kenonze:
We held the power for over 13yrs
What exactly did we do down here in the South.
OBJ =8yrs
GEJ =6yrs


GEJ failed to carry out any meaningful project in his own village Otuoke talk little about Bayelsa or Other SS state.
OBJ did fairly better although withheld Lagos state allocation for yrs.

I really pray that the small portion allocated to Southern Nigeria will even be implemented.

shaddoww:
If it is to be according to d no of votes he got, den it should be
Northwest
Northeast
Southwest
Northcentral
South-south and
Southeast
So wat am seeing here though not fair isn't a true picture of wat Reno is painting.

SONofYORUBA:




Same ID.

Even if 100% of the budget goes to the SE, less them 20% of it will be utilized to developed the SE. SE politicians are the most corrupt and idle.

In all fairness, SW should have gotten most of the budget cake. We're overburdened with foreigners and immigrants.

anonimi:


If you are lucky you may be able to find him here =>



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IRAPADA:
most north central projects are in ABUJA,politics of bitterness from PDP is what led to that. their senators just fold their hands in the senate y other are sourcing for development for their people

SONofYORUBA:




Same ID.

Even if 100% of the budget goes to the SE, less them 20% of it will be utilized to developed the SE. SE politicians are the most corrupt and idle.

In all fairness, SW should have gotten most of the budget cake. We're overburdened with foreigners and immigrants.

SONofYORUBA:




Same ID.

Even if 100% of the budget goes to the SE, less them 20% of it will be utilized to developed the SE. SE politicians are the most corrupt and idle.

In all fairness, SW should have gotten most of the budget cake. We're overburdened with foreigners and immigrants.

shammah1:
I'm really not surprised at all. 97% to 5%.

Buhari is so wicked. Where is the true federalism? Most of Nigeria's resources comes from South - South. I ask, why won't IPOB & NDA etc continue their struggles to be freed from this curse?

I am from the North but I detest divisive and prejudice government who is bent on marginalization. This could cause more unrest in our country. Buhari & APC must reverse this act of wickedness ASAP.

Sadly, this is indeed a government of the North and for the North.

#Shame

abokibuhari:
I heard uncle Gbawe is in Osun state

An analysis of the 2014 Budget Proposal of Nigeria

By: OBO EFFANGA
On: January 22 2014
Budget 2014: Beyond heads and figures
By Obo Effanga.

As the National Assembly resumes for 2014, one of the key functions it is expected to dwell on is the consideration and passage of the budget proposal as prepared by the Executive. As citizens, we owe our country a duty to interrogate the contents of the proposed budget and offer our views. This, it is hoped, would help our parliamentarians, as our representatives, to make informed decisions when considering the proposal for passage.

One way to look at the budget proposal however is to consider what each of the heads and figures allocated means for our country and its development. Here are a few of those queries.

The first observation to make is that the budget proposal allocates 76.3 per cent to recurrent expenditure and just 23.7 per cent to capital expenditure. One interpretation of this is that the budget is meant to just keep the country and its institutions running with nothing spectacular to show for. A budget focused on massive development of infrastructure would assign more to capital rather than to recurrent which covers personnel and overhead costs.

There are however a few noticeable exceptions which are to be commended. These include agriculture and rural development that allocate N35.1bn to capital and N31.4bn to recurrent respectively; water resources, N30.6bn and N7.7bn; power N59bn and N3.3bn; transport, N29.3bn and N8.1bn; works, N100.1bn and N28.5bn; lands and housing, N12.8bn and N5.6 and aviation N26.1bn and N6.1bn.

The rest of the 42 Ministries, Departments and Agencies will spend more on their recurrent than on capital and in some instances the difference is so huge. Here are a few cases: The Ministry of Interior, which is expected to spend N144.7bn in recurrent and just N6.29bn on capital; Police formation and commands, N285.5bn and N6.79bn; Education including UBEC, N443.9bn and N49.5bn and Health, N216.4bn and N46.3bn.

Zeroing in on the Interior Ministry’s budget shows that the Prisons Service would spend N45.2bn on recurrent and a mere N2.3bn on capital. With such lopsided allocation, it is doubtful if our prisons infrastructure would be revamped from their current state of dilapidation and dehumanisation this year. Equally difficult to carry out would be construction of new prisons to decongest the present number, even as the country has just signed a deal with the United Kingdom that might see the repatriation of more than 600 Nigerians serving jail terms in the UK to come home to complete their sentences.

