Daniel Bwala, a legal practitioner and public affairs analyst, served as spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council in the 2023 general election. In this interview with, he shares his thoughts on the budget padding scandal rocking the national assembly and other issues of national interest. TheCable: The national assembly is currently enmeshed in a budget padding scandal. Abdul Ningi, the lawmaker who raised the alarm, alleged that the N28.
7 trillion 2024 budget being implemented by President Bola Tinubu was done underground, with an added sum of N3 trillion. What do you make of this at a time when Nigerians are going through tough times?Budget padding means altering the budget, either by adding or subtracting. Doing that is not illegal. If you look at the United States of America, when George W