Back in February, President Muhammadu Buhari vowed
that all those involved in the padding of the 2016 budget
will face the most severe punishment.
President Muhammadu Buhari has removed about 184 top
budget officials from budget duties and redeployed them
to establishments that have little or nothing to do with
budget over their roles in padding the 2016 budget.
The present move is pursuance to his earlier stance to
deal decisively with all those involved in the padding of the
2016 National Budget which has brought much
embarrassment to the federal government.
Speaking about the shakeup, a top official in the budget
office confirmed to Vanguard that 22 top officers from the
budget office of the federation were affected in the mass
deployment.
The rest were moved away from budget-related duties in
other ministries, departments and agencies, (MDAs).
Following the mass redeployment, 14 other directors said
to have been tested have been redeployed to the same
office with immediate effect to replace the removed
officers.
The directive to redeploy the tainted officers to other
duties reportedly came the office of the head of service of
the federation.
All the affected officers, according to the directive, are to
report in their new locations on or before the close of work
today, March 10.
Recall that back in February, President Muhammadu
Buhari complained the unauthorised alterations of the
2016 budget had completely changed the document from
the one he presented to the National Assembly,
He vowed that all those involved in the padding of the
budget will face the most severe punishment. He also
ordered for investigation into allegations of fraudulent
alterations in the document with strict orders that all
cases of discrepancies, errors and ambiguities be resolved
promptly.
