oga okupe. thank you for enlightening these apc zombies, because we already know they 're telling lies.

authority2006:


And wailers like you who are Intellectually lazy would swallow every lie from Okupe or FFK hook, line and sinker without thinking twice.


How can a sane mind even believe that crap above? Paid 71% of FGN share yet, nothing to show for it!

You know one thing? The brainless, Used Idiots wasting their destiny and shaming their education to defend Dullard Buhari have never for once shown any evidence to disprove FFK or okupe. All they are programmed to do, like stupid zombies, is to attack the personalities of these men. You will agree that this is the deepest form of stupidity.

KenOne:
I hope you people will not vent your anger on number 12 and 13 on the list when the implementation starts, I heard Peter Obi and GEJ planned this collection of toll gate to enrich themselves. It's important we know whom to blame after construction of the bridge and tolling starts.

When it's bad you shift to Jonathan. Meanwhile, you are praising Buhari for building the bridge.

While he the saint and helper of the Masses didn't remove that 12 and 13?

Answer in your mind.
Does it matter what I or anyone believes? Even if it determines the outcome of the elections, did the All Progressives Congress not promise us restructuring? Promises have never been a problem.

The saddest part of it all is that even the politicians do not expect to be believed, but somehow, we stupidly do.

The Kenyan scholar, Patrick Lumumba, once said
" the tragedy with Africa is that those with ideas are not in power, while those in power have no ideas. The sad thing, he said, is that when the people have a chance, they still vote for those with no ideas"

emmatuxz:


http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/14/doyin-okupe-makes-15-shocking-revelations-second-niger-bridge/amp/

