“Some So Called Senior Senators Got N500M Each. I Am A Ranking Senator, I Didn’t Get It”, Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe Revealed (video)
Federal lawmaker representing Cross River North , Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, has said that some senior senators received a total of N500 million each from the 2024 budget.
Jarigbe made this disclosure during a plenary session on Tuesday in the Red Chamber in Abuja.
This revelation is coming on the heels of the ongoing controversy of allegations of budget padding made by Senator Abdul Ningi in an interview with BBC Hausa.
Ningi had earlier accused the Senate of paddling the 2024 budget, saying the National Assembly added an extra N3.7 billion to the initial budget.
Reacting to the development, the Cross River lawmaker said all senators are guilty of such practice, alleging that some senior senators received N500 million each from the 2024 appropriation bill.
“If we want to go into this issue, all of us are culpable. Some senators here, so called senior senators got N500 million each. I am a ranking senator. I didn’t get it. Did I go to the press? We don’t have to go into those issues,” he said.
