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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Do you approve of President Olusegun Obasanjo's handling of Nigeria's economy? Yes No Indifferent View results 2005 Budget: Minister Gets Ultimatum to Defend Appropriation From Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja, 11.18.2004 Senate Committee Chair-man on Agriculture, Sena-tor Bode Olowoporoku, yesterday handed down a 24-hour ultimatum to the Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Adamu Bello, to appear before his committee to defend the ministry's 2005 Budget or incur the wrath of the Senate. Adamu's absence forced the Committee to abort its meeting yesterday as the members took their turns to disparage what they termed the Minsiter's "disregard" for the committee. An enraged Olowoporoku, who refused to heed the pleas of the Minister of State, Bamidele Dada's explanation that his boss travelled for Lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia, said, "we are not happy that the Minsiter is always absent at any meeting to which the committee had invited him. "This is the second time. Last year too, he was absent from this type of budget defence meeting. His absence indicates disregard for the committee which has the power to oversee budgetary appropriations for his ministry," Olowoporoku asserted. According to him, "the President would not have granted leave to the Minister at this period of budget preparations. We are calling the attention of the Presidency to this. It is an act of indiscipline. This is the way I look at it," he said. In handing down a 24-hour ultimatum for the Minister to come and defend the Ministry's budget, Olowopo-roku said "if he (Adamu) failed to appear again, the nation would deal with him." But Dada told newsmen that the the disposition of the committee "has nothing to do with the work of the Ministry. let us put personal conflicts aside and move ahead with the national assignement by moving agriculture forward for this country and fulfil our needs."        REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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