The Senate on Thursday called on President Bola Tinubu to sack any head of Ministries, Departments and Agencies who refuse to attend ongoing interactive sessions on projections made in the 2024–2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.
In his speech at the opening of the interactive session jointly organised by Senate Committees on Finance, Appropriations, National Planning, and Local and Foreign Debts, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said any head of an agency who refuses to attend the session should be sacked by the President.
The PUNCH documents One of the financial activities in parliament that take place before the President presents the budget to the National Assembly is the MTEF/FSP interactive sessions.
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“If you don’t plan how to succeed, then you have planned to fail,” asserted Akpabio. I hereby remind our committee that everyone who is concerned about President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s success, be it as a serious appointee or as the head of any agency, should be present.
The President should reconsider appointing any head of agency that sends a representative here since they are not a serious person.
“It is the truth, not a threat. I even canceled my appointment to attend my party’s final rally in Owerri today, along with all other commitments I had to fulfill in order to attend and help us strategize how to win.