The minister said the budget was anchored on $38 per barrel of oil benchmark, adding that the projection was also based on 2.2 million barrels of crude per day production
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Senator Udoma was particularly pleased that the Legislature kept the budget within the amount proposed by the Executive, especially as the fiscal deficit was not increased
The Ministers of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo-Udoma, Finance, Kemi Adeosun, Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State and Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, told state House Correspondents that all the government tiers had resolved to look at immediate ways of increasing their revenues
According to the statement, Udo-Udoma gave the commendation when the Managing Director of the company, Babs Omotowa, and his management team visit the minister
In the redeployment, which has affected 184 senior staff service-wide, four Directors, six Deputy Directors and 12 Assistant Directors have been posted out of the Budget Office, while 14 senior staff have been redeployed from other MDAs to inject new life into the Budget Office
The governor, who maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari lacked the required mental capacity to rescue the country from the present economic problems, added that it was an insult for a Federal Government that appeared to be clueless to be preaching its unworkable policies to other tiers of government