Abubakar Sulaiman, immediate past Minister of National Planning has described as ‘tissue of lies’ the claim by Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-rufai that the administration of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan spent N64billion on the country’s independence celebrations in five years.
According to the former Minister. “For the record, a breakdown of our anniversary spending between 2012 to 2014 amounted to N332.6million. We challenge the Office of the Government of the Federation (OSGF) to publish these details for the consumption of the public.
Continuing, he said, “For the record, a breakdown of our spending for this event between 2012 and 2014 goes thus; 2012-107.6million; 2013-45million and 2014 had 180million.
“So, the question here is where did the billions as claimed by El-Rufai emanate from? Even though that of 2010 and 2011 are not handy now, but it should be known that they all fall within the same bracket as the one stated, except that the 2010 anniversary was a golden one when the country marked her 50 year of independence. But even then, not such outrageous sum was either budgeted or expended”, he said.
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