taharqa: This is the exact excerpt from the report on what Cameron said (plz, pay particular attention to his exact words in " ":

redsun: The only way corruption can be checked is if the leaders regularly give detail accounts of the monies they generates and spends and for what
purposes. Anything short of that will mean gross irresponsibility which equals unchecked and endemic corruption that happens to be the order of the day in today's Nigeria. Although some of us see it as lesser evil,but all evil are evil,none is lesser and none should be condoned.
Public servants are obligated to deliver,live their wages,allowances and strict code of conducts,not privileges maim,destroy and loot with impunity.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has stated that the amount budgeted for LovePeddlers and rehabilitation of destitutes in the FCT 2013 budget is N150million and not N5 billion as reported in the media.

He therefore called on all residents of FCT and indeed, entire Nigerians to totally disregard the reports about the 2013 budget of FCT, especially as they pertain to destitute and LovePeddlers rehabilitation, saying they are outright misrepresentation of the facts and figures of the budget.

A statement signed by the Special Assistant (Media) to the FCT Minister, Mr. Nosike Ogbuenyi, made available to THISDAY yesterday said: “Following various misleading media reports arising from last Thursday’s Senate debate of the Federal Capital Territory Administration’s 2013 budgetary proposals purporting that the sum of N5billion was proposed for rehabilitation of LovePeddlers and destitute in Abuja, we are compelled to set the records straight as they concern the appropriation.”

According to the statement rehabilitation of destitutes and commercial sex workers (LovePeddlers) is part of the schedule of the Social Development Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).

“[b]However, the empirical truth is that the entire budget of the Social Development Secretariat for the 2013 fiscal year is N4.7billion only. Out of this amount, the sum of N931.3 million is for personnel cost; N1.6billion for overhead expenditure and N2.2billion for capital expenditure.
The sum of N150million only out of this amount is for evacuation and rehabilitation of destitute, LovePeddlers (commercial sex workers) and other vulnerable persons.”

The statement stated further that the duties of the social development secretariat are quite wide. “The mandate of the secretariat goes far beyond the task of rehabilitating LovePeddlers, beggars, hawkers and other groups of destitute in the FCT. The schedule of the Secretariat encompasses improvement of the economic well-being of FCT residents through the implementation of initiatives that help in the empowerment of all vulnerable persons and groups in the FCT,” it said.
“It is also part of the mandate of the Social Development Secretariat to provide succor and nurture for women, youths, children, widows and widowers in the FCT. The Secretariat equally provides welfare for persons with disability, orphans and the elderly. Other aspects of the mandate of the Secretariat include promoting sports and sporting activities in the FCT as well as harnessing the culture and tourism of the FCT. For instance, the Secretariat undertakes development of sports facilities and sporting talents hunt as well as management and upgrading sports facilities including the popular Old Parade Ground, Garki, Abuja[/b].

“Again, the fact that there are seven departments under the Social Development Secretariat attests to the widespread nature of its mandate. The departments under the Secretariat are Sports; Arts and Culture; Youths; Tourism; Gender; Welfare; and Administration. This fiscal year, 2013, the Secretariat is to commence the building of Community Sports Centres in all the six Area Councils (LGAs) of FCT beginning with Kuje, Kwali and Bwari Area Councils.

“It is ironical that the misleading reports about the budget for Social Development Secretariat are making wrong waves at a time when arrangements are being finalised for the commissioning this Tuesday, February 5, 2013, of the ultra-modern Youth Support Centre at Nyanya in Abuja Municipal Council built by the Secretariat. The centre has facilities for vocational training, ICT training, printing press, five-a side football pitch, basket ball court and others.”

Donmams: We will all know the truth in 2015. Nigerians unfortunately have no choice but to vote for Buhari who will investigate all these fools and send them to jail for 100 years.