But why is the recurrent expenditure so huge? Perhaps, we should look at what typically appears under the recurrent expenditure, particularly under the overhead costs. Here are a few of such expenditure heads which need more explanation to the Nigerian public. What do we mean by “Welfare packages”, which will gulp as much as N40.4m in the headquarters of the Ministry of Water Resources? Please note that the said figure is not for the entire ministry and agencies under it, rather for the headquarters. Welfare package typically appears in the budget of every MDA and one wonders who audits this spending. How is the money disbursed, to whom and under what circumstances? Who determines the quantum to be disbursed in every office? Under what rules of engagement or laws did we turn our government offices to welfare package disbursers? This budget head is one that needs to be checked or discouraged as it is susceptible to abuse and corruption.

Other heads of interest demanding explanation include “Cleaning and fumigation services” (for which the Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would spend N201.7m and the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs will spend N25m on) and “Anniversaries and celebrations (for which the Ministry of Women Affairs will spend N71.6m)”. There are also budgetary heads for “Printing of security documents”; “Printing of non-security documents”; “Field and camping materials supplies” (N4.39m in the Ministry of Women Affairs); “Uniforms and other clothing”; “Refreshments and meals” (N16.7m in the Ministry of Women Affairs); “Honorarium and sitting allowance” and “consultancy services for budget preparation” (N8.36m in the Ministry of Women Affairs). This last bit suggests that the Ministry of Women Affairs has no internal personnel to prepare its budget for the year and for that reason it would procure consultant(s) to help it do so and it would then part with N8.36m.

There are even more interesting, or intriguing budgetary provisions elsewhere, including the State House. For instance, the State House Headquarters plans to purchase an embalming machine at the cost of N1.65m and a hydraulic post-mortem table at N4m. What morbid humour! Of course, we know what embalmment and post-mortem are about, but in the State House Headquarters? No doubt, there is a clinic in the State House, but I am not sure that the clinic caters for a very large number of clients requiring it to have every kind of specialised units including a mortuary. I am sure any such requirement for embalmment and post-mortem would not be routine and frequently required in a clinic in the State House and thus the said equipment cannot be seen as necessities. If and when such needs arise, referral could be made to larger state hospitals like the National Hospital. But apparently, our State House functions as an integrated town that must have every facility within. After all, it has its own church (chapel) and mosque and even a zoo where N8m would be spent to upgrade and maintain it and an additional sum of N14.5m would be spent to purchase two beasts, all for the pleasure of its privileged patrons. And this is after we budgeted N7.5m for wildlife conservation in the State House last year.

Still in the State House, there is a plan to spend N76.3m to purchase “crested cutlery, flatware and glassware”. Now, isn’t that too much to spend on those items, for a State House that has existed for years and been playing host to several dinners? We don’t dispose of dinnerware on a yearly basis, do we?

General maintenance in the State House will cost N1.19bn of which N138.9 will go for motor vehicle and transport equipment maintenance; N907m for office and residential building maintenance; N17.4m for office furniture maintenance and N40m to maintain office and IT equipment (that comes to spending more than N3m each month to maintain office and IT equipment in the office of the President). Recalling that only last year, we budgeted N90.9m for this same item, it is bewildering why we plan to spend so much this year. Yet, this is aside N188.3m to be spent on office stationery and computer consumables (for which we budgeted N507.9m last year).

A peep into the budget for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs brings its own excitement or outrage. For instance, we plan to spend money for the maintenance of plants and generators in several of our foreign missions, including the one in London. It’s with the same incredulity that we notice the plan to spend money in fuelling boats and aircraft in virtually all of our foreign missions. As an example, we plan to spend N2.38m and N1.78m respectively for the above services in our Foreign Mission in Abidjan. As earlier mentioned, the foreign ministry’s headquarters would part with N201.7m for fumigation and cleaning services during the year.

There is this entry of N100m for the maintenance of Nigeria’s seat in the UN Security Council. Pray, what does that come to? One would think that since we have a permanent representative to the UN, that office would be responsible for attending Security Council meetings, which cost would be borne by the UN anyway. So, what would the N100m be used for?

Other interesting budgetary provisions proposed in this ministry include N40m for “global power on women’s empowerment, HIV and SRHR’ and N9m to be spent by one of its agencies, the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution for “building democracy as an instrument of peace”. And although every MDA budgets for health insurance subscription as well as medicals, there is still this curious budgetary head in the foreign affairs ministry known as “cost of medical treatment for Mrs. XYZ (I have withheld the real names) at St. Andrews Burns Service at Broomfield Hospital” for the sum of N49.76m. I am just curious why an individual’s name is listed in a federal budget as a spending. Who is the person? Why is this cost not subsumed in other medical costs or covered by insurance?

