Budget: NASS to override Buhari by Ogochukwu Anioke, April 18, 2016 at 2:30 pm in News Update Facebook Twitter SMS WhatsApp The National Assembly has threatened to override the President Muhamadu Buhari at the end of 30 days if he fails to accent to the 2016 Appropriation bill which was passed by the legislature. The member representing Afikpo North/ South constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Idu Igariwey stated this yesterday. The Lawmaker who chided those blaming the National Assembly for making changes to the bill said the lawmakers should not be crucified for doing there constitutional duties. He said, “Truth of the matter is that the budget came with a lot of difficulties. The budget came almost like a stillborn baby and so it needed the legislators to put life to it. Either because it came in a hurry, was hurriedly conceived and poorly digested before it came to us. Maybe those were the reasons. But at the end of the day, the NASS had to do due diligence to the budget by looking at the various figures and the various areas of allocation of resources”. “For instance, let us look at the budget for the Works Ministry. If you saw the analysis that was made, you will discover that most parts of the budget were supposed to go to one part of the country. A state like Ebonyi had nothing to do with that budget as it concerns federal roads! And this is a budget that ran into over # 300 billion, I think the only thing that came to Ebonyi state was only # 28 million out of that whooping amount which was maybe to provide shoulder for the Abakaliki-Enugu Road already being completed”. “And we are only talking about 36 states in this country and so how can you assign #28million out of #300 billion to Ebonyi? And this also happened in other states of the south East. And we as legislators from the East you don’t expect us not to kick against such unequal distribution of our common wealth. So, it was now our duty to ensure that this budget did not go back the way it was conceived by the Minister for Works. We now made sure that some of the items also went to the South East by way of roads”. “And that is what the constitution empowers us to do. That is why the constitution gave us the power of appropriation and that is why the document comes to us. There is no legislature in this world where the budget proposal goes to the legislatives and it goes back the same”. “Then why did you even bring it to the legislature? If there is no need for us to make inputs into it, then the constitution should have conceived a system where the executive will formulate, appropriate, implement and maybe also oversight”. The lawmaker while recognizing the right of the President to withhold accent noted that the National Assembly also has the right to override him and pass the budget into law”. “The constitution clearly has made previsions for Mr. President to withdraw his assent as regards any bill, not just the money bill, but the same constitution has given us power within 30 days to override him”. “These things were all contemplated by the constitution. So, if Mr. President is withholding his assent, then it is still within his constitutional powers. But he should also expect us as expected by the constitution to also exercise our rights as also provided for by the constitution which is to override his withholding of his assent and when we do, that budget which is the money bill will become law. It’s as simple as he withholds his assent, then we override him”. http://thenationonlineng.net/budget-nass-override-buhari/

There we go! Now we know why zombies want the budget to be endorsed as submitted by Mr President..... No allocations to states like Ebonyi in the FMoW...Wicked...Yet Fashola allocated over 50 billion to the Lagos Ibadan expressway and their fraudulent foot soldiers have being crying more than the Syrians about how 24 billion was slashed!!! Jeeeez!
In Nigga Raws voice "One Nigeria...Hey!"

This is a personal opinion of a member who belongs to a minority party in the house.I challenge the hon member to show us(Nigerians) a copy of all the federal budgets since 1999,for us to confirm if anyone has had road projects in all the 36 states of the federation.

While the PDP senator from Ebonyi claims that only very little was appropriated to his state, he is ironically endorsing the motion to redirect the funds allocated to other southern states to the north. And someone means to tell me that some of these guys (including their supporters) haven't gone mad?....

chudionu58:
There we go! Now we know why zombies want the budget to be endorsed as submitted by Mr President..... No allocations to states like Ebonyi in the FMoW...Wicked...Yet Fashola allocated over 50 billion to the Lagos Ibadan expressway and their fraudulent foot soldiers have being crying more than the Syrians about how 24 billion was slashed!!! Jeeeez!
In Nigga Raws voice "One Nigeria...Hey!"

Cutting your nose to spite your face?.... or can someone please tell me that this Ebonyi man moved some more funds to projects in his states and not to the north?

It's a pity that there is logjam in the passage of the bill. I want to believe both parties have good intentions but seems to me however, the politicians are bringing in sectionalism and favouritism into the budget. I thought it was after 60 days not 30 days. I am believing that the president will sign the budget in May before Democracy Day.

So the 95% vs 5% was actually smuggled into the padded budget. Thank Allah for the eagle eyed legislators and the boldness they've shown in correcting such abnormality. Every attempt by the executive to pit the masses on collision course with the legislature is already DOA!

in another news, 'SARAKI TO OVERRIDE Buhari.'

Almajiri1:
So the 95% vs 5% was actually smuggled into the padded budget. Thank Allah for the eagle eyed legislators and the boldness they've shown in correcting such abnormality. Every attempt by the executive to pit the masses on collision course with the legislature is already DOA!

