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Senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe, has said contrary to the claim that some ranking senators received N500 million from the 2024 budget, he had only received N266 million.
A federal lawmaker representing Cross River North, Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, had during plenary, on Tuesday, said that some senior senators had received N500 million each from the 2024 budget.
The revelation came on the heel of an ongoing controversy over an allegation of budget padding made by Senator Abdul Ningi in an interview with BBC Hausa.
Ningi had earlier accused the Senate of padding the 2024 budget, saying the National Assembly added an extra N3.7 trillion to the initial budget.
Reacting to the development, during a chat with ARISE TV, Senator Abaribe said Ningi knew it was a mistake claiming what he could not prove, because he was not a new member in the Senate.
Abaribe added that despite him, himself, being a senior senator, he had not received the N500 million alleged by Jarigbe.
He said, āSenator Ningi knew it was going to be a mistake. He knew. Heās a member of the Senate. He canāt say he didnāt know. Heās an old Senator. He has been in the Senate before. He knew that this wasnāt correct.
āI never got 500 million. I think Jarigbe tried to clarify his statement. He came back subsequently to say, āNo, Ningi told me I was givenā, because he didnāt get. Heās also a ranking Senator.
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āSo, I think that at the end of the day, what you see really is thatā¦well, Iām an APGA Senatorāthe only APGA Senator in the Senate. Maybe being a minority of the minority, they didnāt consider me worthy of being given. Nobody told me about that money.
āI wanted to say that, without equivocation, that both Jarigbe and the Senate leader tried to clarify this issue. Number one: nobody was given 500 million. Even a few of my colleagues called me to say, āAhh you get 500 million we dey beg you for money but you no wan give us one naira out of it.ā
āCan you imagine? So, of course I got 266 million for whatās called Zonal Intervention Fund which Nigerians call āconstituency projectā funds. And this thing takes a budget circle which is twelve months. So if at the end of twelve months you donāt see whatās in the budget for your constituency, then you hold your representatives whether in the Reps or Senate culpable.ā
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