. Over Exclusion Of Funds For Legislature
IHIM |
The Imo State House of Assembly has rejected
Governor Rochas Okorocha’s 2015 Supplementary Budget proposal.
The House in a unanimous decision out- rightly
rejected the budget on the basis that it did not accommodate the bills of the
Legislative arm of government.
The Budget was rejected after it was submitted by
the House Committee Chairman on Appropriation headed by Hon Odunze,
representing Orlu State Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly.
The House wondered why other arms of government such
as the Executive and the Judiciary will be accommodated by the Budget only for
the legislature to be excluded.
Majority Leader of the House, Hon Lugard Osuji said
the committee did not carry out an acceptable job.
The rejection of the Budget has put the
House members on the spotlight as majority of the Imo citizenry have severally lamented
that the present set of Assembly members are mere appendages of the Executive.
The House had last month passed a vote of
confidence on the State Governor, a move which attracted umbrage from Imolites
at a time the State government sacked 3,000 workers from the State workforce.
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