Budget Padding: ‘You know my take-home pay but I don’t know yours’ – Ningi hits Akpabio

He said: “We discovered, some senatorial districts in this
documents have up to N120 billion and my senatorial district has just N1.2
billion.

“Mr President in this budget presented to you, I have facts,
constituency by constituency. Some N120 billion, some N50 billion; some N30
billion. Some have less than N1 billion.

“Mr President as I speak to you, I don’t know your take-home
pay, you know my own. I don’t know the take-home pay of any of the other
principal officers.

“My President, I know within budgetary provisions, you made
available funds for purchase of cars. Mr President, I don’t know how much you
made for your cars and principals officers. I know how much was made for
individual senator’s cars.

“As I speak to you, people are calling me names, I didn’t
receive a single car.

“All within the budget provisions, Mr President, I have as a
matter of fact, five aides just like other senators but I don’t know how many
aides you have or how many the Deputy Senate President has.”