Second Niger Bridge: Beyond politics
16 JAN 2017
Those who have followed events surrounding the construction of the Second Niger Bridge would have heaved a heavy sigh of relief at recent disclosure by the Buhari administration that it intends to commence work on the project.
Before now, the same government through its Minister of Environment, Laurentia Mallam had told an expectant nation that work on the project had been suspended because the Environmental Impact Assessment law was not taken into account by the last administration. The announcement was not altogether surprising, as it did not depart sharply from the policy summersaults that had been the fate of that project in the hands of succeeding regimes.
Not unexpectedly, interest groups in the south-east saw in it a further evidence of the hostility of the Buhari regime to the zone. They could not come to terms with the reasons adduced for the project’s suspension especially given the strategic importance and overall benefits it holds for this country.
But addressing reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting just before the Christmas, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola said the government had given a go ahead for work to continue on the bridge.
He said the bridge was conceived as “Public-Private Partnership PPP with government financing but negotiations had not been concluded and it is important to continue to work there”. Fashola said government officials would continue discussions and see whether they could conclude a full business case and possibly concession the agreement to enable private investors come in and conclude the remaining works.
The minister has gone ahead to visit the project site apparently to underscore the seriousness the government attached to this new commitment. He had said during the visit “I came here in pursuant of the commitment of the federal government and that of President Muhammadu Buhari to complete the bridge”.
As a further evidence of this, the federal government last week announced the award of a N14.4 billion contract to Julius Berger for early works on the bridge. In a statement from the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, the contract award was said to be clear evidence of the Buhari regime’s resolute commitment to the completion of the project.
For those who before now, consider the Second Niger Bridge project a pipe dream given the high-wired politics into which it had been enmeshed over the years, the renewed interest of the current regime to the project provides new hope for its eventual coming on stream. It is definitely something to cheer. This is more so, given the larger benefits to the nation the completion of the bridge that links the south-east and the south-west parts of the country will bring about.
It is therefore a big relief that the current regime has gone beyond finding faults with the conceptualization of the bridge project to awarding a contract for early works on it. By that, the government has gone beyond words to demonstrate in very unambiguous terms that it shares the ideals for which the construction of the bridge has been a recurring decimal, the politics of past regimes notwithstanding.
It is a good step that will go a long way to disabuse raging feelings that nothing good will go to that part of the country because the current regime did not receive huge votes from them in the last election. Be that as it may, it is also strategically and politically expedient for Buhari to complete the project since he or another member of his party will soon be seeking re-election.
He must therefore have something very concrete and tangible to tell people of the zone to deserve their votes especially given their advantaged position in federal appointments. So it is even in the enlightened self-interest of the president to see to the completion of the project.
But there are still issues to be resolved fast, otherwise the project could still suffer its’ characteristics fate. The government should move into quick action to commence negotiations with private investors so that they can come in and complete the project conceived under the PPP arrangement. Though the government has announced with fanfare the award of the N14.4 billion contract to Julius Berger but this is only part of the initial commitment of the government during the last regime to contribute 25 per cent amounting to about N30 billion of the total construction cost.
With the total financial outlay for the project put at N117 billion by President Jonathan during the ground-breaking ceremony in 2014, it is left to be seen what impact N14.4 billion would make in the overall performance of the project. The larger chunk of the funding will still have to come from the private sector for reasonable progress to be recorded.
In effect, even if the government meets its own commitment to the project, not much may come out of it until the participation of the private sector is fully finalized. There is therefore the overriding imperative to ensure that all impediments to the full realization of the project are eliminated by fast-tracking the process of negotiations with private investors.
The other matter the government must be quick in action is compensation for those whose properties will be affected by the project. Fashola made references to this when he asked those to be affected not to disrupt the project in the overall interest of its larger benefits to the people. This may as well be. But indications by the Obi of Onitsha, Alfred Achebe that there have been no consultations with stakeholders on the matter cast some slur on the entire arrangement.
It is pertinent that immediate discussions are commenced with stakeholders if anything, to identify all those to be affected and compute whatever compensations to come their way when the government is ready to pay. To leave matters hanging, only to rely on appeals to the sentiments of those who will lose property, is a sure way to court trouble. If and when protests crop up, the government or the contractor may turn around and hide under such to abandon the project.
There is still ample time for all the rough edges to the project to be straightened. We say so given the fate which the project has suffered in the hands of previous administrations. Necessary steps must be taken to ensure that the latest effort marks a substantial departure from previous ones.
With the current economic recession consequent upon the dwindling revenue accruals to the federal coffers, it is only to be expected that timely completion will save the government the huge cost it is bound to encounter due largely to spiralling inflation.
Even now, there is everything to indicate that the N117 billion earmarked for the project in 2014 has been adversely affected by the exchange rate of the Naira. It will not be surprising if this becomes a big issue in discussions the government will hold with private investors. This point has to be underscored because in 2009, the Obasanjo regime had awarded the same contract to Gitto construction Ltd at the cost of N55 billion.
We can see the whooping difference time has brought to bear in the value of the contract even when the exchange rate hovered around N19 per dollar in contradistinction with the current rate of about N340. That has been the prize we procured for ourselves due to tardiness in attending to strategic national projects with abundant economic benefits to the citizens. That is the bane of the kind of politics our so-called leaders play. The Second Niger Bridge project goes beyond partisan politics. The sooner we realized that, the better for this country.
Overall, it is good a thing Buhari has shown commitment to complete the project. If he succeeds, he would have carved the niche of a leader who succeeded where others failed. Besides, he would have endeared himself to a people who have overtime, groaned under the shackles of neglect and near abandonment by successive regimes. Will he? Time will tell.

oneeast:
GOD BLESS GEJ who initiated this project.

Even with the tolling arrangement?
Jonathan had the money, why did not just pay the N30b or put it in an escrow account?

So if the FG had paid about 67% of its contribution, why did work stop at 38%
Must the FG pay 100% of its contribution before Julius Berger does meaningful work

And as for Okupe, he previously confirmed that they rigged elections since 1999
So everything he says is unlikely to be true

Okwyjesus:


I passed the bridge today and unfortunately nothing significant is happening there. Sad!

Your man, Saraki, is working only on election order bill
He has forgotten the 2018 budget
Until that budget is passed. no work can be done on the bridge

Wiseandtrue:

What manner of president do we have in this country?

