending.

“Of the proposed N9.7 trillion, the bureaucrats planned to spend an alarming N3 trillion on overhead alone but the presidency eventually slashed this to N163b lower by 8% than 2015 budget which was N177billion, indicating massive cut of some of the main provisions by the Buhari presidency.

“These bureaucrats also proposed to spend N2.1 trillion on personnel for the 2016 estimates compared to about N1.8 trillion in the 2015 budget.

“But the presidency also cut this down to N1.7 trillion in the final estimates sent to the legislatur