Stop Wasting Funds on Cars, Utensils, They Don’t Expire, El-Rufai Tells Tinubu’s Minister

By Adeola Omotola Last updated Dec 21, 2024

A member of the House of Representatives representing Kaduna North Federal Constituency, Mr. Bello El-Rufai has chided the ministers and directors of agencies to stop wasting resources and funds on cars, utensils and other materials that do not expire.

Online Parrot News had reported that President Bola Tinubu has presented the 2025 appropriation bill to the National Assembly and it has passed the first two readings. But Mr. El-Rufai, a critic of the administration of Tinubu said that it is wrong to always put vehicles and utensils in the budget every year when they don’t expire.

“We cannot continue to allow these budget allocations for MDAs to be spent on vehicles that do not expire,” El-Rufai stated.

The federal lawmaker lamented that the country budgets for vehicles, utensils every year and that such is a loophole that should be blocked. He added that since vehicles were purchased in the last budget, it’s not necessary to buy more.

“Sir, the recurrent issue is in every budget, even a young person like myself. We budget for vehicles every year. We budget for utensils every year. So what I would like us to do, sir, to open more revenues or block loopholes, is to look at all these ministries that are bringing their budgets. If they bought vehicles last year, please, they should just relax now.”

“These are the little things, Mr Speaker, that if unless we start looking at them, the loopholes we talk about will not come out. I want to thank the leadership for sessions like this and other experienced members. It’s a learning opportunity. But on this, the recent reports, sir, should be implemented,” he said.

According to him, “The second and most important thing to me, since I was, well, I’m still a young man, since I was a boy, budgets every year come with new computers, new furniture.

“So I urge the chairman. I I’m honored, sir, that I chair a committee that has CBN, but my budget is not on here. But committee chairman that are more experienced than myself should look into this. Nigerians are tired of every agency buying fork and knife every year. We And I say,” Bello added.