victorazy:

Hello sir, plz don't be offended and don't take it otherwise.
Plz find your way back to correct the highlighted word to these, u forgot it so easily. I do make the same mistake more than you.

. . .  its either you were a Headmaster in the 50's or you were brought up by one.

@ bold
typical way they do correct strangers; they correct anybody, anywhere, and anytime.

all this stories no concern me, abeg who get hm campaign manager numba, i av to enrol. this money shall not pass me by,

If you ask GEJ that what he is doing, you will be surprised his answer. They are so corrupt that they don't even know when they are spending public money they think it is theirs. PDP WILL SURELY GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DOWN.

sammirano:

If you ask GEJ that what he is doing, you will be surprised his answer. They are so corrupt that they don't even know when they are spending public money they think it is theirs. PDP WILL SURELY GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DOWN.

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Mojibola:

all this stories no concern me, abeg who get hm campaign manager numba, i av to enrol. this money shall not pass me by,

Ask Beaf - at least the internet warriors are reputed to live in a bunker in Abuja from where they spam us continuously on the net

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POT CALLING KETTLE CHARCOAL! COME,IF PAT UTOMI OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS,CLIMBS THAT SEAT OF POWER AND AWUFFFFF MONIES,WOULD HE NOT DO THE SAME OR EVEN WORSE.

HIS FIGURES ARE OVER-EMPHASIZED!. HE SHOULD GO AN SEAT IS HUNGRY ASS DOWN, GRAMMER BOI.!

where is the so called evidence?utomi should provide the evidence before we start to critizise this ijaw man.

most nigerians don't have a problem with their tax money being spent foolishly. In fact, they will argue with you that tax payers money should be used on the frivolous and the elite.
Imagine some posters who think it's ok for the governor to use tax payers money to send nollywood stars abroad for medical treatments while thousands of regular and poor people are suffering at home and paying taxes that end up going to the elite and the well connected in society.

Jenifa_:

most nigerians don't have a problem with their tax money being spent foolishly. In fact, they will argue with you that tax payers money should be used on the frivolous and the elite.
Imagine some posters who think it's ok for the governor to use tax payers money to send nollywood stars abroad for medical treatments while thousands of regular and poor people are suffering at home and paying taxes that end up going to the elite and the well connected in society.

I beg to differ, did you carry out a survey to arrive at this conclusion? If so, did you have 70% of nigerians participating in your survey to buttress your point. Please think before making very general comments. Nigerians do not support the crap you are referring to.

blink182:

I beg to differ, did you carry out a survey to arrive at this conclusion? If so, did you have 70% of nigerians participating in your survey to buttress your point. Please think before making very general comments. Nigerians do not support the crap you are referring to.

give yourself a round of applause for realizing it was a broad generalization. At least it caught your attention.

Nigeria really need to change it's attitude about how we hold our leaders accountable. Politicians are corrupt and spend our money anyhow because WE LET THEM.

^^^
Babe we're trying but the people have been so brain washed over the years that making things ok will not happen over night

yea that's true. I think it's the after effect of long periods of millitary/authoritarian rule. we're still mentally used to it. democracy should involve active citizen participation.

ok. let's not derail the topic

Jenifa_:

yea that's true. I think it's the after effect of long periods of millitary/authoritarian rule. we're still mentally used to it. democracy should involve active citizen participation.

ok. let's not derail the topic

That's another generalization which is most likely wrong. I'm almost certain that most members of this forum and indeed a far larger percentage of Nigerian youths today were either not born or virtually toddlers when we had a good military leadership. What we have been brainwashed with is the 12 solid years of misrule by PDP, a situation GEJ wants to continue to perpetrate. If 12 years of democracy is not long enough for you to be clear of what you intend to achieve, there is noo point for you to come out here spewing hatred about a military you have little or no knowledge about.

Abacha was probably a tyrant, however his despotism pales into insignificance when compared to what we have today. Infrastructural projects which were delivered in the 5 years of Abacha's dictatorship far outweighs the projects, if any, that PDP has delivered in their 12 years of misrule.

