Budget Scandal: Top Civil Servants May Be Fired For Sabotaging President Buhari’s Budget

SaharaReporters has learned that the
Muhammadu Buhari administration was
considering firing several top civil servants
who acted in various ways to sabotage or
undermine the government’s efforts to
produce budget proposals that reflected
financial prudence and frugality. Two top
administration sources told our
correspondent that “bureaucratic resistance
and entrenched systemic corrupt practices
dogged every move by the Presidency during
the preparation of the 2016 budget,” adding
that Mr. Buhari had ordered that culpable
bureaucrats be identified, fired or demoted