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He said: “The total budget of all 36 states of the federation for 2024 stands at about N14 trillion. If you add that of the FCT, the entire budget of all sub-nationals is N15.91 trillion. This is scandalous. Worse still, they have already awarded the contract but are still not sure of the level of the counterpart funding component of the Federal Government!
Spokesman of the group, Amb Binebai Princewill, said in a statement that the group was wondering where the misleading information came from, as the IYC had openly via a press statement signed its spokesman on Monday, March 18, 2024, condemned in strong terms the killings of the 17 military personnel.
The security and all related sectors have collapsed. “But who would trust the gluttons in the National Assembly enjoying the stupendous entitlements from the bloated allocations budgeted to them yearly to honestly pass a law to reduce their windfalls? At best, they are just telling Nigerians what they want to hear with no commitment to let it materialize. These lawmakers, insensitive to the increasing suffering Nigerians are facing from their misrule know that public anger is mounting and something can give. So, I presume they are just playing this script with the bill to divert public atten...
Justice Phoebe Ayuba of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered parties in a suit filed by Barrister Ehie Ogerenye Edison, the new