Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole would today submit a new version of the 2016 budget of his ministry to the senate over alleged padding of the fiscal document.
This development came up few days after reports that some top federal civil servants may be sanctioned over issues relating to padding of the 2016 budget.
Adewole yesterday told members of the Senate Committee on Health during its budget defence that the original budget of his ministry has been “distorted and strange figures smuggled in.”
He asked the committee to discard the earlier budget before it and await a new one to be re-submitted today which he said would reflect the programmes of the health sector in 2016.
According to him, there were some issues on which conclusion had not been reached by the ministry and yet allocations had been made to them without the ministry’s knowledge.
In his response, the chairman of the committee, Senator Olanrewaju Tejuoso said following the submission of the minister, the budget before the committee was not the proposal of the ministry.
