Opposition built on lies is bound to collapse, the actual amount approved for the 2010 independence was 6.9bn, slashed from 16bn after the national assembly complained about the outrageous amount. The directive was contained in a letter sent to the national assembly in July 2010.

http://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/29838/1/50th-anniversary-jonathan-caves-in-to-pressure-sla.html

Nairalanders can recall that there was an outcry in 2010 when a supplementary budget was sent to the national assembly with 10bn appearing for nigeria's 50th anniversary. The then information minister Dora Akunyili had to come out to defend it saying the anniversary budget was 62 million which was approved by Yar Adua, but that the budget didn't capture the jubilee celebration hence Jonathan approved the 10bn based on a so called recommendation from a committee set up by the late Yar Adua (a recommendation that wasn't approved by Yar Adua till his deat). Akunyili broke down the 10bn as follows;

N950 million was budgeted for anniversary parade including march past, fleet review and aerial displays, while another N350 million will be expended on national unity torch and tour.

The first Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan will spend N50 million for special visits to special homes, orphanages, prisons and selected hospitals, while N20 million will be used to sponsor a special session of the National Children Parliament. Another N20 million will used to organise a party for 1000 children.
The government will further spend N40 million to organise a presidential banquet, N50 million for calisthenics performance, N310 million for cultural, historical and military exhibitions while another N40 million will go for what the government called “food week.”

Other expenses of the 50th anniversary birthday bash include N320 million on secretariat equipment, accommodation, logistics and utilities while N30 million is budgeted for the designing and unveiling of the 50th anniversary logo. Similarly, the Ministry of Information and Communications will spend N1.2 billion for insertion of special reports on Nigeria in both local and international media, another N320 million will be spent on jingles, adverts, billboards, documentary and publicity, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will receive N105 million for an undisclosed expenditure.

To mark the 50th independence anniversary, the government has also budgeted N700 million to accommodate and transport special guests both from within and outside the country. Another N450 million will be used to finance the production of branded souvenirs and gift items for foreign heads of state and to erect a coat of arms on Aso Rock.
Also as part of the bash, a variety gala night and fireworks will gulp N210 million naira; an international friendly football match and local competition will gulp N200 million while event managers and producers will take home N120 million naira.

Designing and publication of a compendium on Nigeria will cost N400 million, while a similar one on the legislature will cost N150 million and a compendium on the judiciary will cost N50 million. Commissioning of the golden jubilee plaza will cost N10 million naira; while designing, construction and mounting of Tower of Unity in the 36 states of the Federation will gulp another N540 million. Debates, essays, conferences, lectures, and a colloquium will gulp yet another N150 million; musical concerts and carnivals in the 6 geo-political zones will cost N60 million; durbar, masquerades and cultural dances will consume N100 million and designing and construction of 10 symbolic monuments of founding fathers of Nigeria will swallow up N80 million naira.

A memory tone at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos will consume N40 million, security and protocol will cost N500 million naira while N25 million has been budgeted for medicals during the same anniversary.
. . . . . .lalasticlala, ishilove

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ok, il be back to read and comment when we reach.

Jona or Ex minister, oya reply!!

Who we go com believe like this?

You can also click on this for me
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Truth cannot be hidden

https://www.nairaland.com/464049/budget-jump-nigeria-50-yaradua

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op go and the read text of the release, they replied to El-Rufai misleading information of spending N64 billion between 2011 and 2015 for independence anniversary, they never made mention of 2010.

Dat GEJ na thief joor

Mehn..... No matter how APC will dig this.... 10billion must have been disbursed to meet other functions as well.... And let's relax about this whole stuff... Buhari will celebrate three more independent celebrations.... And we'll see if his expenses will either reduce or increase... Either way... APC should face their lies over kogi gubernator's campaign promise....


Incase this hit FP.... Yana was here!


Thanks to the super-mod dat unbanned me.... More grace to ur elbow!

Make una dey exchange words and leave the country routine e no kuku concern me again.

Because una just dey make we wey be the poor masses hate each other while una dey there dey enjoy our country money.

Hey Figures are not supposed to lie. Why cant we have uncontroversial records in our public institutions? Our private sectors have, fairly, been keeping good records in the last decade yet our government establishments have refused to imbibe probity, clarity, and modern technology in our record keeping.

I am aware the Lagos state government, at a time, were having all government transactions posted online. This should be adopted as the national norm. We need to embrace information technology in all our public institution. Information and data on paper are good but are just too slow to access and preserve for today's demands.

For example the NASS is supposed to have online archive of details of all approved spending. All government agencies should also endeavor to keep secured electronic records of all transactions. The technologies to do this are already in use in Nigerian banks and private institutions for almost a decade now.

INTROVERT:
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ok, il be back to read and comment when we reach.

I don't expect you to believe this.. You have believed the clueless one 100%

Lalastical pls front page..
My memory is still fresh with what happened then.. The outcry and foreign outburst..

Do dey think they will Continue fooling us after loosing the election.

God forbid.. Its Only d wailing Wailers that will still believe GEJ in their full foolery.

Why are you vibrating and foaming at same time.

The government and all its agencies are with APC and Dr. Abubakar Olanrewaju Sulaiman, Immediate past Minister Deputy Chairman, National Planning has asked APC to consult the books.

What is the reason for this thread when the Minister already differentiated the routine Anniversary from the Centenary thus:

Even though that of 2010 and 2011 are not handy now, but it should be known that they all fall within the same bracket as the one stated, except that the 2010 anniversary was a golden one when the country marked her 50 year of independence. But even then , not such outrageous sum was either budgeted or expended.

How will this help us as a nation Abeg all that has passed....we should move on and face what on ground.

This shows what APC is made up of and the type of supporters that follows them. They never read and comprehend because they have nothing to do with facts as a result of the convenant of lie and propaganda they are into with the devil. This is what he says on that 2010 which the writer is anchoring his lie on, 'Even
though that of 2010 and 2011 are not handy now,
but it should be known that they all fall within the
same bracket as the one stated, except that the
2010 anniversary was a golden one when the
country marked her 50 year of independence. So why not refute the facts and figures for the record, a breakdown of our spending for
this event between 2012 and 2104 goes thus;
2012-107.6million; 2013-45million and 2014 had
180million. So, the question here is where did the
billions as claimed by el-rufai emanate from? Above all,we challenge the Office of the
Government of the Federation (OSGF) to publish
these details for the consumption of the public.