Afamed:


• FG: We need to borrow to fund the budget

• Facebook NG: Stop borrowing. Live within your means

• FG: Ok, let's live within our means by supporting local industries.

• Facebook NG: Are you madt? How can we live within our means in this economy?

• FG: Should we increase Taxes to fund the budget?

• Facebook NG: Something must be wrong with you. Do you want to kill the masses?

• FG: How about we sell some national assets to raise funds?

• Facebook NG: So you want to sell our national assets to your friends like you sold Etisalat to your family Abi?

• FG: So what can we do?

• Facebook NG: Remove Fuel Subsidies ( under recovery), you will raise N1 Trillion.

• FG: Great, we will remove fuel subsidies?

• Facebook NG: Why would you remove subsidies? Do you want to kill us?

• FG: But most of the fuel is being smuggled accross the border.

• Facebook NG: Empty brain, Close the border Joor!

• FG: Closes the border

• Facebook NG: Why must you close the border? Do you want to kill their economy? Besides the price of rice has gone up.

• FG: But we now produce rice locally?

Facebook NG: Which useless rice. Show me the plantation.




God is not an hypocrite, so therefore he could not bless a known looter like una Saraki and co

All you stated that the FG suggested has already been done without regarding the opinion of the masses.

Fuel has been increased.

Taxes increased.

More loans collected.

Borders closed.

Subsidy tripled.

Yet, no significant improvement for the masses.

The main issue is for the political class to reduce their allowances & other associated overhead cost. Until this is done, Nigerians will continue to oppose Draconian & ill-thought policies that only improverish the masses.

Reference:


As long as folks like you fail to understand how democracy works your suffering will continue unended.

It is a criminal offence for a black man to debate issues and progress based on superior argument.
It is a criminal offence for a black man to debate issues so that alternate ideas are generated.
It is a criminal offence for a black man to debate issues so that others can be part of the resolution on matters that affects them.

For heavens sake we were taught to debate as early as grade 3. For what you may ask. To sort out and solve everyday social problems. How can an organ of government at the highest level supposedly filled with the brightest and best the country has to offer not rigorously debate an issue that will have far reaching consequences for generations to come....

And you say this is normal....

If you are going to remove subsidy, close borders, raise taxes, or in this case impose debts on my generations to come or anything that affects my security and welfare shouldn't you ask me first and get my permission first. Is this not a democracy anymore. Shouldn't I ask you questions and trouble you for alternatives and isn't it your duty to persuade me that course is right having exhausted all other options.

Is democracy no longer of the people, for the people.? Even God Almighty in the Bible says 'come let us reason together...'

You guys will never listen... Critical thinking and objective discourse are beyond the mental scope of sycophants.

brexit:
Abaribe is a hypocrite, he is from Abia State and his party the PDP has been in power for the last 20 years and the State is under developed, what efforts has he made to correct all the maladministration of successive government in the State

Unlike one fool yesterday, you sounded more reasonable with this question so I will answer you rationally

You see, I don't defend anyone but you must understand that roles are defined

Abaribe is a federal senator not a state legislator

The state House of Assembly members hold the state governors accountable while the Senate and HoR members hold the president accountable

If you go outside of these confines, you dey find trouble.

Gnaeusmagnus:
Hmm

To everyone grumbling about how the Senate is a rubber stamp and how we are taking loans...

Let me tell you guys a cold and hard truth.

Nigeria is broke, has always been broke, and is going to continue to be broke.

1.Oil right now is 45 dollars per barrel. We need it at $140 per barrel. In 2012...we needed it at $120 per barrel. That's our breakeven price.

2.So as a result, we are not breaking even. We are not even making enough money to sustain the budget....

3.For those of you that say GEJ should have saved...even if he saved, at best we would have reached $100billion, and by now, most of those savings would have been gone because the oil prices since 2014 cannot sustain us.

4.If we don't take loans, the economic situation would be worse. As in, most Nigerians won't have been paid salaries for years. And essential prices would be at sky high prices.

5.If you want Nigeria to develop, you have to hold your leaders to account. You have to remove subsides, so that we can save money and attract investment and jobs. We have to end useless projects like N-power. We have to cut the bloated civil service and the National assembly, and the cost of governance. We have to spend more on inudstrial output and less on importing stuff.

In other words, leave oil and become industrial.

Taking loans to build railways in Abuja, expand the Ibadan -Kano rail network of digital transform NTA will not improve Nigeria, infrastructure are liabilities, Nigeria needs to invest the loans to generate revenues to fund security, infrastructures and development.

