Padded Budget: So embarrassed. Flushes out 184 Budget Officials

 

No fewer than 184 top  budget officials were flushed out of budget duties and sent to  establishments that have little or nothing to do with budget, as a  punishment for their roles in padding this year’s fiscal document, now  before the National Assembly.  A top official in the Budget office confirmed that 22 top officers from  the Budget Office of the Federation were affected in the mass  deployment.  


The rest were moved away from budget-related duties in other Ministries,  Departments and Agencies, MDAs.  Vanguard learnt that out of the 22 top officials indicted in the budget  office, four were directors on Level 17, six were deputy directors while  12 were Assistant directors.  As the affected officials were moved from their posts in the Budget  Office, 14 other directors said to have been ‘tested’ have been  redeployed to the same office with immediate effect. 

The order to remove the tainted officials from their previous posts to  other duties, was conveyed to the affected offices by the Office of the  Head of Service of the Federation, according to finding by Vanguard.  All the affected officers, according to the directive, are to report in  their new locations on or before the close of work today.