3 Most Shocking Things About Nigeria’s 2016 Budget

Nigeria’s 2016 “Budget of Change” has seen a lot of censure of recent.

The document since its presentation at the National Assembly by
President Muhammadu Buhari had bring a lot of embarrassment to the Nigerian government and Nigerians as a whole. Several people have called it a fraud following some shocking discoveries found in the document.
Here are three most shocking discoveries about errors in the budget:

• N4.9million was budgeted for books in the office of the Vice President. That sum is N2.6million less than the budget for books in that same office last year, but it is still over one million naira more than the budget for books in 11 out of the 22 federal polytechnics in the country.

• Nearly N1billion was set aside for vehicles and vehicle maintenance, with the office of the SGF getting N400million, even though the same office received N291million for new cars between 2014 and 2015.

• The State House clinic will get an upgrade of N3.87billion, about N500million more than what was budgeted for the 16 federal-government owned teaching hospitals, responsible for thousands of patients across the country.

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