Invest the loans into PPP programmes to fix the government-owned refineries, building new modern steel plants, develop gold and iron mines and mechanise agriculture.

NaijaRoyalty:
Lawan is the worst senate president known to man .

The most useless i think .


God bless Dr Bukola Saraki

Lawan is useless doesn't mean Saraki is a good person.

NextD18:
The senate lost its political juice immediately Apc took over.

But that's what INEC and the courts wanted........

if there's any interview for the president, I bet he may not remember anything on d list of that loan money

Afamed:


• FG: We need to borrow to fund the budget

• Facebook NG: Stop borrowing. Live within your means

• FG: Ok, let's live within our means by supporting local industries.

• Facebook NG: Are you madt? How can we live within our means in this economy?

• FG: Should we increase Taxes to fund the budget?

• Facebook NG: Something must be wrong with you. Do you want to kill the masses?

• FG: How about we sell some national assets to raise funds?

• Facebook NG: So you want to sell our national assets to your friends like you sold Etisalat to your family Abi?

• FG: So what can we do?

• Facebook NG: Remove Fuel Subsidies ( under recovery), you will raise N1 Trillion.

• FG: Great, we will remove fuel subsidies?

• Facebook NG: Why would you remove subsidies? Do you want to kill us?

• FG: But most of the fuel is being smuggled accross the border.

• Facebook NG: Empty brain, Close the border Joor!

• FG: Closes the border

• Facebook NG: Why must you close the border? Do you want to kill their economy? Besides the price of rice has gone up.

• FG: But we now produce rice locally?

Facebook NG: Which useless rice. Show me the plantation.




God is not an hypocrite, so therefore he could not bless a known looter like una Saraki and co

The present day government is not different from Saraki. They are all thieves and rogues. Am sure you are aware of loosing $349 million in oil theft in a month. 70-80% of Buhari’s cabinet are corrupt politicians that has corruption cases. How are they different from Saraki? What’s going on with all the money custom is making from border closure and also all the money being recovered by EFCC and why do we have to borrow so much if the federal government is making more money in custom and EFCC alone. Even the $22.7 billion about 60% of that money will be spent in the North and the whole Nigeria will be the one to pay it back and suffer for it. I don’t know how any reasonable human being will still try to support this devilish and blood sucking government.

opposition senators are the ones grumbling .

Senate is supposed to be rubber stamp. For ruling party from every arm or government should be on same page in delivering election promises/manifesto . open

Denzel20:
tsephanyah you again

but you fine sha
can I have sex with you

Are you Gay?
Because its a man that's behind that moniker

What's 22 billion?

Na small pikin they worry una

Angelfrost:


You guys will never listen... Critical thinking and objective discourse are beyond the mental scope of sycophant.

If we do not try to persuade fellow citizens that doing the right thing is in our collective interest what can we do. They have the votes. I have only one.

Officialgarri:

Wow, there are so many sick children on this forum. No doubt. And this one for example is suffering chronic dementia.
The same Saraki that didn't stop at looting his state but rendering nothing tangible to his constituency even as a senate president is suddenly a hero?

The same Saraki that was indicted in German Paradise papers scandals?

The same Saraki who with his hang laundered #3.5 billion of Paris club fund?

The same Saraki who was rejected by his people and even his nuclear family?

So you think the unending friction between the presidency and senate is good for an ordinary citizen like you?

nice quote from soyinka.
but then he's the same man that created a monster called CULTISM in nigeria's tertiary institutions.

make he go siddon abeg.

Afamed:


• FG: We need to borrow to fund the budget

• Facebook NG: Stop borrowing. Live within your means

• FG: Ok, let's live within our means by supporting local industries.

• Facebook NG: Are you madt? How can we live within our means in this economy?

• FG: Should we increase Taxes to fund the budget?

• Facebook NG: Something must be wrong with you. Do you want to kill the masses?

• FG: How about we sell some national assets to raise funds?

• Facebook NG: So you want to sell our national assets to your friends like you sold Etisalat to your family Abi?

• FG: So what can we do?

• Facebook NG: Remove Fuel Subsidies ( under recovery), you will raise N1 Trillion.

• FG: Great, we will remove fuel subsidies?

• Facebook NG: Why would you remove subsidies? Do you want to kill us?

• FG: But most of the fuel is being smuggled accross the border.

• Facebook NG: Empty brain, Close the border Joor!

• FG: Closes the border

• Facebook NG: Why must you close the border? Do you want to kill their economy? Besides the price of rice has gone up.