How can a president who is suppose to be a role model lie so shamelessly?

If this is not extortion I don't know what else to call it

My dear sister, you can the supporters of evil liters this thread as if they are not suffering.

Does it matter what I or anyone believes?

Even if it determines the outcome of the elections, did the All Progressives Congress not promise us restructuring? Promises have never been a problem.

The saddest part of it all is that even the politicians do not expect to be believed, but somehow, we stupidly do.

The Kenyan scholar, Patrick Lumumba, once said

"the tragedy with Africa is that those with ideas are not in power, while those in power have no ideas. The sad thing, he said, is that when the people have a chance, they still vote for those with no ideas"

NonFarmPayrol:
Time was not just on GEJ side



Buhari has achieved nothing other than


Glory hunting on stuff goodluck had paid for

Time? He had been in Aso rock since 2007 and had enough time to understand what the problems were
And you forget that by the time he left in 2015, he was borrowing to pay salaries when oil price was around $68
Many states were owing salaries before Jonathan left
What would he have done with oil at $40

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/182543-nigerian-govt-borrowing-billions-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala.html/amp

valentineuwakwe:
that meansitssouth east people that will pay for the bridge sinc entry are the once that will likely make use of the bridge the most and they will be tax....as in toll gate

Lagos Ibadan expressway and other reconstructed roads will be tolled. Fashola has said that


Fashola declared, “We should stop being pretentious that roads can be had for absolutely free everywhere. There will be toll roads if we want to get out of this situation. There will be alternative roads as well so that people can choose.”


https://www.nairaland.com/3078554/fg-introduce-toll-some-reconstructed

freeze001:


He did mention that figure with his pastoral lips. Let me find a link..
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/were-not-promise-fail-govt-have-paid-2bn-for-second-niger-bridge-osinbajo/amp/

It was when fire came on them via criticism for their vicious lies that they came to do some 'clarification'.

you are a Darling

God bless u for proving the fact that Osinbajo is a bleeping bloody lair

vamsexy:


Second Niger Bridge: Beyond politics
16 JAN 2017
Those who have followed events surrounding the construction of the Second Niger Bridge would have heaved a heavy sigh of relief at recent disclosure by the Buhari administration that it intends to commence work on the project.
Before now, the same government through its Minister of Environment, Laurentia Mallam had told an expectant nation that work on the project had been suspended because the Environmental Impact Assessment law was not taken into account by the last administration. The announcement was not altogether surprising, as it did not depart sharply from the policy summersaults that had been the fate of that project in the hands of succeeding regimes.

Kindly supply a link
This is an interesting insight/dimension

The likelihood of the project going up following devaluation of the Naira is something I never thought of

rusher14:
That Okupe says it doesn't make it a fact.

Saying the photos in circulation now have been in circulation since 2015 requires proof.

Present a link to a 2015 report with the supposed photos.

If it was negotiated to be a PPP, with tolling as the consequence, perhaps those who have berated the present government for doing so, might as well tender an apology.

I just want to let you know that you're a matured fool.

blackpanda:
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Heap load of lies

Oya tell us the truth

SalamRushdie:
Jonathan was a million times a better leader than the Buhari is , it so sad that people like me couldn't see that then .

Ntoooor!

Yoruba will say IJA lode lorin dowe" why saying this now Doyin?

saaron:
Those of us who followed 2 Niger Bridge development bumper to bumper during the last administration were not fooled one bit by vegetable buhari's band of lies. The pictures APC liars circulate as buhari's work on 2nd Niger Bridge are the same pictures I downloaded from Nairaland since 2014! I still have the pics. Talk about desperate liars with nothing to show other than claim other people's work.

$2 billion 2nd Niger bridge payment indeed, just like the $1 billion Ogoni cleanup lies dished out shamelessly by buhari's destructive govt.
How far with the much propagandized $1 billion Ogoni clean up by buhari's rudderless govt @Doyin Okupe?

pls the pictures!

