Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has responded to the $1billion withdrawn from the Excess Crude Account to battle against Insurgency in the North East.
Bukola Saraki said the All Progressives Congress, APC-drove central government can not just withdraw that kind of cash without following due process.
Saraki stated this during the senate plenary session on Thursday, after Ike Ekeweremadu, assistant senate president,informed the Senate that they should discuss about the $1 billion intended to be cashed out from the Excess Crude Account.
Ekweremadu needed to know why the issue was not recorded on the request paper.
Representative of Imo East, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who had on Wednesday drawn the consideration of the senate to the issue, was, in any case, missing when Ekweremadu raised the issue on the floor of the red chamber on Thursday.
Reacting, Saraki clarified that the movement would not be taken on the grounds that Anyanwu was nowhere to be found.
Saraki stated, "As should be obvious, he isn't here. Along these lines, we need to put it down. Next administrative day is the point at which we continue. It would be the principal thing on the request paper.
"We can't take it when the individual isn't here and it's a vital movement that should be conveyed exceptionally well.
"It can't be assigned. We would take it. I guarantee you that we would take it. our gathering does not do things like that; we would not burn through cash without following due process.
"I am guaranteeing you that the cash would not be spent until the point that we return and open deliberation on it"
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