BUDGET PADDİNG: Buhari carries out threat, dismisses 22

Without making it a public issue, the Federal Government has dismissed 22 top civil servants in the country over allegations of padding the 2016 budget

This was revealed in President Muhammadu Buhari’s authorised biography that was made public on Monday.

Titled, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’, the author, Prof. John Paden, stated that President Buhari view the padding issue as an attempt by the perpetrators to undermine his administration.

“Buhari himself was frustrated by earlier padding of the budget by bureaucrats in some of the ministries.

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“This was interpreted by the Buhari team as an attempt to scuttle the innovations proposed by the President by inflating their costs.

“When Buhari found out, he was reported to be angry and ordered a purge of the ministries involved from the Director-General down.

“Twenty-two top officials were dismissed, including the budget director. In all, 184 civil servants were disciplined.”

It would be recalled that President Buhari had vowed to deal with anybody found culpable in the padding saga.

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