Budget Padding: ‘Some senior Senators got ₦500m each, I didn’t get’ – Senator Jarigbe

More revelations have emerged concerning the ongoing budget padding saga indicating that some Senators got ₦500m naira each from the 2024 budget.

This was made known by Senator Jarigbe, representing Cross River North senatorial district, on Tuesday on the Senate floor during its session on the allegation of 2024 budget padding.

Senator Abdul Ningi representing Bauchi Central on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had earlier alleged that N3.7 trillion was padded into the 2024 budget.

Ningi is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Population and represents PDP, Bauchi Central.

However, Jarigbe said he didn’t get anything and that no Senator has a right to accuse Senator Ningi.

“We are going back and forth with this issue of the budget and individual issues with what came to our various constituencies. If we want to go into those issues, all of us are culpable.

“Some Senators here, so-called senior Senators, got N500 million each. I am a ranking Senator and I did not get. Did I go to the press? Most of you got.

“If we want to go into those issues…I think that Senator Ningi….,” he said before his microphone was cut off.