Buhari for giving us, for the first time in 17 years, a holy budget -Dino Melaye @dino_melaye

 

Dino Melaye, an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator representing Kogi west, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 budget as holy.

Speaking on Thursday He said ;
“I thank President Muhammadu Buhari for giving us, for the first time in 17 years, a holy budget,” he said. “And instead of repatriating our national patrimony for the purchase of stoves, he has given something to the youth. Let me say, that borrowing this time will be beneficial to the ‘talakawas’,the ‘mekunus’ and the palm-wine tappers in Umuleri.

“This administration is bringing back our long-lost reputation as a country.” The time to be born again is now. Once I was blind, but now I can see.” Making her own contribution, Abiodun Olujimi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Ekiti state, described the budget as deficient.

“The expenditure and the deficits are the problems in this budget,” she said. “This budget is not a budget of change because there is a deficiency.” On his part, Olusola Adeyeye, an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator from Osun state and chief whip, called for a departure from oil revenue to an increase in tax revenues through effective taxing system. He also decried the cost of governance, arguing that some government parastatals must go instead of funding them.