The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the $1 billion approved for the fight against the Boko Haram terrorist in the North East by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government is questionable.
The PDP in a statement on Friday by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan wondered why the APC-led government had to recourse to the National Economic Council (NEC), "avoiding the direct constitutional appropriation channel of the National Assembly for funding of items already provided for in the federal budget."
The party said the government has something it was hiding, adding that "the federal government must be held accountable and stopped from any move to fritter away our national savings."
The PDP also vowed to ensure that the APC does not continue to "play with the intelligence of Nigerians" who he said were only waiting for 2019 to vote out the APC.
"The PDP supports the fight against insurgency. We hold our officers and men confronting the terrorists and securing our territorial integrity in high esteem, but we are concerned about the manipulative tendencies connected with the approvals as well as the veracity of claimed purpose of the fund.
"Nigerians would recall that the APC-led federal government had claimed that it has since defeated the insurgents. If it would take a billion dollar from a nation's savings to kill what they long claimed dead, then we challenge APC government to come clean and tell Nigerians the whole truth.
"The era of lies and propaganda is long gone and Nigerians now know the truth. The federal government must be held accountable and stopped from any move to fritter away our national savings.
"We therefore call on the National Assembly to interrogate this proposed disbursement and subject it to a thorough but rapid interrogation.
"By accepting the $1bn for fighting insurgency, the APC-led federal government has admitted that it lied when it announced that it has defeated the insurgents. They should therefore apologize to Nigerians for giving them a false sense of security, resulting in their vulnerability to attacks by terrorists," the party said.
Source: Dailytrust
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