The offending discoveries that made Buhari withhold assent to 2016 budget

President Muhammadu Buhari is not happy with certain details of the 2016 budget sent to him for assent by the National Assembly.

He has therefore asked the legislators to take back the budget and reinsert some key national projects which they allegedly removed and to remove the ones inserted by them to enable him assent to the document.

Vanguard reports that the President would in the alternative "sign the budget as a formality and introduce a supplementary budget to remove the offending items and to reflect his wish for Nigerians."
The lawmakers are reported to have reallocated large amounts of money from some of President Buhari’s key projects to their own constituency projects.

Vanguard also reports that among other infractions, the lawmakers;

* removed N4 billion from the Ministry of Health's budget and added it to the Code of Conduct Tribunal

* added the cost of 80 illegal roads without design to the Ministry of Works' budget, 30 of them not Federal

* diverted money meant for Works and power transmission to  tricycles, town halls and boreholes in their constituencies

* added 73 illegal projects to Education budget with no designs available for the projects, and no tenders conducted

* slashed money for poor students by 50% in Education budget and added same to their states constituencies.

* removed N60 billion meant for the Calabar-Lagos rail project.

Meanwhile, President Buhari, left Abuja for Beijing, China, on Sunday night to seek financial support for the country.