- Elrufai Publishes Security Vote
Reacting to El-Rufai’s statement, the House of Representatives said yesterday that it would publish the details of its budget as soon as the 2017 budget was passed into law.
Spokesman of the House, Abdulrazak Namdas (APC, Adamawa) said Speaker Yakubu Dogara had already directed the management of the House to do that.
Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El- Rufai of Kaduna State has made public his monthly salary which reflects a gross pay of N555,926.74 and take home pay of N470,521.74.
He also published his security votes and local funds, which is in response to Speaker of House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara’s challenge to the governor to publish his security vote and budgets for both the state and local governments.
The monies, El-rufai said, reflected what the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission approved as the salary and allowances of every state governor.
The Governor said in a statement released on Monday by his media aide, Samuel Aruwan that the budgets of all state governments in Nigeria were detailed out and were usually presented under the headings of personnel costs, overhead, and capital expenditure.
“However, that of National Assembly was a single line item of over N100 billion that divulged zero information or details,” Aruwa stated.
“On our part, the Kaduna State government has consistently made public all its budget details.
“In 2016, in an unprecedented step, the state published not only its own budget, but also that of all the 23 local government councils online on the www.
“The local government budgets provide details of the recurrent and capital spending of every single LG in a transparent manner.’’
“ The proposed 2017 LG budgets, currently before the state Assembly, are also already online on the same website, and on www.kdsg.gov.ng
Governor El- rufai then reiterated his call to the National Assembly leadership to publish the details of the National Assembly budget, and the salaries and allowances of its leadership.
