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Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by ope2711(m): 6:39am On Mar 03, 2016
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has formally replied a letter ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to the National Assembly on January 13, accusing the country’s federal lawmakers of corruption, greed, lawlessness and impunity.
This came barely days after the Senate President took delivery of exotic cars for the Senate.

In his reply, dated January 29, Saraki responded to Obasanjo’s concern, saying the 8th National Assembly under his leadership was already taking deliberate steps to strengthen the country’s democratic institutions and ensure prudent management of resources.

“This is to ensure that we plug all leakages and minimize waste across our expenditure systems,” the Senate President said in the two-page letter.

“Likewise, the 8th National Assembly has made the issue of plugging leakages and cutting wastages in our public expenditure system a major priority that should not be toyed with. This may have happened in the past but it will not happen with us,” he said.
The former president had in his letter, addressed to Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, accused the lawmakers of fixing and earning salaries and allowances far above what the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission approved for them.
He also alleged that most of the 109 senators and 369 members of the House of Representatives were receiving constituency allowances without maintaining constituency offices as the laws required of them.

He faulted the plans by the lawmakers to acquire new exotic cars for themselves, saying “whatever name it is disguised as, it is unnecessary and insensitive.”
He advised that “a pool of a few cars for each chamber will suffice for any Committee Chairman or members for any specific duty.”

But in his response, Saraki told the former President that the lawmakers were fully aware of the challenges the nation was facing.

He said: “As leaders with a duty, we will not disappoint Nigerians in their yearnings for a more transparent public expenditure system.”
On corruption, Saraki said the National Assembly was working with President Muhammadu Buhari to stem the menace in the country.

According to him, the legislature was already overhauling its oversight functions to make it more effective in exposing corruption in federal ministries, departments and agencies.

He said: “We are hand in glove with the President on this matter and this is why we are overhauling our oversight functions to make it more effective in exposing corruption in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

“We recognize the hard work our anti-corruption agencies are putting into this fight. The Senate is resolved to support them to perform their duty effectively by providing them with adequate funding where necessary, as their work in integral to our oversight responsibility.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/saraki-formally-replies-obasanjo-promises-to-cut-waste-fight-corruption/

Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by olaolayink(m): 6:42am On Mar 03, 2016
so na like dis d fc thing be?i thought seun will send money to my account....ladyF n d rest,just come n take Ur spot back


back to d topic....saraki why forming loyalty,na here we dey when you buy cars back2back from Benz 2 Toyota...now you dey form handing things out.God will judge all of you

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by funlord(m): 6:45am On Mar 03, 2016
angry


What sort of nonsense is this "looter vandross" called bukky saying like this? So you get mouth sef?


I blame "cct and efcc" for dulling sha!

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by DuchessLily(f): 6:52am On Mar 03, 2016
Mtswee...Pot calling kettle black! Abegi u are all d same


Waste, impunity, corruption, other evils..... Even in d era of dis our CHANGE

Govt workers are not being paid! We keep hearing there is no money! Pls has d country not been selling oil since?? What abt d money they have been recovering? Even d recent one from Abacha's loot??

They have been buying vehiclesssss... Vehicles that they don't need... They pay themselves more than their salaries, but can't pay d masses working... Instead they are collecting from d masses.. Stamp duty my foot angry embarassed sad

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by kniru: 6:52am On Mar 03, 2016
ok oooo!!!
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by datola: 7:08am On Mar 03, 2016
I thought Saraki said Obasanjo is also a thief and as such he should keep quiet.
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by koboko69: 7:13am On Mar 03, 2016
datola:
I thought Saraki said Obasanjo is also a thief and as such he should keep quiet.

CCT is making him loyal!

All na wash

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by efilefun(m): 7:13am On Mar 03, 2016
No amount of loyalty fit save you from CCT on the 11th

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by dammytosh: 7:15am On Mar 03, 2016
And they are fighting against TSA?

Liars
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Chibaba247(m): 7:16am On Mar 03, 2016
Obasanjo is not holy too, only fela can describe him better

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by yaqq: 7:24am On Mar 03, 2016
lol, dt means them d use juju serve juju! saraki n corruption rre synonymous

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by nicedas(m): 7:45am On Mar 03, 2016
Chibaba247:
Obasanjo is not holy too, only fela can describe him better
ahahahha. saraki na 419. its all abt senate president.
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Tunami(m): 7:50am On Mar 03, 2016
how can corrupt people fight corruption.
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by ShitHead(m): 8:29am On Mar 03, 2016
GEJ until 2019.

