From Retardeen countryman and fellow pdp member.

Below is an articulation of the real reasons behind the demonstrations as espoused by Mr. Bruce.
• There are 70 Ministers at the National level
• There are over 20 Special Advisers to the President
• Every Minister is entitled to 4 Special Assistants
• The Senate President earns 88 Million Naira ($ 533,333 or GH¢ 880,000) monthly
• His Deputy Earns 55 Million Naira ($333,333 or GH¢ 550,000) monthly
• Senators take home 14 Million naira ($84,848 or GH¢ 140,000) monthly
• It takes 1.4 Billion Naira ($8,484,848 or GH¢ 14,000,000) to maintain the National Assembly annually (25% of Nigeria’s GDP is used to feed people who only sit Tuesday – Thursday)
• Our Governors exhibit such level of opulence shunned by the richest nations in the world
• Our 2012 budget has a deficit component to it. We are supposed to borrow about 1.6 Trillion Naira ($9,696,969,696 or GH¢16,000,000,000). The National Assembly will be paid from that!
• Aso Rock will use 1 Billion Naira ($6,060,606 or GH¢ 10,000,000) of it to eat!
• Aso Rock will use another 1 Billion Naira ($6,060,606 or GH¢ 10,000,000) to fuel generators.
• The Vice President will use 58 Million Naira ($351,515 or GH¢ 580,000) to buy newspapers
• The office of Patience Jonathan (First Lady) will use 500 Million Naira ($3,030,303 or GH¢ 5,000,000) to speak bad English to you.
• We will spend close to 500 Billion Naira ($3,030,303,030 or GH¢ 5,000,000,000) on International Travels
• Your hospitals will have no drugs
• Your schools will still have no quality to train a world class scholar
• Your roads will still be death traps
• You will still be a local government unto yourself, providing water, security, power and social security!

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Beaf:

If there is corruption, of course that should be dealt with, but rumour mongering is a disease.

These figures are true sir. Go to the website of the Ministry of Finance and scroll through the Presidency's budget. So, I really doubt they are just rumours

^^^ those bastards seems to have removed it from their site the last time i checked (stand to be corrected though) however i did PDF the document in one of my lappys. will av to pick it up.

what sort of lubricant? just curious

http://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/2012_budget_pro_details/1.%20Summary_Presidency1.pdf

Figures from the budget office

Thank u

Extracted this from the budget sheet.

PURCHASE OF COMPUTER & ACCESSORIES: 90 HP DESKTOPS @N300,000 = N27,000,000; (II). 20 HP PRINTERS @ N150,000 = N3,000,000; (III). 60 NOS. UPS @ N55,000 = N3,300,000; (IV). 75 NOS. HP LAPTOPS @ N314,000 = N23,550,000 AND (V). 10 NOS. SCANNERS @ N190,000 = N1,900,000.

HP desktop normally 70k is now 300k each. HP printer at 30k each is now 150k. UPS is normally sold 20k. HP lapto at 314k each. I have give up on this govt

Also, if you scroll up the budget, another 265 million was allocated for computers. There is a lot of redundancy in the budget.

1) Who is behind the lies that GEJ budgetted 1 billion naira for his food.
This was the message sold to protesters at Ojota and Femi Falana had even
done one abracadabra arithmetics to arrive at a figure of 1million per meal which
the crowd roared in anger against GEJ.

No one is behind nothing fella, it's in the budget . . . I have a copy of it and if only you'll slow down to read over again, the[b] N293m[/b] is NOT meant for complete feeding rather it is stated there as[b]" refreshment"[/b].

N477M for Foodstuffs/catering materials supplies

Plus another N104M for Foodstuffs/catering materials supplies (for personnel)

Plus N45M for kitchen utensils (of course there were none there before. . lol)

Add cooking Gas N6m plus miscellaneous it's all there, look it up.

Plus they will pay NEPA N85M and Water N42M. . .Newspaper N45m, Magazines N8.7m

Another one:

PURCHASE OF E-GOVT. OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT: WEB PORTAL FOR E-GOVERNMENT NIGER PORTAL DESIGNS, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION @ N70,000,000; II). E-GOVERNMENT TRAINING FOR PRINCIPAL STAFF @ N48,390,820

Some more:

ACQUISITION, UPGRADING AND FURNISHING OF VP'S GUEST HOUSE AT AGUDA at 230 million naira

PROCUREMENT OF STATE HOUSE VETERINARY CLINIC EQUIPMENT (X-RAYS MACHINE, ACCESSORIES & SETTING UP OF RADIOLOGY SECTION): X-RAYS MACHINE, ACCESSORIES AND SETTING UP OF RADIOLOGY SECTION = N20,800,500 For their DOGS

