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Don’t Slash My Budget – Lai Mohammed Begs Lawmakers
The Minister of Info, Tradition and Tourism, Lai Mohammed, has pleaded with the Home of Representatives Committee on Info, Nationwide Orientation, Ethics and Values to not lower the ministry’s funds proposal.
Mr Mohammed, together with some heads of businesses below the ministry, had appeared earlier than the committee on Monday to defend the propaganda funds.
“My prayer is that please don’t cut back from what’s offered. Don’t contact my funds as a result of you should have no ethical justification for accusing the manager of giving me small,” he mentioned.
In keeping with him, when he met his counterpart in China and requested how a lot their funds for data was, the Chinese language mentioned it was nationwide safety.
Members of the committee additionally expressed issues over underfunding of the ministry.
“I don’t know why the Ministry of Info is being underfunded. And I see some state ministries being funded greater than an entire federal ministry.
“We have to make an official report on this matter to the Home. If we don’t want the companies of the ministry of data once more we must always shut it,” the chairman of the committee, Olusegun Odebunmi, mentioned.
Mr Odebunmi mentioned the funds of the monitoring unit of the Ministry of Sports activities alone was greater than the knowledge ministry and pledged to confront the manager arm on the matter.
He urged Nigerians, exhausting hit by the impact of Mr Mohammed’s propaganda over time, to rally assist for the ministry, pledging that relatively than take away a penny from the funds proposal, the Home will add to it.
(NAN)
