Why 2016 budget cannot be passed. Pickthegist here...

– The revelations of the fraudulent and incompetently prepared 2016 national budget is the latest controversy rocking the nation
– The National Assembly claims the 2016 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari is full of mistakes, inconsistencies and other anomalies

– At the beginning of the year, that same budget had been declared ‘missing’ and now its passage has been postponed indefinitely
– As controversy continues to trail the budget, the anti-corruption fight is still ongoing and the EFCC is making more arrests
Today, February 10, major Nigerian dailies are focused on various issues such as the postponement of the passage of the 2016 budget, EFCC arrests and terror alert at the presidential villa.

On the front page of Vanguard is ‘Budget 2016 full of errors, can’t be passed – NASS’.
Vanguard front page, February 10, 2016
The two arms of the National Assembly, the Senate and House of Assembly said yesterday, that the 2016 budget could not be passed on February 25 as earlier promised because it was full of errors.

According to Senator Danjuma Goje, the chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, and his House of Representatives counterpart, Jibrin Abdulmumin, said passing the budget will be impossible because of the many errors.

Abdulmumin said the two committees would have to do a proper clean up of the budget.
The Guardian reports that the confusion surrounding the budget 2016 is being compounded by the inability of top government officials, including permanent secretaries, who are accounting officers in federal ministries, to offer acceptable explanations to lawmakers at budget defen