A civil society organization, Conscience Nigeria, has described allegations of corruption against the House of Representatives Committee on Finance and Federal Inland Revenue (FIR)’as laughable.
In a statement issued by the groups secretary, Comrade Hussein Muhammad, on Sunday, Conscience Nigeria said the allegation made by Senator Dino Melaye-led Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) on the budgeting system in Nigeria is pre-emptive.
“As a patriotic, decent and responsible civil society organization, we have painstakingly studied the statement and observed deliberate inaccuracies against the House Committee on Finance in the House of Representatives and Federal Inland Revenue Service(FIRS).
“We have invariably concluded that rather than make any sense, the statement merely succeeded in exposing ignorance of budget passage in the National Assembly.
“The budget in question, submitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Finance by the Federal Inland Revenue Service has yet to be approved, which means a critical review of the budget is currently going on by the House committee as is the usual practice in the past as well,” the statement read.
The group said it has always monitored the strict compliance of the House Committee on Finance to budgetary processes and has no doubt as to the Committee’s sense of patriotism and fairness.
