 Now the Senate has berated the executive arm of government over the rise and increment in the recurrent expenditure and overhead in the annual national budget, despite the embargo placed on employment by President Mohammed al-Buhari. The red chamber made the observation following these submissions by the chairman of the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission, Iqbunta, while defending his agency's 2021 budget before the Senate Committee on Establishment. The inability of Iqbunta to tell the Committee the total amount of salaries in wages the federal government paid its workforce yearly angered many members of the Committee. They wondered why recurrent expenditure in the yearly budget was not decreasing on the count of the embargo placed on employment and retirement at the various agencies. News updates