PURCHASE OF BOOKS FOR STATE HOUSE MAIN LIBRARY at 14 million naira

UPGRADE OF VILLA FACILITIES: EXTENSION OF VILLA GATES 2, 7 & 11 @ N75,960,819.50; EXTENSION OF POWER SUPPLY TO THE SH CENTRAL STORE @ N35,913,032.40; EXTENSION OF UPS POWER SOURCE TO PRESIDENTIAL GUEST HOUSE NO. 7, VILLA @ N57,427,205.20; OVERHAULING OF POWER HOUSE GENERATOR SETS 1 & 2 @ 127, 500,000; RENOVATION AND REFURBISHING OF THE FAMILY WING OF THE MAIN RESIDENCE @ N512,375,533.00; LAND RECLAMATION AT THE SHMC @ N385,350,320.00; REHABILITATION OF TRANSFORMER SUB-STATION IN THE VILLA @ N101,671,574.78, EXTENSION/EXPANSION OF STATE HOUSE CAR PARKS @ N97,950,710.50 AND PROVISION OF COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FOR THE VILLA, DODAN BARRACKS, MARINA AND VP'S GUEST HOUSE IN LAGOS @ N108,000,000.00.

EXTENSION/PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL OFFICES FOR THE PRESIDENT at 1.8 billion

REPLACEMENT OF AGED VEHICLES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL GROUND FLEET (PGF): PROCUREMENT OF 2 NO. TREATED MERCEDES BENZ SALOON 600 E GUARD FOR USE BY THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT @ N 140,000,000 EACH; (II). 5 NOS. MERC BENZ SALOON 350 (SEMI PLAIN) @ N25,000,000, (III). 10 NOS JEEPS (ASSORTED - RANGE ROVER, PRADO AND LAND CRUISER) @ N10,000,000 EACH AND PROCUREMENT OF ACCESSORIES AND MAINTENANCE EQUIPT FOR GUARD VEHICLES @ N25,000,000.

INSTALLATION OF UPS FACILITIES AT THE VICE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE at 116 million. UPS oh

VP and his guest house seems to get an upgrade every year na wa o

Extracted this from the budget sheet.

PURCHASE OF COMPUTER & ACCESSORIES: 90 HP DESKTOPS @N300,000 = N27,000,000; (II). 20 HP PRINTERS @ N150,000 = N3,000,000; (III). 60 NOS. UPS @ N55,000 = N3,300,000; (IV). 75 NOS. HP LAPTOPS @ N314,000 = N23,550,000 AND (V). 10 NOS. SCANNERS @ N190,000 = N1,900,000.

HP desktop normally 70k is now 300k each. HP printer at 30k each is now 150k. UPS is normally sold 20k. HP lapto at 314k each. I have give up on this govt

I guess they are insuring the laptops against boko haram what with the bombs getting closer and closer

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Re: Aso Rock To Spend N18.36BN On Fuel & Lubricants This Year
« #9 on: Today at 09:23:12 AM »
It tell us that these people dont have anything to offer the populace. If they can earnmark such huge amount for fuelling and lubricating(what?), it means all their promises on power can work, dat's why they ve made adequate provision for themselves in the budget at the expense of the poor masses.

Here is a simple question for you. How much more transparent is this Administration than others before it? Please do not say anything of FOI in your response.

nwanna89:

Extracted this from the budget sheet.
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PURCHASE OF COMPUTER & ACCESSORIES: 90 HP DESKTOPS @N300,000 = N27,000,000; (II). 20 HP PRINTERS @ N150,000 = N3,000,000; (III). 60 NOS. UPS @ N55,000 = N3,300,000; (IV). 75 NOS. HP LAPTOPS @ N314,000 = N23,550,000 AND (V). 10 NOS. SCANNERS @ N190,000 = N1,900,000.
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HP desktop normally 70k is now 300k each. HP printer at 30k each is now 150k. UPS is normally sold 20k. HP lapto at 314k each. I have give up on this govt

Also, if you scroll up the budget, another 265 million was allocated for computers. There is a lot of redundancy in the budget.

Look a last year's budget, you will likely find the same.

Budgeting certain amount for an expenditure is not a crime provided there is detailed breakdown of how the figure was arrived at. However, the onus is incumbent on the Legislators who are to question whoever comes up to defend such ridiculous proposal. Secondly there should be a comparism to how much was approved previously and how they were spent.

Last year the Presidency refused to sign into law the annual budget because the Legislators approved 230 BN for themselves which was later reduced to 130 BN. It not compulsory that they amount should be approved.

see how they're sharing our money among themselves. They dnt even believe in the SURE they want us to believe.

Kobojunkie:

Look a last year's budget, you will likely find the same.

Yes very likely. And our national assembly which is there to represent the people, approves it

what a waste of resources,
SMH , hisses and walks away,