Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), has spoken about the budget padding saga.
Senator Enang stated faulted the re-drafting of appropriation bills by the legal department of the legislature, insisting that the avenues were giving room for padding of budgets.
He stated this in his paper presented at Legislative Lawyers Forum, LLF, during the just concluded 2016 Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to him, the practice must stop, if padding of budget must be brought to end.
He said: “There is the common practice that after bills may have been passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives, the legal department now re-drafts the bills, perhaps, changing certain words to give them a presentation in a legal draftsman’s perfect legislative draft.
“This, in my view, is inconsistent with the provisions of the law.”