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by demarc001: 8:29am On Mar 03, 2016
Naija case be like.. In African China's voice #paddy paddy arrangee noni#

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by BiggerBangs: 8:29am On Mar 03, 2016
shocked
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by nurex01(m): 8:29am On Mar 03, 2016
Ok
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by KINGinVAHALA: 8:29am On Mar 03, 2016
This saraki man wants anything, everything, anybody and everybody to help it quash his CCT trial.

Saraki don gentle, calm and respectful by all means.

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by MadCow1: 8:29am On Mar 03, 2016
Saraki, angry


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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Generalkorex(m): 8:30am On Mar 03, 2016
After they don buy d car abi
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by ngmgeek(m): 8:31am On Mar 03, 2016
Na today?
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by saintkel(m): 8:31am On Mar 03, 2016
OBJ sincerely was corrupt during his tenure but d letter he wrote to d senate was intact and dat of an Elder statesman. He was right and 4 d ist time, he had Nigeria in mind.

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by thefakestan: 8:31am On Mar 03, 2016
Ok thanks e no be epistle




ThefakeStan
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Nobody: 8:33am On Mar 03, 2016
ope2711:
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has formally replied a letter ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to the National Assembly on January 13, accusing the country’s federal lawmakers of corruption, greed, lawlessness and impunity.
This came barely days after the Senate President took delivery of exotic cars for the Senate.

In his reply, dated January 29, Saraki responded to Obasanjo’s concern, saying the 8th National Assembly under his leadership was already taking deliberate steps to strengthen the country’s democratic institutions and ensure prudent management of resources.

“This is to ensure that we plug all leakages and minimize waste across our expenditure systems,” the Senate President said in the two-page letter.

“Likewise, the 8th National Assembly has made the issue of plugging leakages and cutting wastages in our public expenditure system a major priority that should not be toyed with. This may have happened in the past but it will not happen with us,” he said.
The former president had in his letter, addressed to Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, accused the lawmakers of fixing and earning salaries and allowances far above what the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission approved for them.
He also alleged that most of the 109 senators and 369 members of the House of Representatives were receiving constituency allowances without maintaining constituency offices as the laws required of them.

He faulted the plans by the lawmakers to acquire new exotic cars for themselves, saying “whatever name it is disguised as, it is unnecessary and insensitive.”
He advised that “a pool of a few cars for each chamber will suffice for any Committee Chairman or members for any specific duty.”

But in his response, Saraki told the former President that the lawmakers were fully aware of the challenges the nation was facing.

He said: “As leaders with a duty, we will not disappoint Nigerians in their yearnings for a more transparent public expenditure system.”
On corruption, Saraki said the National Assembly was working with President Muhammadu Buhari to stem the menace in the country.

According to him, the legislature was already overhauling its oversight functions to make it more effective in exposing corruption in federal ministries, departments and agencies.

He said: “We are hand in glove with the President on this matter and this is why we are overhauling our oversight functions to make it more effective in exposing corruption in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

“We recognize the hard work our anti-corruption agencies are putting into this fight. The Senate is resolved to support them to perform their duty effectively by providing them with adequate funding where necessary, as their work in integral to our oversight responsibility.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/saraki-formally-replies-obasanjo-promises-to-cut-waste-fight-corruption/



He has to be loyal,no insults or OBJ will bring him down.You can Bleep with Buhari but not with OBJ-

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by orlarbissy(f): 8:33am On Mar 03, 2016
Hmmmmmm, all na Scam.
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Empress2014(f): 8:34am On Mar 03, 2016
undecided this saraki is acting like a snake under the green grass

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by AJOT99(m): 8:40am On Mar 03, 2016
Nice
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Babyphinas(f): 8:41am On Mar 03, 2016
?

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Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by Wazzaowner(m): 8:43am On Mar 03, 2016
Bleep U all.. Useless Corrupt Politicians.
Re: Saraki Formally Replies Obasanjo, Promises To Cut Waste, Fight Corruption by BABANGBALI: 8:44am On Mar 03, 2016
orlarbissy:
Hmmmmmm, all na Scam.
Olabisi come make i show you something long and big kiss kiss

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