KenOne:
I hope you people will not vent your anger on number 12 and 13 on the list when the implementation starts, I heard Peter Obi and GEJ planned this collection of toll gate to enrich themselves. It's important we know whom to blame after construction of the bridge and tolling starts.

why spread falsehood? is Peter Obi or GEJ Julius Berger? It's clearly stated on the list. We know those that owe Julius Berger and GEJ or Peter Obi are neither of them

saaron:
Those of us who followed 2 Niger Bridge development bumper to bumper during the last administration were not fooled one bit by vegetable buhari's band of lies. The pictures APC liars circulate as buhari's work on 2nd Niger Bridge are the same pictures I downloaded from Nairaland since 2014! I still have the pics. Talk about desperate liars with nothing to show other than claim other people's work.

$2 billion 2nd Niger bridge payment indeed, just like the $1 billion Ogoni cleanup lies dished out shamelessly by buhari's destructive govt.
How far with the much propagandized $1 billion Ogoni clean up by buhari's rudderless govt @Doyin Okupe?

one good thing is that its not abandoned project let's move on






ibiri o ibiri kan biri


live and let's hear word

post=66733043:

I have today's pictures of Second Niger bridge, I'll update you guys soon. For now PMB is working.

Thanks for confirming that he has RESUMED work on Jonathan’s project after initially SUSPENDING it thereby wasting precious time and money.
Why did the Fulani herdsman not suspend Jonathan’s projects in the north to be resumed after three years of idling away? Projects like the Kaduna-Abuja railway, Abuja airport, Abuja light rail etc
Anyway is that not how he suspended the Lagos-Ibadan express road only to resume in a slow manner recently also because he is looking for our votes to re-employ him to the job in which he has failed thoroughly?
Buhari is a failure. Failure is Buhari.

silastemplar:
who was in power as at Sept 2015?

Please what do you know about major engineering projects and their design to contracting, mobilisation and implementation timelines?
That is a question oh.
Cheers.

it is not the amount that is put in there that got me so worried...but why should it be concession.. so that majority of travellers expected to usethast bridge are from Southern Nigeria.
Another reason, being a Southerner is evil.
so much for this lie called one Nigeria.

The truth most be told

SalamRushdie:
Jonathan was a million times a better leader than the Buhari is , it so sad that people like me couldn't see that then .

Such is life but to God be the glory because, even though lies may linger for years, truth one day will come. The lies and deception that this administration built their foundation upon can only last them but a moment. Truth will eventually prevail.

Like i always say since then, GEJ will always better PMB . Its nothing personal. GEJ made many mistakes but he always let nigerians have a say. This one that we have today, never let nigerians have their say but whatever they say. Worse is they tend to say rubbish often and will never admit it

seguno2:


Please what do you know about major engineering projects and their design to contracting, mobilisation and implementation timelines?
That is a question oh.
Cheers.

your point being what? Timing?

SalamRushdie:
Jonathan was a million times a better leader than the Buhari is , it so sad that people like me couldn't see that then .

In as much as I diss Buhari, what you, my friend, posted up there is a pure lie. QED!

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/buharis-heart-anambra-igboland-vp-osinbajo/
Exactly what VP Osinbajo said

It is not about flatnos or upon but about the present lying administration. Seriously their lies are getting embarrassing after the trust Nigerians put in them.

blackpanda:
Igbos oya come n eat o. Food have ready

mbhs139:


In as much as I diss Buhari, what you, my friend, posted up there is a pure lie. QED!

Checkout this link.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/buharis-heart-anambra-igboland-vp-osinbajo/

emmatuxz:


http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/14/doyin-okupe-makes-15-shocking-revelations-second-niger-bridge/amp/

hoping not true

ruggedboy01:
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this is what one afonja was blabbing on the other thread, as if buhari was even using his personal money to construct the so called bridge, I ignored him because of his myopic reasoning. hope he comes back and eat his words now.


BMC are so pathetic

giving the chance, he could have cancelled it like the Lagos metro project

blackpanda:
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Heap load of lies

give us the loads of truth