Group
calls for constituencies’ project………..Says
Wale Fatade
The
media support centre MSC an organization that uses the collective information
of Nigerians to advocate social justice issues and those of good governance has
today delve on Nigerian constituencies with its
current project on “they work for you; campaign to reform the
consistency projects in Nigeria”. This project centers on bringing attention to
the public as to know more on how billions of naira.
Basically,
the burdens of Nigeria democratic governance are not solely to be shoulder by
the presidency however huge trunk of it is at the disposal of the members of
the Senate and the House of Representatives respectively. Last years 100 billion
naira fund is being allocated to constituency projects. To this senator Ali Ndume
confirmed when he said that “a total of 900 billion has so far been
appropriated for constituency projects of legislature since 2004. The money
which is domiciled in the central bank of Nigeria with the ministry of finance;
ministry of special duties and inter-
governmental affairs in Abuja, the project usually come to the national
assembly as an executive act special intervention fund”. This year’s budget
recently got signed and the budgeted amount is 4.6 trillion naira as agreed by
the Senate and House Of Representatives.
