Nigeria’s House of Representatives has denied allegations of padding in budgetary allocation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the revised 2020 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The denial was contained in a statement Friday by the Chairman, House Committee on SDGs, Rotimi Agunsoye.
The statement said it wanted to make a clarification on the allegation to avoid misrepresentation of the earlier correspondence between the National Assembly Committees on SDGs and Federal Ministry of Finance.
According to him, the House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals was drawn to a publication by national newspaper, with the headline ”2020 Budget: Row over N33b SDGs’ vote.”
The story stated that N33 billion was included in the allocation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the 2020 Budget without details being provided to the National Assembly and consequently direct the Ministry of Finance to stop release of allocation to the SDGs office.
