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Budget Padding: We Have Powers To Alter National Budget – Dogara
So, the entire architecture of presidential democracy is that it should run on the basis of consensus and convention between the parliament and the executive.
“And when there is disagreement between the executive and the parliament, the framers of the Constitution were smart enough to say look, our hope is in the representatives of the people and not in the executive, so the parliament can even go along.
In the case of the budget, for instance, if it were the case that parliament disagrees with the executive on the budget, the worst the executive can do is to say they will not sign and after 30 days, if we can muster two-thirds.
And it doesn’t have to be two-thirds of the entire membership, once the quorum is formed, two-third of the members sitting and voting, we can override the veto of the President and pass it into law.
The only other option open to the executive is to say because we didn’t assent to this, this is the budget of the parliament, so we will not implement.
But the point is that all of them, including us, are under an oath to faithfully execute the laws of this land.
Then the question that will follow is if this a law of the land and the answer is yes.
We are men of honour whether legislators or executive are bound by the oath of office to faithfully execute that law and in the case of the executive, if it is not done, all of us know the very consequences.
I don’t want to call it by its name, we know the consequences. So in his kind of government, the winner is obvious. So I don’t think we should bother ourselves belaboring this issue.
We all know where these powers are and under our watch, there is no way this House will be a rubber stamp of any executive .
Budgets are priorities of the government because we are representatives of the people .
We can say even though these are priorities of the government, based on our job of representation, these are not the priorities of the people and we can refuse to fund them.
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