Since Ben Ayade, the Cross River State Governor presented the N1.1 trillion 2020 budget christened Budget of Olimpotic Meristemasis to the state House of Assembly for approval on Thursday, he has courted another controversy to himself due to the use of the jaw-breaking word.
Ayade, a Microbiologist professor who recently sacked some state counsels in the state Ministry of Justice recently sent three names as Commissioners-designate to the state House of Assembly for confirmation, an action that has drawn another flak to him.
A Senator, who has been on overseas’ holidays started thumping his chest for the vocabulary, has thrown many people in the state even outside into a bemused state on the meaning and relevance of the budgetary tag.
Philip Obin (@PhilipObin), tweeted on Friday that 18 professors of the two universities in Cross River would research to unravel next year’s budget terminology.
Though Obin, a Technical Assistant (New Media), Office of the Vice President, said the opinion was his, appeared to have mocked the use of the tongue-twisting word.
Governor Ayade who is in the habit of using jaw-breaking words to tag his yearly budget proposals appears to have difficulty in raking sufficient funds to implement the budgetary provisions.
For instance, the Governor daubed the 2016 Budget of Deep Vision. In 2017, Ayade christened its Budget of Infinite Transposition. In 2018, he called it Kinetic Crystallization while in 2019, the Governor tagged its Budget of Quabalistic Densification.
In 2019, he presented a budget proposal of N1.043 trillion, yet the state enjoys a paltry monthly allocation from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC.
A cursory look shows that Cross River collected N2.7 billion in May and N4.8 billion in August 2019 from the FAAC while the Internally Generated Revenue of the state stands between N1.5 billion and N3.5 billion monthly as at January this year, according to The Nation.
