Executive Not Implementing Capital Component Of 2024 Budget Because Of Weak National Assembly Leadership — Arewa Youths

A Northern Nigerian sociopolitical group under the auspices of Arewa Next Generation Leaders has slammed the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, describing them as rubber stamp, ineffective and too slow.

The group said it is a sign of failure for the National Assembly not to have checkmated the executive to implement the capital components of the 2024 budget.

The group in statement by Mallam Nasiru Muh’d on Thursday in Kaduna, said it was a total shame and total embarrassment for the country to be operating three different budgets in 2024, without implementing the capital components of the 2024 budget.

The group urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rise to the occasion by implementing the 2024 budget, saying: “The president must understand that everything is at the point of a standstill because of the failure of his administration to implement the capital components of the 2024 budget. It is surprisingly this is coming from the president. We understand he has a weak National Assembly leadership; but he must understand that Nigerians are frustrated.

“We have scored the senate leadership low for not pushing the executive enough to implement the capital component of the 2024 budget. There is a need for the government to get Ministries, Department and Agencies of the Federal Government to implement the budget.

The Senate should urged the Federal Government to intensify efforts in funding the capital components of the three national budgets which are running concurrently in the country.”

The pro-democracy group also chided the senate president, Godswill Akpabio for failing to carry other senators along in certain affairs of the upper chamber, describing his leadership style as autocratic and ineffective.

“Akpabio has shown a lack of empathy for poor and suffering Nigerian masses when he recently turned a ‘let Nigerians breathe’ comment by a senator into a pun which attracted mocking laughter from his colleagues during plenary. He is running a man show without carrying other lawmakers along to make the legislative arm for effective. It is wrong for Akpabio and the leadership of the National Assembly not to have rally round others to compel the executive to implement the 2024 budget. It is a shame that under his watch, Nigeria is operating three different budgets.”