Fisayo Falodi and Gbenro Adeoye
Rights activists on Friday described the N4bn
proposed for Aso Rock clinic and N800m for a
website in the 2016 budget as embarrassing and
abnormal.
The activists claimed that the proposals were
the direct opposite of President Muhammadu
Buhari’s change mantra.
President, Rights Monitoring Group and Country
Director, Centre on Convention for Democratic
Integrity, Mr. Femi Aduwo, said proposing such a
huge amount for Aso Rock clinic and website
indicated that the President’s change mantra
was just by name and not by action.
He said, “If N4bn is proposed for Aso Rock clinic
in a year and the facility is meant for the Very
Important People, I want to believe that the VIPs
go beyond the President and the Vice-President.
For example, if you have an equipped clinic in
Aso Rock, all the former presidents, former
ministers and former governors can go there for
medical checkup, but as it were today, we know
that all the former presidents and former
governors don’t use Aso Rock clinic. This is an
Aso Rock clinic that could not take care of
former President Umaru Yar’Adua when he was
sick.
“So, if you propose N4bn to be spent and there
are elements of trust and transparency in the
spending, there is no problem with that, but if
you propose N10 for the project and the money
is looted or stolen, we will still go back to square
one.
Aduwo added that it was shameful that N800m
was proposed for a website in this modern era,
when the website of the United States President,
Barack Obama, cost less than $1m.
Another activist and lawyer, Mr. Ebun
Adegboruwa, urged Nigerians to join him to
persuade the President to reduce the budget for
the Aso Rock clinic and the website.
While recalling that Nigerians were angry when
former President Goodluck Jonathan budgeted
N1bn for feeding in 2014, Adegboruwa asked
Buhari to be a “shining example of a Spartan
leader who is not interested in living a life of
luxury at the expense of the people he was
elected to govern. He should let the charity begin
at home.”
He said, “There is a consensus that the budget
is not that of change expected from the
President. The change means you don’t want to
do things the way they were used to be done.
“Though I accept the fact that the Office of the
President deserves all the glamour and the state
of the art equipment, the amount budgeted for
Aso Rock renovation, for website, for Aso Rock
clinic, for maintenance of generator is becoming
like a scandal to us as a nation. This is very bad
and I urge the President to scale down the items
of luxury; the items that have no explanation.
“The President has no record of any medical
illness. When the campaign was on and it was
alleged that he had health challenges, he denied
it flatly. So, who is going to use the N4bn Aso
Rock clinic? The vice-president and his wife are
hale and hearty. So, who is going to use the
facility? This is not a good example at all. I
believe that the President will listen to the cry of
Nigerians and scale down the budget.”
The Executive Chairman, Coalition Against
Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, said some
of the proposals in the budget were
embarrassing.
Adeniran said some Nigerians, who had expected
Buhari’s government to be prudent, would be
disappointed by the proposals, which he
considered as outrageous.
He said, “The costs of many items in the budget
are very outrageous and it is very embarrassing
that a government that claims to be prudent in
spending is allocating so much money to some
little items.
“If one ministry plans to upgrade its website for
as much as N800m, then how much would all
the federal ministries upgrade their websites or
set up new ones?
“This is a country that is asking average
Nigerians to tighten their belts; why should it be
that it is at the level of the people that we
tighten our belts while those in authorities will be
losing theirs? It is uncalled for.”

Bullhari again.. this man is not making changes o..

Budget of change.. The more you look, the less you see.. Well, am still giving them time.. They have 2 and half years plus to fulfill all their promises..


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[b]Dear Dr Goodluck Jonathan. Sir, while you have gone. 1.) Those who accused you of cluelessnesss are today taking selfies at the Auto plants and with Made in Nigeria vehicles a dividend of your auto policy. 2.) Those who insulted you and insisted that the Petroleum subsidy program was a scam just approved a 0.5 Trillion naira subsidy scam payment. 3.) The Professor who claimed your successor will definitely bring fuel pump to = N40 have suddenly gone deaf and dumb while fuel prize is currently cruising around 600 naira in some cities. 4.) Those who claimed you were heading to Chad to plan more attacks on us were the first to visit Chad after you left. 5.) Your agricultural policies which yielded a lot of dividend is the next achievement your adversaries are planning to appropriate to themselves. 6.) When the Treasury Single Account was been hailed as a super invention they concealed your name and in scripted theirs, immediately it had little issues they dumped it on you, tomorrow they will claim IPPIS. 7.) They said you lacked the political will to fight insurgency yet most if not all the LGA'S you reclaimed and handed over to them have been lost with unimaginable loss of lives. 8.) Those who claimed the presidential Air fleet was too large and a complete waste of resources have spent over 5 billion naira in just 6 months fuelling the fleet and junketing from one continent to another without any thing to show for it. 8.) You said your ambition did not worth the blood of a single Nigerian You proved it by your actions. 9.) The first female Cadets of the NDA are grateful. 10.) The First set of students from the 11 new federal universities who are now in 400 level are grateful. 11.) The first Sets of students from the University of Petroleum are grateful. 12.) The First sets of Nigerian Pilots trained abroad are Grateful. 13.) The Recipients of the Presidential scholarship scheme for first class students which was recently suspended by our change agents are grateful 14.) The recipients of the Youwwin programme and the Youwwin for women are grateful 15.);The beneficiaries of the innovation in fertiliser distribution will never forget you 16.) The 1000 Beneficiaries of the TETFUND scholarships for Lecturers in Nigerian Universities are grateful 17.) The generations that will access information via the freedom of information act (FOI) will see your signature 18.) The Millions of Almajiri pupils across Nigeria who benefited from you milk of kindness will live to testify it. 19.) Those who ply the Abuja - Lokoja Benin road will remain thankful 20.) NYSC Members who will benefit and those who have benefited from the increased of allowances from =N= 8216 to =N= 19800 are grateful. 21.) those who benefited from 6000 minimum wage to 18000 minimum wage will forever remain grateful May heaven and History be kind to you today and Always You are Still the Best President so far. God bless GEJ.[/b]

When are we going to get there? Why do our leaders always betray us? Buhari of all people? buhari is just like nigerian police(thief running after thief)

i de come

Saint buhari. Is showing us that a man in power may not resist the urge to use it.

Budget of shame. Jonathan will be smiling at APC zomb....

I dare say, Buhari is not prepared for any change from bad to good, he is not capable of fixing our economy and he is not set to fight corruption.

We have been deceived.

May God forgive all of you who foisted Buhari of u by your votes.

Come join our winning team Apc. we are on Champagne and food budget of 2 billion with extra 40 billion as media entertainment. we party all year round and bigger than USA steel industry

Na gold tablet go cure their sickness for Aso-rock hospital

As for the website, na E-gold dem go use create am