Next, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to spend N834.4m to purchase and freight 40 “representational cars” to 40 of our foreign missions. This translates to N20.86m as average cost for the cars. Wouldn’t this cost be reduced if these cars are bought in the locations they are to be used?

No doubt, the above are just some of the numerous line items in the budget proposal that one could query, not necessarily because they are fake, but sometimes because they don’t appear to show prudence in the management of our resources.

As the National Assembly considers the budget, it is hoped that the lawmakers would be detailed enough to query these and more bogus and phoney entries in the Appropriation Bill.

•Effanga, a governance specialist based in Abuja, wrote in via obo.effanga@gmail.com

- See more at: http://m.punchng.com/opinion/budget-2014-beyond-heads-and-figures/#sthash.nGNkBXu1.dpuf

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/153138-investigation-inside-nigerias-scandalous-2014-budget.html

Bolustic:
So where are the concrete results of the humongous allocations and numerous appointments the SE got under the fedora doffing PhD holder?

bashydemy1:
What did GEJ give to SE during his tenure? Just list what he did if he can match this.

chiedu7:

My apologies finest

knostbrown01:
Omokri is fearless, see other thing he posted here

http://freedomnewsng..nl/2016/08/97-versus-5-reno-omokri-reacts-to.html

amtalkin:


So you are expecting me to list all GEJ did for Igbos.

Seriously you think we just love him for mouth

I see you are seriously fighting for your social media agent of change plate of rice, the year is coming to an end.... i see the hustle is real.

searchiing4love:
Reno is just a petty fool. The north has the biggest land mass and population in the country and for the fact that they held power for over 30 years, they deserve the lion share of the nation's resources followed by the south west. If we consider the voting patterns in the last election, the north and south west deserves most cos they voted the current government. The oil is our collective wealth so no one gives a damn about which region produces it as long as we remain one Nigeria

simpleseyi:
The APC members representing the North in the National Assembly spoke on behalf of their people and got several capital projects to develop their region while PDP members representing the South-East and South South made sure that capital projects like the Lagos-Calabar rail was removed from the budget in order to fight themselves while thinking that they were fighting Buhari.

SONofYORUBA:


Do the money go to Northern or Eastern individuals. Use sense.

kenonze:
We held the power for over 13yrs
What exactly did we do down here in the South.
OBJ =8yrs
GEJ =6yrs


GEJ failed to carry out any meaningful project in his own village Otuoke talk little about Bayelsa or Other SS state.
OBJ did fairly better although withheld Lagos state allocation for yrs.

I really pray that the small portion allocated to Southern Nigeria will even be implemented.

Sweetle:
When we keep saying that there's so much injustice in this country they say we are wailing.

Thank you Channels TV, figures don't lie.

Everyone can see that allocation to the SS where bulk of the nations revenue comes from is less than the 97% regions.

This is what Buhari has turned Nigeria into.

For those against Biafra or Niger Delta Republic you can see that Buhari has already divided this country into 97% & 5%.

I really pity the Niger Delta people, they have been so cheated in this country.

Sweetle:
When we keep saying that there's so much injustice in this country they say we are wailing.

Thank you Channels TV, figures don't lie.

Everyone can see that allocation to the SS where bulk of the nations revenue comes from is less than the 97% regions.

This is what Buhari has turned Nigeria into.

For those against Biafra or Niger Delta Republic you can see that Buhari has already divided this country into 97% & 5%.

I really pity the Niger Delta people, they have been so cheated in this country.

Genius100:
This is silliness.

Northeast and Northwest gave Buhari way more votes than Northcentral. Northeast gave Buhari more votes than Southwest. So Reno's narrative is wrong.

Bigot Omokri need to STFU. He should list the projects instead of trying to fool people by taking the numbers out of context.

The whole of Nigeria benefit from power projects in Kainji Dam for instance..

amtalkin:
And some people wonder while Igbos hate him now and before election.

If he like let him give 100% of the Nigerian budget to the North, we will still be ahead of them
[size=16pt]#FACT[/size]

kolexy:


Do you know North Central comprises the states surrounding Abuja; Kogi, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger and Benue States. These are not core Northern States.