By Palladium
Commentators have excoriated some provisions of the 2024 budgetary estimates. They are right to identify a mismatch between some provisions in the budget, such as the vice president’s lodge, and the prudence the administration claims to be pursuing at an awful period of global economic distress.
They are also right to fear that the philosophy underpinning the administration seems to be at variance with the liberalism of the budget. The National Assembly may in the end put a leash on some of the jarring inconsistencies in the budget and thus help shore up the image of the administration.
It is uncertain the president sat through the conception of the entire budget nor digested its provisions, particularly the breakdown.
Had he resolved the inconsistencies in his kitchen cabinet and assigned a brilliant and trusted aides philosophically equipped to oversee delicate matters, they would have spotted the budgetary anomalies and reduced them to the barest minimum. President Tinubu has tried to give the impression that his administration would be transcendental in many respects.
He must acknowledge that his budget has not done substantial justice to his stratospheric dreams.
• Culled from The Natiön Newspaper On Sunday
