CorruptionNewsPoliticsReps to Probe Alleged N1.1bn Deducted from Culture and Tourism 2021 Budget

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ABUJA — The House of Representatives committee on culture and tourism has vowed to probe into the alleged deduction of N1.1 billion from the 2021 budgetary allocation for culture and tourism.

The committee reached the resolution on Thursday during a sitting in Abuja.

Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, chairman of the committee, confirmed the committee’s resolution to set up a sub-panel would be probe into the alleged alteration in the 2021 budget.

He assured that the committee will investigate every segment of the budget which covers culture and tourism.

“I am not very happy with the national assembly with due respect, because a whopping 33 percent of my budget was chopped off,” Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture had said to the committee during the sitting.

The minister who appeared before the committee to defend the 2022 budget proposal of his ministry, explained that the N1.1 billion deducted represented 33 percent of the 2021 budget for tourism and culture.

“I proposed N3 billion and they took N1.1 billion out of it and by that, I was paralyzed completely; there was nothing I could do.

“The national assembly is like the supreme court. Once they give the verdict, there is no other court to appeal to. So, I am extremely distressed. I complained that the proposal was small, the national assembly made it even worse,’’ he said.

According to Mohammed, the ministry would have done little or nothing for tourism in 2021, save for its ingenuity to source funds.

Beloved John (Staff Writer)

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