How was it corrected?... funds were cut out from the south and pushed to projects in the north and humans from the south actually support this because they think they have a duty to fight Buhari?

A very strong case of 'Iberiberism' here.

obailala:
How was it corrected?... funds were cut out from the south and pushed to projects in the north and humans from the south actually support this because they think they have a duty to fight Buhari?

A very strong case of 'Iberiberism' here.

What did you smoke? Can't you read and comprehend?

Almajiri1:
So the 95% vs 5% was actually smuggled into the padded budget. Thank Allah for the eagle eyed legislators and the boldness they've shown in correcting such abnormality. Every attempt by the executive to pit the masses on collision course with the legislature is already DOA!

u lied big time as many of them shall b dealt wt seriously. Go ask Ningi and many more to come..
It is either they represent us or are against us ...no two ways about it. We trust Buhari..
shikenan!

Almajiri1:

What did you smoke? Can't you read and comprehend?

From what has been read and digested so far on the entire issue, it is clear that funds for major projects in the south were cut in favour of projects in the north. I have no idea what this Afikpo PDP man is saying. It is on record that the Lagos-Calabar rail was cancelled and billions meant for it were diverted to the north. Similarly, billions were cut from the 2nd Niger bridge project, the Lagos Ibadan road project, the Benin-Sagamu project and many other projects in southern Nigeria and the funds were all diverted to vague projects in the north. For the fact that we have humans from the south supporting this (probably cos they think life starts and end with opposing Buhari), then it is sad. It's obviously because of this sort of reasoning that Einstein made the statement below:



A very strong case of 'Iberiberism' is what we have here.

I make bold to say that it that 1million of them CANNOT do it.

The NASS should go ahead and do that. The foolishness and immaturity being displayed by the Executive should not be tolerated. Just sign the budget, and later add into the supplementary budget, what was left out.

Babacele:
u lied big time as many of them shall b dealt wt seriously. Go ask Ningi and many more to come..
It is either they represent us or are against us ...no two ways about it. We trust Buhari..
shikenan!

Buhari sold out by being a party to that national embarrassment of a padded budget and even made shameful attempts to smuggle it into law. Only zombies and everyone that has sold their conscience for a plate of jollof rice will stand with "saint" Buhari in this. Can you see yourself more clearly now?

obailala:

From what has been read and digested so far on the entire issue, it is clear that funds for major projects in the south were cut in favour of projects in the north. I have no idea what this Afikpo PDP man is saying. It is on record that the Lagos-Calabar rail was cancelled and billions meant for it were diverted to the north. Similarly, billions were cut from the 2nd Niger bridge project, the Lagos Ibadan road project, the Benin-Sagamu project and many other projects in southern Nigeria and the funds were all diverted to vague projects in the north. For the fact that we have humans from the south supporting this (probably cos they think life starts and end with opposing Buhari), then it is sad. It's obviously because of this sort of reasoning that Einstein made the statement below:

A very strong case of 'Iberiberism' is what we have here.

Between you and The member representing Afikpo North/ South constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Idu Igariwey-who is on ground with first hand Intel and you a known APC card carrying member who is closer to the truth?

Almajiri1:

Between you and The member representing Afikpo North/ South constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Idu Igariwey-who is on ground with first hand Intel and you a known APC card carrying member who is closer to the truth?

Okay, let's wait until the full/further details are revealed.

Almajiri1:

Between you and The member representing Afikpo North/ South constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Idu Igariwey-who is on ground with first hand Intel and you a known APC card carrying member who is closer to the truth?

Lagos-Calabar Rail Removed (N60bn)
Lagos-Ibadan Exp. Rd Reduced by N24bn
Second Niger Bridge Slashed by N3.9 bn
Odukpani-Itu-I/Ekpene Rd Reduced by N4.3bn
Benin-Sagamu Rd Reduced by N800m
Itakpe-Warri Signalling Cut by N302.9m
Calabar-Ikom-Obudu Rail N267m

Funds for the following projects serving the SW, SS and SE were cut-off from the budget and added to some vague projects in the north. Meanwhile one Rep from Afikpo supports and defends this move passionately and tells us it is because very little was budgeted for his state. Can someone please tell us how many new projects were eventually budgeted for in the new budget for Ebonyi state (or for anywhere else in the south)?.... Can someone please tell me these southern Reps are not playing politics of stupidity because they think life starts and ends with fighting Buhari?

@Almajiri1, kindly tell us the extra projects which were proposed for the SE or SS or SW in the new budget which makes you support this brazen madness?.... If you can't tell me the commensurate projects benefiting southern Nigeria which were included in the NASS' upgraded budget, then it is obvious Einstein truly knew what he was talking about.