trae_z:

make una dey try use Una brain now. It's obvious that provision was also made for state dinners and the likes when the presidency hostes guest as is expected when people come to see their elected representatives.

Rhino.5dm:

This budget was prepared by Yar Adua, so all you ignorants criticizing GEJ should have rethink. Besides, Aso Rock is a community. Infact, that amount is too small for Nigerian president. How much Obama dey chop/day? How much be common 1 billion wey people dey cry for? Wretched Nigerians!!

Evil Brain:

Mr. President is actually doing the right thing by removing the subsidy instead of cutting wasteful spending. You see, when the subsidy goes, the prices of food and other essentials will shoot up, and many of the poorest Nigerians will starve to death thus pushing our per capita income up.

If he reduces government spending, then the poiticians, contractors and other government hangers-on will make far less money, pushing our per capita income down. Perhaps Mr. President should invest whats left of the subsidy savings in bullets and Nazi style gas chambers to eliminate the poor faster and more humanely, while at the same time boosting the economy. This will also solve the housing problem in our major cities.

We need radical new ideas to move Nigeria forwards.

rebranded:



Shut up! thats about 2.7million a day that is ridiculous. . what are they eating even if its 10 cows a day. .You cant compare America to Nigeria, at least the poor still get food stamps, we have millions of people starving here barely able to get 2 square meals and you justify this wastefulness

Rhino.5dm:

This budget was prepared by Yar Adua, so all you ignorants criticizing GEJ should have rethink. Besides, Aso Rock is a community. Infact, that amount is too small for Nigerian president. How much Obama dey chop/day? How much be common 1 billion wey people dey cry for? Wretched Nigerians!!

VoodooDoll:

I believe Rhino is being sarcastic.

Funkymallam:

This is terrible, what on earth are they eating?
But come to think of it, if the senate approves this, that means other occupants of aso rock have been having similar budget and approvals. This is generating much anger and so should it because it was made public.
Only God knws hw much is for funiture allowance(i wonder the need for that yearly, even d senate n house of assembly is guilty of this).
Medical allowances, wardrope allowance, leave allowance and so on.

@Gbawe. Sure, all stomach r equal but some are more equal than others, just as u also gather d crumbs frm BAT and BRF's table, only God knws hw large and tasty that is. (those that live in glass house dnt throw stones).
U have expertly evaded all d thread about d lekki toll brouhahahaha and we all know y.

@op. Dis country is really sick and really need urgent cleansening.

Rhino.5dm:

This budget was prepared by Yar Adua, so all you ignorants criticizing GEJ should have rethink. Besides, Aso Rock is a community. Infact, that amount is too small for Nigerian president. How much Obama dey chop/day? How much be common 1 billion wey people dey cry for? Wretched Nigerians!!

Evil Brain:

Guy, seriously, are you rètarded? Are you aware that Jonathan has been head of state for nearly 2 years now? Did Yar'Adua prepare this budget in the grave?

And WTF do you mean "how much be common 1 billion"? Are you not aware that Jonathan used lack of funds to justify something that will make life far harder for the vast majority of Nigerians next year?do you know what 1 billion will do if spent on something, anything sensible? Do you know how many Nigerian children die every year form lack of N200 antimalarials?

Also, do you think that food is the only inflated item on the budget? And WTF does Obama have to do with anything? If Obama started eating shît, would you tell Jonathan to start doing it too?

Your post suggests a level of rètardation that is simply impossible for one human to possess so I have to conclude that you think this way because you are a beneficiary of government corruption.

alj_harem:



To be honest, I don't understand why everyone is blaming GEJ for this.

This sort of spending on food started from Abacha era down to OBJ etc

GEJ is just following their footsteps.

The only reason why I am a bit upset about this is because of the removal of subsidy which was meant to save the country money. That is all

If GEJ spends more, na him wahala be that

alj_harem:


To be honest, I don't understand why everyone is blaming GEJ for this.

This sort of spending on food started from Abacha era down to OBJ etc

GEJ is just following their footsteps.

The only reason why I am a bit upset about this is because of the removal of subsidy which was meant to save the country money. That is all

If GEJ spends more, na him wahala be that

ziccoit:

@alj_harem. That is why GEJ will never be a ' fresh air' as believed in some quarters. GEJ even appears worse.
Must he maintain a dangerous way of life he inherited from his predecessors? No

An incorruptible man

   A major anti-corruption drive began in 1987. The tribunal showed Captain Thomas Sankara to have a salary of only $450 a month and his most valuable possessions to be a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. He was the world’s poorest president.

  [size=14pt] Sankara refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.[/size]

   When asked why he had let it be known that he did not want his portrait hung in public places, as is the norm for other African leaders (and as Blaise Compaoré does now), Sankara said ‘There are seven million Thomas Sankaras’.

