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A fiscal analyst, Kalu Aja, has knocked the Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, implicit the arguable N1 cardinal allocation successful the 2026 fund for churches successful his constituency.
Recall that the National Assembly and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu person travel nether occurrence implicit arguable allocations successful the 2026 budget.
Specifically, it was reported that N1 cardinal was allocated to churches and mosques successful the 2026 budget.
Kalu, successful his defence, clarified that the fund, which stood astatine N750 cardinal aft the removal of Value Added Tax, VAT, is meant for 130 churches, with N6 cardinal allocated to each church for younker reorientation and societal enactment programmes.
Reacting successful a connection posted connected X on Wednesday, Aja said the allocation should person gone to schools, hospitals, and electrification projects alternatively than churches.
According to him, the Deputy Speaker lacks a developmental mindset.
“He WASTED it connected buying ‘evangelical’ instruments for churches, giving N5m per church. Not to schools oregon hospitals owned by churches, but to bargain microphones and speakers for the ‘yoot’.
“N1 cardinal volition enactment moving electrify each the schools and hospitals successful his LGA ooh, but horseman don’t hav...
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