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| Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi |
The Senate has asked the Minister
of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, to apologise if he fails to prove that the
Lagos-Calabar road project was included in the 2016 budget. Otherwise, Mr.
Amaechi should should resign forthwith, the senate said in a statement Monday.
The Senate advised the Presidency
to come clean with Nigerians on the 2016 Budget and stop engaging in
surreptitious campaigns of calumny against the upper legislative chamber, to
cover up its serial errors.
Reacting to reports in the media
credited to the executive arm of government, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, chairman,
Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, said in a statement that the
National Assembly had bent backwards to wring a coherent document out of the
excessively flawed and chaotic versions of the budget proposal submitted to the
National Assembly.
“This latest antics of this
particular minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is reckless, uncalled
for and dangerously divisive. Apart from setting the people of the southern
part of the country against their northern compatriots, it potentially sets the
people against their lawmakers from the concerned constituencies and sets the
lawmakers against themselves. This manner of reprehensible mischief has no
place in a democracy. We hereby demand from Mr. Amaechi a publicly tendered
apology if he is not able to show evidence that the Lagos-Calabar road project
was included in the budget. Otherwise, he should resign forthwith,’’ Sen. Sabi
said.