viktor01:
Someone would have to take the blame as usual, only that it is going to be the innocent ones.

SylarsMcQuins:
OMG!!!!!
Bubu the confused one
Keep on sacking everyone till no one agrees to work with you anymore.

lookandlaff:


what exactly do you think the job of the budget office is? why do we have so many people employed in the budget office? When you employ a driver and you tell him you are traveling from Lagos to Ibadan, half way through the journey petrol finishes or the engine knocks because there was no engine oil in the engine, won't you sack the driver, is it your job to check engine Oil when you have a driver? you will because although you own the car you have employed the driver and part of his responsibilities is to make sure the car is fit for the journey including checking the engine oil and petrol. The driver is a professional so are the people in the budget office, the job of the budget office is to go through and vet all the submissions and prepare the budget for approval, they have been caught in their game. Plus there is a heirachy and they would have signed off on it. Everybody along the chain trusts that people below them have done the jobs they are paid to do, that's the way the system works. If people do their jobs and people are honest, t is not Buhari or any minister's job to go through a budget and say why are you buying 100 computers here, why are you buying 100 a/cs there, the job of a president and minister is to provide policy direction and this is how much we have to spend, it is the role of the civil servants to come up with the expenditure plan (budget) and if they are fraudulent prople like most are, then you get scandals like these. The biggest obstacle to development we have is the civil service crooks, theyve been doing this for decades. So please leave Buhari and Ministers out of it, I'm sure over the course of the next four years they will make their own blunders and you can chastise them for those.

Nicepoker:
Dollar now 373 in parallel market. Bubu hope u are aware.

musicwriter:
After looking into this country we have come to the conclusion corruption itself is what makes this country run. It's a pity some are here defending the sacked staffs when they're part of an elaborate scam. From the president to the ministers to staff at the budget office, this scam could not have happened without them working in tandem. The only reason everybody is denying the budget is because the deal didn't pull through.

1. Was it a staff at the budget office that went to the senate to steal the budget?.
No, to be able to go steal the budget at the senate requires a presidential connection.

2. Who would have received the money for the inflated budgets?.
Ministers and heads of parastatals would have pocketed the extra money.

3. Would the staffs at the budget office not open up, if they were not part of the crime?.
The sacked staffs would have told Nigerians what happened, if they were not working in sync with the presidency and ministers to doctor the budget.

And everybody keeps wondering why the Naira is falling, without realizing that any government that can attempt this brazen theft can rundown a country without batting an eyelid.

Nicepoker:
Dollar now 373 in parallel market. Bubu hope u are aware.

Super1Star:


Must you comment if you do not know a process.

All over the world, civil servants prepare the budget for the public servants and not the other way round. The public servants ie the political class can only teleguide them on what the thinking and policy of the govt is.

lookandlaff:


innocent? . Who do you think prepared the budget if not these evil servants? even in the presidency, all the president or ministers do is formulate policy as far as budget, the job of pkanning, oreparation and vetting is down to the civil servants, all the ministers do is approve based on a trust that the people doing the preparation are honest. when it is found that they are dishonest then you sack.


Buhari's mistake was not forming a cabinet on time, thinking he could work with and trust civil servants not realsing these are the biggest crooks in the land setting him up. Obviously he felt this was 32 years ago when civil servants were still professional. Ministers who just came in barely a month, many unfamiliar to the ministries, many from the private sector, cannot know the inner workings of their ministries in short space of time to know what was submitted before them was a fraud. Even the presidency is manned by civil servants.


The biggest crooks in the country are civil servants, the more of them that are sacked the better for all of us.

Nathe11:
job insecurity nowadays ehn...sm1 will spend ages to look for Job and still be afraid of sacking

paschu:


You are really defending Buhari on this elaborate scam he presented as a budget after months of perfecting it? If your case is true, why did it take the Senate no time flat to see the fraud? Or are they not elected officials too? What we are seeing in the presidency and it's executive officials today is a DARING (in a class of it's own) desperate manifestation of corruption and incompetence. And any excuse you give for it will just go to show how pathetic you think we all are.

Super1Star:


So you expect a President to go through 1,000 of pages? Whaoooo.

He will only look at the summarized version of the entire budget while the Minister will look at the summarized version of the Budget for his ministry.

umehmj:
the self righteous PMB. If others are getting axed for the error riddled budget, it is only proper that he gets the bigger ax, like resign maybe. But no he won't. He is always right. He always have an alibi. I'm still surprised they haven't blamed GEJ for the mess. it's not too late to blame him though

ocelot2006:
Last i checked, the presidency and other ministries ought to have gone through the final draft before submition. Besides it's not like released funds wouldve passed through the Budget Office. In my opinion there's no "budget mafia", just a case of these ministers & cronies padding the budget. The Budget Office, though equally guilty, have simply been made the scapegoat in the pathetic case.

lookandlaff:



months of perfecting it you say? and who were the people he was perfecting it with all those months, no be civil servants? Was it not this same civil servants he was dealing with when he told us ministers are noise makers? He trusted the civil servants and they embarassed him. On your valid point about senate, well I can't answer that because this is not the 1st time dubious budgets have been presented to them and sailed through...maybe the senate this time finally decided to do it's job, dont forget this is a new senate.


On your final point I actually do think people are pathetic because if you cannot see that the civil servants are at fault here then it means your biases, either ibo v hausa or Pdp v apc is clouding your judgement. it's an embarrassment to the government no doubt but the incompetence/fraud cannot be put at the doorsteps of the ministers or Buhari. Like I said Buhari is going to screw up many things before his term is up and we will have the opportunity to objectively lambast him but this is not one of them, this is solely the result of a institutionalized corruption in the civil service.

lookandlaff:



months of perfecting it you say? and who were the people he was perfecting it with all those months, no be civil servants? Was it not this same civil servants he was dealing with when he told us ministers are noise makers? He trusted the civil servants and they embarassed him. On your valid point about senate, well I can't answer that because this is not the 1st time dubious budgets have been presented to them and sailed through...maybe the senate this time finally decided to do it's job, dont forget this is a new senate.


On your final point I actually do think people are pathetic because if you cannot see that the civil servants are at fault here then it means your biases, either ibo v hausa or Pdp v apc is clouding your judgement. it's an embarrassment to the government no doubt but the incompetence/fraud cannot be put at the doorsteps of the ministers or Buhari. Like I said Buhari is going to screw up many things before his term is up and we will have the opportunity to objectively lambast him but this is not one of them, this is solely the result of a institutionalized corruption in the civil service.

Super1Star:


So you expect a President to go through 1,000 of pages? Whaoooo.

He will only look at the summarized version of the entire budget while the Minister will look at the summarized version of the Budget for his ministry.

ziccoit:
Civil service is made up of lots of corrupt bunch. The best properties are not owned by the politicians but those corrupt civil servants. They are the one that teach politicians how to steal without being detected. No politician up to the president can steal today without the aid of these crooks. The rots in GEJ government were aided and supported by the CBN governor who is a civil servant.

The civil service, both private and public, requires overhauling which is urgently needed.

HopeAlive14:
I hope the President is not sacking to save face.

The painful thing are the innocent workers who will fall victim in this exercise.