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BREAKING (2024 Budget): Ranking Senators Got N500m Each – Senator Jarigbe Makes Shocking Revelation

Senator Jarigbe has revealed that ranking senators got the sum of N500m each.

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Senator Jarigbe has revealed that ranking senators got the sum of N500m each.

Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe representing Cross River North has revealed that some senior senators received the total of N500 million each from the 2024 budget.

VerseNews reports that the federal lawmaker Jarigbe made this disclosure during a plenary session on Tuesday in the Red Chamber in Abuja.

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This revelation is coming on the heel of the ongoing controversy of an allegations of budget padding made by Senator Abdul Ningi in an interview with BBC Hausa.

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Ningi had earlier accused the Senate of paddling the 2024 budget, saying the National Assembly added an extra N3.7 billion to the initial budget.

Reacting to the development, the Cross River lawmaker said all senators are guilty of such practice, alleging that some senior senators received N500 million each from the 2024 appropriation bill.

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“If we want to go into this issue, all of us are culpable. Some senators here, so called senior senators got N500 million each. I am a ranking senator. I didn’t get. Did I go to the press? We don’t have to go into those issues,” he said.

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Meanwhile, the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, had the senator’s mic muted amid his speech.

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