2018 budget: Muslim group attacks Ekweremadu, Ben Bruce, others

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called out the Deputy Senate
President, Ike Ekweremadu and South South senators in the National
Assembly, for allegedly conspiring against President Muhammdu Buhari.

The group wondered why the budget allocated to the construction of
Second Niger Bridge and that of construction of the Terminal Building
of Enugu Airport were slashed under the nose of the Deputy Senate
President without the lawmaker uttering a word.


While signing the 2018 appropriation bill into law yesterday, at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari had expressed concerns that it would
be difficult for the purpose of the 2018 budget to be achieved due to
some changes made by the National Assembly.

But in a press release signed by MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq
Akintola, the group also expressed surprise that the federal lawmakers
from the South South region allowed the budget for the Niger Delta
University to be slashed from N5 billion to N3.4 billion, adding that
Senator Ben Bruce did not stand against the "dehumanization."
The group insisted that members of the National Assembly were out to
to drag the masses on the floor.

MURIC's statement reads in part, "Wonders will never end. Otherwise
where was the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu when the
budget for the Terminal Building of Enugu Airport was cut from 2
billion Naira to 500 million Naira? Is he not from Enugu State?

"Can the Igbo people still say that Buhari does not like them? The
wind has blown. We have seen the ruff of the hen.

"Where were all the senators from the South South when the budget for
the Niger Delta University was being slashed from N5 billion to N3.4
billion?

"Et tuSenator Ben Bruce, did you also support this dehumanization? No,
it cannot be. It must have been done in your absence, perhaps during
the recording of one of your famous interventions.

"Why are our politicians determined to drag the masses on the floor
and trample upon them as they lie face-down? What kind of wickedness
and insensitivity is this? Who did this to Nigeria?"