[s]I will not dignify most of the insulting and childish submissions[/s] that Abati indulged in with a response other than to say that he told a shameless and pernicious lie when he wrote that as Minister of Aviation I ”shut down Port Harcourt Airport for two years” and ”allowed grass to grow all over it”

@taharqa
Of course, the 'Transparency issues ..which has made some progress' cos of some probes in the Oil industry and the 'new regulations' that the discoveries from such probes have spurned- ALMOST ALL are been/being done by GEJ's Govt.

taharqa: This is the exact excerpt from the report on what Cameron said (plz, pay particular attention to his exact words in " ":



This was my 'interpretation' of the above comment from Cameron in the comment that @Omo-Tier sheepishly responded to (rather, thought he was responding to):



Of course, the 'Transparency issues ..which has made some progress' cos of some probes in the Oil industry and the 'new regulations' that the discoveries from such probes have spurned- ALMOST ALL are been/being done by GEJ's Govt. It is GEJ that have ordered more than 5 probes on the extremely dark Oil industry which NO previous Nigerian Govt almost NEVER attempted; and He is the one one putting up new regulations and pushing the passage of the extremely critical PIB bill through the national assembly.
Let me restate for EMPHASIS that SO MUCH MORE still needs doing in this respect, as Cameron implies.



Now, this is the PROPAGANDISTS' 'interpretations' of the above comment of Cameron:

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Chose for yourself which 'interpretations' you believe to be closest to what Cameron said and/or intended.

taharqa:

LOL... The Musings of a FRUSTRATED pip.. NONSENSE, Complete and utter (Arrant) Nonsense.

ifihearam:

Shut up!!!!!!
So because he does not see things from your point of view makes him bad abi?

take dat: Thank God you wrote it was "your interpretation" to Cameron's submission which does not necessarily mean you are right nor wrong.

What are the necessary moves taken by this administration to clean up the oil and gas industry? As at today, the PIB still remains unpassed. The Ribadu report's white paper committee has taken longer than enough, the Idika Kalu's and those recommendations which does not need legal amendment to check the fraud in the industry but the president's order such as selling our crude oil allocation at cut down price and not selling directly to the refineries, NNPC making withdrawal at source and many others are still there with the country losing billions of dollar to government officials and their economic saboteur cronies. Reasons why Cameron through the G8 used Nigeria as a Case in Point!

How many government officials who connived with the subsidy thieves have been sacked or prosecuted? the PPPRA chairman during the fraud is aspiring to be PDP's BOT chairman, the executive secretary is still there The opaque dealings in NNPC continue as ever. Even the local content law still remains to be adhered to by operators.

Government's performance should be felt by the citizenry and not through the mouth of publicists!

eggheaders: inasmuch as their is no difference between today men and yesterday men.yesterday men are miles more intelligent and articule than today's men.men of today keep shying away from question ask by yesterday men.and are so allergic to criticism. only show today men are so dumb.it will make more sense for Today men to accept the debate of yesterday men.cause they look like crying babies once they can't defend all the allegations of yesterday men and only resulting to needless rhetoric.

Demdem adopts this posts .

taharqa:

LOL... The Musings of a FRUSTRATED pip.. NONSENSE, Complete and utter (Arrant) Nonsense.

Frank-C:
You know, the climax of this hypocrisy is that when I demand to know how Fashola spend monthly income of N40b, they will shout me down. All these later day saints are not interested in how OBJ spent the $16b power funds nor how IBB spend the $12b oil wind fall or even how Fani Kayode spent the aviation intervention funds or how much El-Rufai spent on each demolition activity in Abuja or how much Fashola spent on 'cleaning up' Oshodi. The target is clear- shoot the President down because he is not from the axis of power. They forgot to look at the new political map and see how much things have changed.

Is this really about accountability or about political gains? Not even the ACN or CPC peeps in the NA are talking about drastic amendment to the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile, i urge the President to get the CBN to publish the account statements of the Foreign reserves. I also urge him to push for fast track of the criminal cases in court including the ones against Fani Kayode and El-Rufai. Halliburton scandal should also be reopened. We need to know where this rain started beating us!

henrysam:
Your head is too correct. How many of these fraudulent acts were exposed during OBJ regime. It is only when you fall out with him OBJ that he will use EFCC to nab you. Obj theory then was chop and clean mouth and be smart about it, if you re caught I don't know you.