9ijaMan:

That's another generalization which is most likely wrong. I'm almost certain that most members of this forum and indeed a far larger percentage of Nigerian youths today were either not born or virtually toddlers when we had a good military leadership. What we have been brainwashed with is the 12 solid years of misrule by PDP, a situation GEJ wants to continue to perpetrate. If 12 years of democracy is not long enough for you to be clear of what you intend to achieve, there is noo point for you to come out here spewing hatred about a military you have little or no knowledge about.

Abacha was probably a tyrant, however his despotism pales into insignificance when compared to what we have today. Infrastructural projects which were delivered in the 5 years of Abacha's dictatorship far outweighs the projects, if any, that PDP has delivered in their 12 years of misrule.

Please name the projects, I thought he was too busy stealing money for him to even do anything

There is no proof to back up utomi's statements. I belief he was only talking out of bitterness and making mere assumptions!

blink182:

Please name the projects, I thought he was too busy stealing money for him to even do anything

Most PTF projects executed by Buhari were under Abacha's regime. Do you need more proof?

9ijaMan:

Most PTF projects executed by Buhari were under Abacha's regime. Do you need more proof?

Give a list my bro, i seriously dont know

Obj spent Yaradua did, Joe is doing and so will the next do - what are the real issues to discuss?

i dont know why people are so blind in this country.there is nothing that is secretive in this this country.i believe it is true that pdp spend 100 million on campaign every day and that is why we must stop this evil act.i am sure pdp is also responsible for what happen in oyo state and we shall fold our hand and see how mr goodluck will handle the saga

that hopeless man called utomi should up his dirty mouth

i know that this man gej is THIEVE he can never do good for the seat

blink182:

Give a list my bro, i seriously dont know

Let's start with the following:
PTF constructed lecture theaters in virtually every single Federal Universities across the nation.
PTF rehabilitated and refurbished teaching hospitals in all Federal Universities in Nigeria
PTF provided drugs, and medical equipment to the same institutions (PTF insignias are still abound in these hospitals to date)
PTF provided at least 2 buses each for the student unions of the same universities
PTF constructed roads across the nation. . .
I can go on and on.
Please read the write up below to get a better perspective.

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COUNTRY REPORT
NIGERIA
[size=15pt]Development: PTF - shining in the gloom
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The Petroleum Trust Fund, headed by former President, Gen. Buhari, has confounded all its critics. As a development agency, it has succeeded spectacularly where all others failed. Pini Jason has the details.

The one silver lining to emerge from the current heavy economic cloud must be the performance of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF). In October 1994, General Sani Abacha hiked the pump price of petrol from N3.25 to N11 per litre, promising, with Decree 25, to set up a Petroleum Trust Fund to distribute the gains from the increase on social and infrasturctural projects. The board of the fund, headed by former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, was eventually inaugurated on March 21, 1995.

The Fund began with an initial capital of about N60bn in 1996. Its all encompassing mandate includes the rehabilitation of roads and waterways, educational and health institutions, providing textbooks and stationary, procuring essential drugs and vaccines, providing water supply systems, reviving crumbling agricultural sectors, connecting outlying areas to the national electricity grid, extending railways and telecommunications and ensuring consistent food supply.

The huge budget and all-embracing mandate earned PTF some criticisms. Some dubbed it "the alternative government," accusing it of duplicating the responsibilities of other existing government agencies. There was for instance an initial conflict about who should be tarring which road, between PTF and the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing.

Yet, for once, other Nigerians began to hope that here was an agency that took its work seriously. The question was: could it carry out its entire mandate, or even a part of it? Everyone waited to see what would happen.

Initially PTF awarded contracts for the rehabilitation of 12,000km of federal highways (including drainages) nationwide, and between 25-100km of urban road in major cities such as Gusau, Benin, Funtua, Zaria, Enugu, Kaduna, Aba, Lagos, Lokoja, and Port Harcourt. A N27.3bn contract was awarded for road rehabilitation in the first quarter of 1996. The sum of N1.328bn was awarded to 53 pharmaceutical companies for the supply of drugs, while the importation of vaccines cost N229.9m. As at December 31, 1997, funds available to PTF stood at N115.1bn.

One thing even the most uncharitable critic of PTF will admit is that it has evolved a new way of doing things. This is true to its mission statement which is 'to establish and operate an open, modest and efficient organisation for the purpose of achieving the honest and timely execution of carefully designed socio-economic projects.'

