The senator representing Cross River North, Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, has said that some senior senators received N500 million each from the 2024 budget.
Jarigbe made this disclosure during a plenary session on Tuesday in the Red Chamber in Abuja.
The revelation is coming after Senator Abdul Ningi accused the Senate of Budget Padding during an interview with BBC Hausa last week.
Ningi alleged that the senate added an extra N3.7 trillion to the initial budget.
Reacting to the development, the Cross River senator said all senators are guilty of such practice, alleging that some senior senators received N500 million each from the 2024 appropriation bill.
“If we want to go into this issue, all of us are culpable. Some senators here, so called senior senators got N500 million each.
“I am a ranking senator. I didn’t get. Did I go to the press? We don’t have to go into those issues,” he said.
