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Budget padding is not new. Why did Jibrin speak out when he was the Committee Chairman? He should be prosecuted first because he is an accomplice.

Rubbosh thread. Who does not know Buhari and his apc members? I am ready tp bet an body if this trial by efcc and other agencies will ever bring any result. As long as it is not against pdp members, as it is not against any Igbo, any south south persons, it will never bring any result. Buhari is a known tribalist. Anything that has to do with his party members, expect nothing. This investigations will be given the usual names, description and it will just die off. Nonsense trails.

drss2:
''its not possible to padd national budget without connivance with d executive''. - ghali umar na'aba

You obviously don't know how it works. Go get yourself a brain.

Just imagine if the "padder" are PDP members

By now will be debating if to grant them bail or not

Firefire:
Lies from the pit of hell.

If Dambazul and Burantashi can be allowed to keep their loots, how much more Dogara.


APC, Party of professional 'Padders'and career rogues.

My though also. Why does any normal being ever think this investigation will come with any results? To make it worst, the accused is from the north and an apc member. Nonsense rubbish. Buhari can never take me for a rid. He is a known triabalist. When the chairman of the army procurement department is left free when others who were there and those who were after that team is being tried yet the chairman is left free. God is indeed merciful. However, the end justifies the means

ayoolanr:
"The 262, according to sources, have already signed a register opened by Dogara to keep track of those backing him. The signature drive is being collated across the six geopolitical zones on a state by state basis with support for Dogara said to be very strong in five zones with the Southwest being the exception."

I think we are just too good for this contraption called Nigeria. Yorubas should come together and start strategizing on how to ditch this sinking ship!! The political elites like tinubu and co are just old , senile touts who only care about themselves and their egos!!!

Yorubas are not supporting him because they are hoping to support Gbajabiamila (Who has already declared that padding is not illegal) to become a new speaker. So stop fooling yourself here.. You people are very treacherous and dangerous.. Wicked hypocrite

CyberWolf:
Yorubas are not supporting him because they are hoping to support Gbajabiamila (Who has already declared that padding is not illegal) to become a new speaker. So stop fooling yourself here.. You people are very treacherous and dangerous.. Wicked hypocrite

Your mother!!

ayoolanr:


Your mother!!

ayoolanr:
"The 262, according to sources, have already signed a register opened by Dogara to keep track of those backing him. The signature drive is being collated across the six geopolitical zones on a state by state basis with support for Dogara said to be very strong in five zones with the Southwest being the exception."

I think we are just too good for this contraption called Nigeria. Yorubas should come together and start strategizing on how to ditch this sinking ship!! The political elites like tinubu and co are just old , senile touts who only care about themselves and their egos!!!

He thinks Yorubas are too good to be in Nigeria... Lol.

CyberWolf:
Yorubas are not supporting him because they are hoping to support Gbajabiamila (Who has already declared that padding is not illegal) to become a new speaker. So stop fooling yourself here.. You people are very treacherous and dangerous.. Wicked hypocrite

Another angle. Hehehe.

ayoolanr:


Your mother!!

Bros u don vex o

What trial are they talking about? How many of our politicians have been convicted so far? Corrupt govt! Corrupt judiciary!

OLADD:
The same way "the presidency will not condone any banditry by herdsmen" yet scores of Nigerians are been mowed down on daily basis.

If this budget padding saga had been a PDP affair, Lai Mohammed and Buhari would have made a mountain out of mere molehill but since the APC saints are involved, this deafening silence of and indifference attitude are expected. Fighting corruption my foot! Hypocrites!

You are very on point bro

*Why most States can't pay salaries of workers and the many ills of our economy.* THIS IS AN ASSESSMENT ON AN INSTITUTION WITH ALL POLITICAL PARTIES. *NOT A DISCUSSION ON ANY POLITICAL PARTY.*

21 senators currently receive pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.

The current senators who once served as governors are *Bukola Saraki* of Kwara, *Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso* of Kano, *Kabiru Gaya* of Kano, *Godswill Akpabio* of Akwa Ibom, *Theodore Orji* of Abia, *Abdullahi Adamu* of Nasarawa, *Sam Egwu* of Ebonyi, *Shaaba Lafiagi* of Kwara, *Joshua Dariye* of Plateau *Jonah Jang* of Plateau, *Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko* of Sokoto, *Ahmed Sani Yarima* of Zamfara, *Danjuma Goje* of Gombe, *Bukar Abba Ibrahim* of Yobe, *Adamu Aliero* of Kebbi, *George Akume* of Benue and *Isiaka Adeleke* of Osun.

*The former deputy governors in the Senate*
are *Ms Biodun Olujimi* of Ekiti and *Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe* of Abia. *Danladi Abubakar Sani* served as the acting governor of Taraba state.

Many *former governors* are also in Buhari's Cabinet as Ministers. This includes: *Ngige, Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola (SAN)*

In Akwa Ibom State, the law provides that ex governors and deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent. The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his deputy governor.

In Rivers, the law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor “anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars for the deputy every four years.

It is alledged that in Lagos, a former governor will get two houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.

This is the reality for all the 21 ex govenors and deputy governors who are currently serving as senators. This same is also true of ex governors who are now serving as Ministers.

NOW I ASK:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to these *bogus and mind bugling* pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous? Do they have two heads? A man puts in 35years of his life in service, he ends up with a fraction of his earnings as pension. Some politician does 8years and for life he doesn't have to work again.

As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a serving governor in Nigeria?

IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE......

Once you are elected a senator or appointed a minister, *you must forfeit any pension accruing to you from government at any level until you vacate office.* This should also apply to senators collecting military pensions like former Senate President *David Mark.*
Yet these senators are in the Senate that is inviting the current finance minister to discuss the recession of Nigeria's economy. *A senator pockets approximately 30 million naira monthly as salary and allowances.* Our so called *"honourables"* are *NOT* interested in making laws that could restructure our country into economically autonomous federating States/Regions to save the country from sectional agitations that is threatening to destroy Nigeria. Why should they? They are feeding fat the way things are now. The sad and hopeless situation is that the rest of Nigerians are busy arguing based on party, and ethnic affiliations while these enemies of state continue to rape us.

Do you know that it costs tax payers *290m Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly* in a country where nothing works & 80% of the population earn below 300 Naira a day? A *working day earning* of a senator is MORE than a yearly income of a doctor; it's more than the salary of 42 Army generals or 48 professors or 70 commissioners of police or more than twice the pay of the US president or 9times the salary of US congressmen.

Please say NO to this looting of Nigeria in the name of democracy by sending this text to at least 5 others.

*I believe this country must have a referendum on salaries of all our law makers.* This must happen very quickly