• FG: But we now produce rice locally?

Facebook NG: Which useless rice. Show me the plantation.




God is not an hypocrite, so therefore he could not bless a known looter like una Saraki and co

This is how à government without plan n policies operate. If there was a plan, you wont b doing trial n error. You'll go with the plan knowing fully well the gains after

iamJ:
What's 22 billion?

Na small pikin they worry una

But thought some of Abacha's loot was returned recently?

Collecting the loans is noth a problem ,Who will pay the loans? Oil in South South region,remove the oil in the south and tell me were the money will come from to pay the debts

ogatboy:


But thought some of Abacha's loot was returned recently?

they were in millions of dollars not billions

They will be used to pay of some outstanding loans, some thieves wanted the money to be spent here doing projects meanwhile bubu wants to use it to pay off loans

So much has to be done, that's why buhari requested the loans, development is expensive, the money you are screaming about some countries use it to build under see highways

That's how development is growing there

People can read about what and where the loans are going but people still prefer to complain as if they know everything, education no stop at the gate of school

OkpaNsukkaisBae:




nice quote from soyinka.
but then he's the same man that created a monster called CULTISM in nigeria's tertiary institutions.

make he go siddon abeg.

Soyinka, my hero, is a founder of a confraternity. It did not mean the confra was initially founded for violence. It was basically for intellects only
Decades after, it was hijacked by hoodlums in the Universities and the Pyrate confraternity denounced membership of students.
Which means, any PC you find in schools have no affiliation with the fraternity founded by Prof. Wole.

Even schools in USA or other developed countries are at liberty to flag off their own fraternities. It's a normal thing

Dr Bukola Saraki na man, walahi
Ahmed Lawan na Buhari girlfriend

Officialgarri:

Wow, there are so many sick children on this forum. No doubt. And this one for example is suffering chronic dementia.
The same Saraki that didn't stop at looting his state but rendering nothing tangible to his constituency even as a senate president is suddenly a hero?

The same Saraki that was indicted in German Paradise papers scandals?

The same Saraki who with his hang laundered #3.5 billion of Paris club fund?

The same Saraki who was rejected by his people and even his nuclear family?

So you think the unending friction between the presidency and senate is good for an ordinary citizen like you?

Stale and boring comment! Even Buhari you are supporting blindly is a bigger thief!!!

Witcher:
Well well another day of PDP's misinformation

he who goes borrowing goes sorrowing

Witcher:
Well well another day of PDP's misinformation

Nigeria is bigger than PDP or APC Try and make constructive comments

Are they not a rubber stamp senate with a puppet senate president.

All the loans they’ve collected what have they done with it? How many billions have World Bank, China and several other countries given to Buhari administration? What have they done with them? The lack of development despite the trillions in debt tells exactly where this 22.769b loan is going to.... Buhari and several other politicians in his administrations pocket. I believe Buhari is a bigger looter than even Abacha. His mentor taught him well.

Dis senator president is jus approving loan without tinking

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Officialgarri:

Soyinka, my hero, is a founder of a confraternity. It did not mean the confra was initially founded for violence. It was basically for intellects only
Decades after, it was hijacked by hoodlums in the Universities and the Pyrate confraternity denounced membership of students.
Which means, any PC you find in schools have no affiliation with the fraternity founded by Prof. Wole.

Even schools in USA or other developed countries are at liberty to flag off their own fraternities. It's a normal thing

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Nigerians who are patriotic should not expect any positive impact from this present national assembly leadership. Don't forget that the executive spent billions of naira to bribe some unpatriotic law makers to put the leaders of the national assembly there. So one should not expect them to bite the finger that fed them. Everything should be yes sir yes sir. The senate president even confirmed that any request from the executive would always have free passage. No one should be surprised that $22.7 billion loan request from the executive got approval without any robust debate on the floor of the senate even when some intelligent senators wanted to know the details of the loan and it was turned down by the senate president.

Officialgarri:

Wow, there are so many sick children on this forum. No doubt. And this one for example is suffering chronic dementia.
The same Saraki that didn't stop at looting his state but rendering nothing tangible to his constituency even as a senate president is suddenly a hero?

The same Saraki that was indicted in German Paradise papers scandals?

The same Saraki who with his hang laundered #3.5 billion of Paris club fund?

The same Saraki who was rejected by his people and even his nuclear family?

So you think the unending friction between the presidency and senate is good for an ordinary citizen like you?

What is this one really saying. Rumour monger.