Right from its inception, the Head of State directed the fund to operate a lean bureaucracy. It depends therefore largely on consultants supervised by Afri-Projects Consortium, the management consultant to PTF. This policy has created jobs and boosted the confidence of Nigerian professionals such as architects, engineers and quantity surveyors.

In many other ways, PTF has thrown a lifeline to dying sectors of the economy. Most of Nigeria's pharmaceutical companies were failing, and the foreign multinationals were divesting. But through its drugs procurement programme, PTF has turned the balance sheet of most of them into profit. Equipment and car leasing companies are also benefitting from the multiplier effects of PTF operations.

Banks and insurance companies have also benefited. Nigeria has a history of contractors collecting mobilisation (advance) fees and not carrying out the contract. But not with PTF. Every advance payment up to N10m must be guaranteed by a PTF-approved bank, while other advance payments are covered by performance bonds issued by similarly approved insurance companies. This method, apart from increasing solvency through cash deposits, has created business for banks and insurance companies.

One of the insurance companies that has benefited from PTF as a provider of performance bonds is The United Nigeria Insurance Company (UNIC), a composite insurance company which provides both life and non-life insurance. The total assets of UNIC stood at N979m while it grossed premium income of N916m and settled claims of N263m in 1996. With a staff of 552 spread all over its nationwide branch network, UNIC is today one of the leading insurance company in Nigeria.

Another company that has done good business with PTF is IPWA plc, formerly International Paints (West Africa) Ltd. IPWA is today one of the biggest and most diversified paint manufacturers in Nigeria. The company product range spans automotive paints, building paints, industrial coatings and marine coatings. Others are packaging coatings, protective coatings and wood finishes.

Most PTF contractors, specialist advisers and consultants lease and use computers, fax machines, printers and photocopiers. This has provided a new market for computer companies like Leading Edge Ltd., headed by Mr Tony Edoro, the managing director. Leading Edge is foremost in cloning computers with parts from diverse companies such as US Micro-Generation, IBM Direct, Merisel and Gateway. According to Mr Edoro, a widely experienced computer systems engineer, the advent of PTF has been good for Leading Edge. The company's turnover has grown from N50m in 1995 to well over N100m in 1997.

Apart from energising several sectors of the economy, PTF is also setting the pace in another direction. In the words of Mr Salihijo Ahmad, of Afri-Projects Consortium, the twin objectives of PTF are to "rehabilitate infrastructures and reorientate the people." This the fund does through its insistence on transparency even though some critics still accuse it of lopsidedness in project execution and selection of consultants and contractors.

In a country dogged by lack of transparency, PTF is the first, and perhaps the only public institution in Nigeria to publish its annual accounts. Last year, when he presented the annual report and accounts of 1996, Gen. Buhari promised to present the 1997 accounts before the end of the first quarter of 1998. He fulfilled that promise.

The 1997 account of PTF shows that it disbursed N24.3bn on roads, N21.2bn on security, N7.8bn on health, and N3bn on other projects. Other disbursements include N2.2bn on water supply, N936m on food supply and N476m on education. It realised a total of N1.049bn from various investment activities.

Reviewing the success story of PTF, Gen. Buhari said: "We have consolidated our execution of the take-off projects for the previous year and increased our intervention within the sectors. There is no doubt that the years ahead will witness even more intervention, as reports of some of the studies commissioned are received and project execution commenced."

The fund has embarked on community education to sensitise and enlighten communities of its activities. The idea is to bring recipients closer to the objectives of the fund, so that they can participate in project identification and selection as well as eventual PTF projects in their areas.

One aspect of the overall project that the public has raised an eyebrow over is the Armed Forces PTF. According to Gen. Buhari, PTF is under instruction to allocate 20% of its funds to the armed forces, and another 1% to the Federal Capital Territory. The allocation to the Armed Forces is probably a continuation of a practice that started during Gen. Babangida's time when he used to allocate excess revenue from the projected price of crude directly to the commanding officers. But what worries critics of PTF is that the military is not accountable to anyone regarding its utilisation of funds. Moreover, critics question the wisdom of allocating such a huge chunk to the military (who also usually takes the lion's share of the budget) over and above food supply, education and health. Apart from roads, the allocation to all other sectors does not add up to the Armed Forces PTF allocation.

