*Pays outstanding N600 billion owed to fuel marketers in subsidy payments

By Levinus Nwabughiogu

ABUJA – As a way of cushioning the effect of poverty and hunger in the land, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh to release  10,000 tons of grains from the national strategic grains reserves for national distribution.

The directive was also a counter measure to the current astronomic prices of goods and seeming exploitation within the market system. The president also directed the agriculture minister “to ensure that all the able-bodied men and women in IDP camps be assisted to return to farming immediately.”

President Buhari’s directive followed a submission by a faction of the opposition Conference of Nigerian Political Parties,CNPP, that Nigerians under the president’s watch were facing unprecedented hardship. President’s charge was contained in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.

Shehu in the statement also stated that the president upon assumption of office paid off accumulated subsidy debts of N600 billion owed to marketers. This was as he stated that there were social programmes captured in the 2016 budgets to Bette the lot of Nigerians. He refuted claims that the presidency would allow Nigerians to suffer.

The statement read in part:


“The Presidency however asserts that the devastation of the economy was caused by the Boko Haram insurgency, corruption and the lack of planning by the past administrations and one that should not be blamed on the Change Agenda of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

“The Presidency firmly rejects the insinuations that poverty and lack are products of the Change mantra. “This should be dismissed as an erroneous and misplaced opposition criticism.

The President understands the pain and the cries of the citizens of this country and he is spending sleepless nights over how he can make life better for everyone. “Contrary to assertions by a faction of the opposition Conference of Nigerian Political Parties,CNPP, the President’s energy and focus are on changing the life of Nigerians, with a view to making it better than he met it.

“Change is a process. Change does not happen overnight. Change can be inconvenient. Change sometimes comes with pain. Over the past year, the government has been working night and day to deliver on its promise of change to Nigerians, and the painful process is still ongoing.

“This is work in progress. As life gradually returns to normal in much of the country and the northeast in particular, agriculture will resume and traders from neighbouring African countries will once again feel safe to do business with us–yet another boost for our economy.

“But it Is only when we appreciate where we are coming that we will grasp the full meaning and essence of what the ongoing journey entails.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/hunger-buhari-orders-release-10000-tons-grains/

This APC Government is the most Hypocritical Government in History. They've released strategic grain reserve kept by GEJ's FG yet they say they inherited rot. GEJ never owed salaries and also left enough for the new Govt. to bail out States yet they say they inherited rot. Is it power supply or fuel supply, free & fair elections, infrastructure etc yet they say they inherited rot. I just hate this govt.

Good one.

Subsidy is a scam, according to dullardkpo yet he is reported to have paid the same thing he criticised.
The food another person saved, he is eating without saving any. No plan for the future.

Grains for ....... we don turn birds for buhari eye
Its officially finished

hunger every where

It seems that blaming everythings or everybody are in the DNA of all APC carrier. If you want to work , work and stop blaming. Nigerians are wiser now .

Fulani fool.
Wasting other people's savings.

Fayose my man....

Your stomach infrastructure has gotten to the federal level.
Bubu is now following your footsteps...

NIGERIANS - From human beings to frustrated beings to birds..

They will soon turn us to mosquitoes...
Giant Mosquitoes Of Africa. ..

nigerians have now become fowls.

Distribution will make or mar this gesture

Chai

So it begins! Buhari and APC sharing grains saved by PDP mis rule of 16 years? Hope Nigerians won't queue for daily rations of sugar and salt?

Lalasticlala oya do the needful.

They will soon denying this statement. Just wait and see.

Abeg buhari should just fly off. He should go to amazon forest or visit Bermuda triangle or take a vacation to Mars. I see no difference when he's in the country or outside.

Ah just when I need some grains to prepare a good dog meal. How I wish there's fish bone in the reserve also.

Are we in EGYPT?

gods of Egypt!


So Buhari is now following Fayose's footsteps

you claimed you've paid for subsidy...yet the common man whose livelihood is hinged on availability of petrol will spend hours, wasting manpower in the filling stations fighting and queuing to get the product, yet you keep blaming the previous administration being the cause of your problem!

#TakeResponsibility

They are silently depleting the grains reserves that were strategically built by the PDP. Hope they won't empty the whole thing only to come and tell us they met VIRTUALLY EMPTY grains reserves.

Hope this man will replenish all he is taking from the grains reserves as quickly as possible.

Tremendous work and planning went into saving those grains for the rainy day. Hope this man will not deplete the whole reserves without replenishing them during the next harvest,

“The Presidency however asserts that the devastation of the economy was caused by the Boko Haram insurgency, corruption and the lack of planning by the past administrations..



You see why Buari is been called a "Dull@rd. He's blaming the past administration, but the grains he ordered its released was stocked and piled up by the past administration. Zombies you see how ur Daura-Dullard is contradicting himself??

Buhari is a natural idiat.

nnachukz:
Subsidy is a scam, according to dullardkpo yet he is reported to have paid the same thing he criticised.
The food another person saved, he is eating without saving any. No plan for the future.

all these ipob illiterate that always rush to comment without reading, it is the outstanding subsidy claims from oct 2014 to aug 2015, since that aug 2015. no more subsidy claims

God bless GEJ.

Jesusloveyou:
all these ipob illiterate that always rush to comment without reading, they said outstanding subsidy claims.

i see confusion and fustration in ur post

Buhari is Nigeria's punishment for rejecting true transformation.

The suffering is real and tangible ..... frustration is at an all time high.

Luckylife:
It seems that blaming everythings or everybody are in the DNA of all APC carrier. If you want to work , work and stop blaming. Nigerians are wiser now .

so u are wiser now, so u now admit u were foolish in d past 16yrs of pdp, God bless pmb as he now open ur eyes

2cato:
i see confusion and fustration in ur post

me wen happiness wan kill, i am just happy everyday as ineffectual buffoon is no longer in aso villa, God bless pmb

Jesusloveyou:
all these ipob illiterate that always rush to comment without reading, they said outstanding subsidy claims.

Which Subsidy claims did this administration pay on December, 2015?

You are the illiterate because the outstanding subsidy claims was N131 or 200 billion as at May 29, 2015.

Excerpts:

May 10, 2015

Punch reports that Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the government owes marketers N131 billion, however; the marketers insist that they are still being owed N200bn after last week’s payment of N154 billion.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-marketers-disagree-on-outstanding-subsidy-debt/

FG pays oil marketers N407bn outstanding subsidy claims

ON DECEMBER 10, 20151:00 AM

ABUJA— Respite seems to be in sight for Nigerians over the unending fuel scarcity witnessed across the country, as the Federal Government, yesterday, said it has paid N407.077 billion to oil marketers for their outstanding subsidy claims.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/fg-pays-oil-marketers-n407bn-outstanding-subsidy-claims/

Buhari is a devil who does not see nor apreciate good in others. I wonder whether he is thinking da gej will b fielded by d pdp in 2019. U're sharing somebody's brainchild at d same time blaming him.

Amazing

In Jonathan's government (2013) ....read below

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that over 25,000 metric tons of assorted food be released from the strategic grains reserves of the Federal Government to the three states under emergency rule.

Under Jonathan's administration, he authorised that 25,000 metric tons of food which is equivalent to 930 trailer loads of food stuff which is over half a million bags of maize, millet and guinea corn. So where are the agricultural produce?

http://www.informationng.com/2013/07/jonathan-sends-food-approves-n250m-for-residents-of-states-under-emergency-rule.html

Jonathan sef