Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State
hehehehehe....... Governor Nasir El-Rufai has released details of his security votes after he was challenged by Speaker Yakubu Dogara.
The Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has released details of
his security vote expenditure after he was challenged by the speaker of
the House of Representaives, Yakubu Dogara.
Dogara had at the closing ceremony of a retreat for the management
of the National Assembly in Kaduna on Friday challenged El-Rufai and
other state Governors to publish details of their security votes after
they had accused the National Assembly of aiding corruption by its
failure to publish their internal budget.
“I will like to challenge him (El-Rufai) to champion this cause
for transparency in the budgetary process from the National Assembly to
other arms of government beginning with the judiciary.
“What do they spend monthly as security votes, and if they can
publish what happens to local government funds under their
jurisdictions, that will help our discussion going forward.” Dogara said.
Governor El-Rufai has now fulfilled his own part and has now thrown
the challenge back at Dogara to publish the budget of the National
Assembly.
Read below the details of Kaduna security vote pay slip:
Our attention has been drawn to a challenge by Hon. Yakubu Dogara,
Speaker of the House of Representatives, calling on Kaduna State to make
public its Security Votes and Local Government expenditure. This
challenge was thrown as a response to Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s request
to the National Assembly (NASS) to provide further details on the opaque
N115 billion (One Hundred and Fifteen Billion Naira) 2016 NASS budget.
Malam Nasir El-Rufai welcomes this challenge as a necessary step to
improve and strengthen our democracy and would like to respond as
follows:
The budgets of all state governments in Nigeria are detailed out and presented at least under the headings of:
a. personnel cost
b. overhead, and
c. capital expenditure
This is unlike the budget of the National Assembly which is a
single line item of over N100 billion that divulges zero information or
details. NASS can at least break down its own single line budget into
the hundreds of line items that are detailed in every state government
budget in Nigeria. It is disingenuous to respond to every request for
transparency by casting aspersions.
On our part, the Kaduna State government has consistently made
public all its budget details. In 2016, in an unprecedented step, the
State published not only its own budget, but also that of all the 23
Local Government Councils online on the www.openkaduna.com.ngwebsite.
The Local Government budgets provide details of the recurrent and
capital spending of every single LG in a transparent manner. The
proposed 2017 LG Budgets, currently before the State Assembly, are also
already online on the same website, and on www.kdsg.gov.ng.Approved
State Budgets 2016-2017 can be found on
http://openkaduna.com.ng/Budget/approved-budget. We invite the Right
Honourable Speaker to download and peruse at his pleasure.
As regards Kaduna State Security Votes, once again, if the
Honourable Speaker had run an online search he would have discovered the
details of our spending priorities on security as a State Government.
As our KadunaComprehensive Security Architecture (KADCoSA) outlines, the
State is directing security spending on four pillars; Justice,
Technology, Community Engagement and Support to Security Agencies. The
2017 budget details specific amounts: N1.5bn (one and half billion
naira) for the Procurement & Installation of CCTV Cameras for
Monitoring and Surveillancetowards Reducing Criminal Activities within
the Metropolis.
b. N193m (one hundred and ninety-three million naira) for
Procurement of Geo-position Interceptor and location of GSM UMTS System
to Check the Trends andIntercept/locate kidnappers’ GSM calls.
c. N265m (two hundred and sixty-five million naira) for the
Procurement of Drones/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to identify
locations of armed bandits in our Forest Reserves across the state and
the Establishment of a Forensic Laboratory to assist in determining
substantial evidence in cases that otherwise proved difficult in the
past.
d. In addition, N2.6bn (two billion and six hundred million naira)
is allocated in 2017 to support the network of federal Security Agencies
in Kaduna with communications, logistics and materiel.
Details of actual spending in 2015 for security and indeed every
line item in the State budgets are also publicly available via the
annual report of the Accountant-General accessible on www.kdsg.gov.ng.
The 2015 accounts of the Kaduna State Government have been audited,
and the audit summary published in major newspapers and on the state
website on 21st June 2016. The Accountant-General’s report for 2016 has
been finalized and its audit is ongoing and will be published as usual.
The audited state government accounts can also be found on
http://openkaduna.com.ng/Budget/audited.
The Kaduna State government will continue to remain transparent and
open in all its finances. That is what we have promised to all our
people and that is what our party, the APC and our President stand for.
Malam Nasir El-Rufai is today making publicly available his pay-slip as
Governor of Kaduna State. In February 2017, the Kaduna State Government
paid the Governor a net salary of N470,521.74, with the following
details:
Income
Deductions
Basic Salary
N185,308.75
Hardship Allowance
N370,617.50
Gross Pay
N555,926.25
PAYE
N85,404.51
Total Deduction
N85,401.51
Net Pay
N470,521.74
The amount may appear puny but it reflects what the Revenue
Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission approved as the salary and
allowances of every State Governor adjusted to reflect provision
in-kind of accommodation and transportation.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai would like to reiterate his call for the
NASS leadership to do the same and disclose the details of the National
Assembly budget, and the salaries and allowances of its leadership.
The call to #OpenNASSis not a personal one. It is one which the
leadership of the National Assembly owes to all Nigerians. It is
therefore disingenuous for the Speaker to use State Government budgets
as the excuse for the opacity of the NASS budget. In 2016, the NASS
budget for its 469 members was larger than thecapital budget of Kaduna
State, with close to 10 million inhabitants. It is also larger than the
entire budget of several Nigerian States. Indeed, over the past ten
years from 2008, the NASS as an institution has cost the country over a
trillion naira without any detail on how this amount was allocated and
spent.
There is no state government in Nigeria with a budget nearly as
opaque as that of NASS. In March 2016, this National Assembly, led by
its Chairman, promised to provide a detailed breakdown of the National
Assembly budget. Nigerians are waiting.
Signed
Samuel Aruwan
Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to the Governor of Kaduna State
10th April 2017.
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