Nobody knows how long PTF, a purely intensive intervention agency, will last or whether there will be a place for such an agency under a democratic set up. That decision, Gen. Buhari said, will be up to Nigerians. For now his preoccupation is to rehabilitate infrastructure and reorientate the people towards a new, effective and efficient way of executing uninflated contracts without kickbacks and without consuming mobilisation fees. Said Gen. Buhari to PTF contractors: "If you perform well, you get a hand shake. If you perform badly, you get a handcuff."

[url=http://www.africasia.com/archive/na/98_06/abcr0604.htm[/b]]http://www.africasia.com/archive/na/98_06/abcr0604.htm[/url]
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I hope you now have a better perspective.

@ Monkeyleg
Thx 4 telling Rossyke, she don't know what's next. Well I won't so much blame those who don't know that every waste of public fund is denying him them d basic things d govt shd provide them, 'cos they've got too used to being a pple without enforceable right, not even a voice. O ma se o!

Well, maybe she endorses d umbrella party's presidential candidate too. U see who's endorsing who? Birds of d same feather, (complete it if U know).

9ijaMan:

That's another generalization which is most likely wrong. I'm almost certain that most members of this forum and indeed a far larger percentage of Nigerian youths today were either not born or virtually toddlers when we had a good military leadership. What we have been brainwashed with is the 12 solid years of misrule by PDP, a situation GEJ wants to continue to perpetrate. If 12 years of democracy is not long enough for you to be clear of what you intend to achieve, there is noo point for you to come out here spewing hatred about a military you have little or no knowledge about.

Abacha was probably a tyrant, however his despotism pales into insignificance when compared to what we have today. Infrastructural projects which were delivered in the 5 years of Abacha's dictatorship far outweighs the projects, if any, that PDP has delivered in their 12 years of misrule.

good military leadership my butt.
even Gadaffi was probably popular among the people when he first came to power. it is only few yrs down the line that people will begin to realize the negative effects of authoritarian rule.

what we have in Nigeria is not a yet a democracy but it's better than millitary rule.
democracy: government of the people, for the people, by the people. is that what we have in Nigeria?
yea we call it democracy. but as Fela sings, democrazy fits better.

you must be one of the rich folks in naija from the way you post. I don't think majority of Nigerians will agree with you that they want Abacha back.

alphonso k:

i dont know why people are so blind in this country.there is nothing that is secretive in this this country.i believe it is true that pdp spend 100 million on campaign every day and that is why we must stop this evil act.i am sure pdp is also responsible for what happen in oyo state and we shall fold our hand and see how mr goodluck will handle the saga

I won't be surprised if the amount spent daily by GEJ is double what utomi said. All these bombasts by dead brains available on NL asking for proof are either PRO-GEJ or just dumbbells.

I want the best for my generation living and yet unborn hence, I campaign cohesively for BB 2011 ticket as much as I can from diaspora

^^^Same thing from my end bro. Campaigning vigorously for the BB ticket.

As long as you guys have made up your minds to hate GEJ even if he decided to stepdown for Buhari or Ribadu, you will still hate him. But you guys has failled to realize that GEJA is not the only presidential candidate spending hundreds of milion in campaign and also, that prominent Nigerians donated their money to that effect including Dangotte. You see, wether or not you guys hated GEJA it doesn't count because your hatred towards him is not and cannot be the factor to stop him. Can't you guys understand that, there's a big difference between STRUGGLING TO GET SOMETHING AND JUST GETTING SOMETHING WITHOUT ANY SENSE OF STRUGGLING? Take a look at the presidential candidates, many have struggled and are still struggling to get power but GEJA has never struggled to get anything in his life yet things just keep working out freely for him. So stop killing yourself because GEJA is not perturbed at all. There's something uncommon at work in his life which has distinguished from others. This same thing worked in Joseph and David and it is called the GRACE OF GOD. Haven't you guys heard that Whom God Has Blessed No Man, NOT EVEN YOU Can Curse. That is Grace at work.