ThisDay· 1h ago· 1 min read
By Tanimu Yakubu
I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ERROR
Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno has argued that the Executive’s failure to spend the budget as appropriated amounts to a breach of law sufficiently grave to justify impeachment. The concern is understandable. Citizens expect budgets to produce roads, hospitals, schools, security and other public services. Whenever appropriated funds appear not to translate into visible public benefits, suspicion naturally follows. In every democracy, Parliament is entitled to ask why money voted by the representatives of the people has not produced the results that those representatives intended.
The concern rests on an incorrect assumption. The argument proceeds as though an Appropriation Act creates not merely the authority to spend but a legal obligation to spend every sum appropriated. Once that assumption is accepted, every departure from complete…
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