“You’re on international TV, the world is watching you” – Buhari tells booing lawmakers during budget presentation

President Muhammadu Buhari was interrupted with boos and some cheers as he presented the 2019 appropriation bill to the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday.

In a move to calm aggrieved lawmakers who booed him during his speech at the presentation, President Buhari said the whole world was watching.

While some lawmakers stood up to give the President a clap, some others heckled him shouting, ‘Lies, propaganda’.

One of them called Buhari, ‘grass cutter’ in reference to the scandal which the last Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, was enmeshed.

When the President was reeling out the achievements of his administration in the area of fighting corruption, some lawmakers shouted him down, saying, ‘propaganda, which corruption are you fighting’? ‘Grass cutter’

At first, Buhari tried to maintain his composure but the aggrieved lawmakers continued interjecting him.

At that point he said, “May I appeal to the honourable members that you’re on international TV, the world is watching us… we’re supposed to be above this.”

But rather than reason with the president, the angry lawmakers continued heckling him.