According to the committee, the ministry proposed to draw over N42 billion for the firm from its vote in this year’s budget.
Trouble started when Industry, Trade & Investment the Minister Okechukwu Enelamah appeared before the committee to defend his ministry’s 2019 Budget. At the end of the presentation, Committee Chairman Senator Sabo Mohammed, referred him to item 2 on page 7 of the booklet which has N42.091 billion budgetary allocation for Nigeria Special Economic Zone Company not known to be one of the 17 agencies under the ministry.
He said: “One of the areas that this government has focused on is infrastructure. The second area is industrialization and the two have something in common.
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