Dogara made the comments on Friday, April 6, while closing a retreat for management staff of the National Assembly in Kaduna.
The Speaker was reacting to a call by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for the legislature to make its budget public.
“I
will like to challenge him (El-Rufai) to champion this cause for
transparency in the budgetary process from the National Assembly to
other arms of government. The Judiciary first,” Dogara said.
“We
want to see clearly how Chief Executives of States... how they are
paid. What do they spend monthly as security votes, and if they can
publish what happens to local government funds under their
jurisdictions. That will help our discussion going forward.
“When,
for instance, public discussions on funding of the legislature are
being made, the entire bureaucracy is often completely discountenanced,
neither is any consideration given to the fact that this is a special
bureaucracy saddled with a multitude of ‘masters’ who must be equally
served in addition to service to the nation,” he added.
Dogara
said further that the Nigeria Civil Service will begin to record
progress when it breaks away from its usual tradition to new ways of
carrying out its functions and administration.
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