The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned Federal Executive Council’s approval of $1bn to procure military equipment to fight insurgency, without recourse to the National Assembly. The party noted this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday in Abuja. The PDP urged the National Assembly to commence appropriate constitutional legislative actions against the government for unilaterally approving the release of the fund without allowing application of legislative instrument. It expressed concerns that the same administration that claimed to have technically defeated the insurgents still approved such amount to fight insurgency. “Democracy thrives on constitutional processes of separation of powers, due diligence and transparency and not on totalitarian tendencies.

Source: Punch April 05, 2018 18:45 UTC