Gbawe:

Alhaji, what you must understand is that outstanding leaders are the ones who birth reform and change[b] that brings evolution, advancement and progress[/b]. Outstanding leaders, born to lead, always eschew deleterious practices of the past or do things appropriate to the conditions of the day. We saw David Cameron deciding to fly on commercial flights because Britons, his people, were feeling the effects of the credit crunch.

A reforming President will understand the concept of self-sacrifice and cost-cutting- especially applied to a Nation being ruined by wanton profligacy and sheer wastefulness. Jonathan should routinely move away from the wasteful practices of the Politicians before him because those guys are the last dinosaurs from a world that is fast becoming extinct. I.e the world in which a few folks, undeservingly award so much to themselves while others, equally entitled to the common source of wealth, get nothing.

ziccoit:

@alj_harem. That is why GEJ will never be a ' fresh air' as believed in some quarters. GEJ even appears worse.
Must he maintain a dangerous way of life he inherited from his predecessors? No

Funkymallam:

This is terrible, what on earth are they eating?
But come to think of it, if the senate approves this, that means other occupants of aso rock have been having similar budget and approvals. This is generating much anger and so should it because it was made public.
Only God knws hw much is for funiture allowance(i wonder the need for that yearly, even d senate n house of assembly is guilty of this).
Medical allowances, wardrope allowance, leave allowance and so on.

@Gbawe. Sure, all stomach r equal but some are more equal than others, just as u also gather d crumbs frm BAT and BRF's table, only God knws hw large and tasty that is. (those that live in glass house dnt throw stones).
U have expertly evaded all d thread about d lekki toll brouhahahaha and we all know y.

@op. Dis country is really sick and really need urgent cleansening.

Evil Brain:

So if OBJ had killed and eaten a baby every year, it would be okay by you if Jonathan followed in his footsteps? You think Jonathan would have no choice but to eat babies if his predecessors also did it?

You are using nursery school logic to defend the indefensible. Just because Chinedu sucks his thumb doesn't make it okay for you to do it.

This kind of waste is simply wrong. It is especially reprehensible when you consider the austerity measures that the very same same budget implements for the majority of Nigerians who are already struggling to stay above water. There is no excuse.

Evil Brain:

Sarcasm fail.

I actually typed out a realy nasty reply to this before I realized that no one could possible be this rètarded so it mast have been sarcasm. I hope I pressed Esc on time.

alj_harem:

Correct sir, it is wrong but saying it as if he started it and blaming him for everything is also wrong.

He is also feeding some people as well. People in the food industry in Nigeria would gain millions from this as well.

This takes me back to fuel subsidy.

Gbawe:

Alhaji, what many must understand is that ordinary Nigerians went out of their way to gamble on GEJ because they believed he was different. If you listened to many comments before the election, you will note that Nigerians were uniformly saying GEJ is a "departure" from the past. "Fresh air" was thus coined.

When his actual practices and policies have not demonstrated this "departure from the past" do you not expect folks to be bitterly disappointed and especially scathing in their condemnation? It is like being duped. You feel really cheap and silly. I am betting that is how many Nigerians feel right now and this is why criticism of GEJ is non-stop. Nigerians naively believed in this man, even when they had no reason to, in an almost childlike and biblical manner. They posited his "divine" rise to the top meant he must be voted for by all means against the "demons". Now they only have a worsening nation to show for their childish abandonment of critical and pragmatic decision making.

alj_harem:

Correct sir, it is wrong but saying it as if he started it and blaming him for everything is also wrong.

He is also feeding some people as well. People in the food industry in Nigeria would gain millions from this as well.

This takes me back to fuel subsidy.

alj_harem:

ah egbon gbawe. I understand perfectly what you mean. although I myself, as a gullible Nigerian I rather give him more time although he has spent 2 years, but I still believe we should give him more time until 2015 so they would not persecute una die.

Funkymallam:

Correct aboki na, the thing here is that this is the first time the amount is being made public, if other allowances are also publicized, there will b an evolution-like uproar.
Its this department 'presidential food' that made Sen. Dr. Andy Uba what he is today, remember, he was the SA to OBJ on domestic matters.
If u knw hw many ppl feed fat frm dat 'contract' and u better be gud to dem, rather than joke with what u eat.
Still not making up xcuses for dem, they need to start reforming from there, i think there are ppl that need to leave tha 'food department'.
Do the rigth thing Oga Jona!

Gbawe:

My brother, na so OOO. I can imagine the usual suspect thinking to themselves: "these evil Yorobu folks are at it again. When OBJ was enjoying the same food in Aso Rock they did not complain".