₦airaland Forum

By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke
ABUJA- THE Senate Tuesday passed a total sum of N574,532,726,857 as supplementary budget for President Muhammadu Buhari to be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation.

The approved N574,532,726,857 is for additional Recurrent( Non- Debt) Expenditure for the year ending on the 31 st day of December, 2015.

The Senate however jerked the original supplementary budget as submitted by President Buhari by N108,895,800,000, just as it said that the increase was designed to accommodate the said amount as additional funding for fuel subsidy for the months of October, November and December, 2015.

With the additional N109 billion by the Senate for fuel subsidy, it would now amount to N522,258,934,505 as against the backdrop that the President in the letter to the Senate had requested for N413 billion for fuel subsidy, just as N5,000,000,000 was approved as Victims Support Funds in the Capital Supplementation which would be re- classified to the Service Wide Vote of N559,217,800,017.

The Senate also approved a total sum of N29,958,865,512 to fight Boko Haram Insurgency in the North East and payment of outstanding claims in order to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians under the heading, operation Zaman Lafiya, and of the approved money, Nigerian Army will get N17,468,992,640; Nigerian Airforce, N8,141,434,760; Nigerian Army outstanding balance from 2015 and second quarter, N4,348,438,112

It would be recalled that the Senate had penultimate Wednesday received a supplementary budget of N465,636,926,857 from President Muhammadu Buhari for consideration and approval.

President Buhari who also sought an upward review of the new borrowing plan from N882.1billon to N2.103trillion, had said, “The expected deficit arising from the above is projected at 2.103 trn or 2.19 per cent of GDP to be financed by additional borrowing of 1.601 trn through the debt management office.”

The approval of the Senate was sequel to the report of the Senator Danjuma Goje led Committee on Appropriations on the 2015 Supplementary Appropriation Bill.

Earlier, the senators broke into an executive session for one hour as part of moves to discuss the appropriation bill and give the President a soft landing by passing the budget and as a follow up to last Thursday’s dinner the Senators had with President where collaboration and synergy among the Executive and Legislature were emphasized.

Presenting the report, Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje said, “the Committee observed that: The provision for subsidy payment only covers year 2014 arrears of N120.5 Billion and the claims of January – September, 2015 of N292.8 Billion.

“There is need to provide additional funding in the sum of N108,895,800,000(One Hundred and Eight Billion, Eight Hundred and Ninety-Five Million, Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) only for fuel subsidy for the months of October, November and December 2015 to endure that the 2016 Budget takes off on a clean slate( this issue came up in the course of clarification of the total subsidy need for the year ending 2015, by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources;

“The provision for Victim Support Fund in Capital Supplementation should have been made in the Service Wide Vote since it is a Federal Government contribution to a fund managed by a Committee which is not an MDA of Government;

ThisMeansWAR:
this comment shows you didn't read the post ..


Association of comment first and read later

wink2015:
[size=18pt]Considering the large scale corruption, mismanagement and abuse of public office over the years by Nigerian politician. I think government in Nigerian will find it hard finding a solution to unemployment in Nigeria. Government policies is not helping matter. We talk about diversifying the economy especially through agriculture but so far we have not shown serious signs about investing in agriculture. The N5,000.00 federal government wants to pay to unemployed Nigeria starting February 2016 the Buhari administration is yet to set up a management team to work out the process of effective disbursement of the money.

So far President Muhammadu Buhari has not thought it wise to bring the chinese to Nigeria to set up industries or factories. Where then will the work come from?

Most of the President trips is to USA, and europe and those people are reluctant coming to Nigeria to invest. why not invite the Asians such as the chinese to invest in Nigeria?

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ShowYourCertificate:
[size=25pt]Buhari was given a shoddy welcome this time. This is a national disgrace[/size]

Henrypraise:
Aha, immediately I saw his/her post on d debt relieve, I immediately understood d reason de call dem mast.urbaters.

I can't believe de hated NOI so much yet de give her accolades to d pervert called OBJ.

Just for d records, m not an Igbo person but d truth can't be buried.

obailala:
The amenities you listed are not free in any part of the world. But then, even with all your money in your wallet, you wouldn't have been able to get them still if they didnt exist in your environment; if you had N1m in your pocket, you wouldnt be able to still purchase mobile internet if it didnt exist in Nigeria (as was the case just some years ago).

May I also remind you that it was through those numerous foreign junkets which OBJ embarked upon those days, that's how Nigeria was able to secure a debt relief of well over $20billion from the Paris club. It is sometimes surprising to see supposedly educated people asking what the essence of these foreign trips or diplomatic relations are.

PapaBrowne:
An average of $245,000 per day minus presidential jet. Hmmm.

And the president has spent about 45 days offshore.

Well, some Mathematics.

$245,000 x 45days + (jet money) = $11 million + jet money

In naira= $11 million x 248 = N2.73 billion + Jet money.

If simple things like Taxi,Accommodation and Feeding would cost 2.73 billion, it would be safe to assume that JET MONEY would cost 3 times that amount. So JET MONEY would be equal to N2.8 Billion x 3= N8.2 Billion.

So Total on Junketing = N2.8 Billion +8.2 Billion= N11 Billion.



Now, 5 things N11 Billion would have done for Nigerians.

1)It would pay 600,000 Nigerian Workers minimum wage at 18,000 for 1 month.

2)It will buy 126 million litres of fuel at 87 Naira per litre. That's enough fuel for 10 days for 1 million cars if they are given 12 litres per day.

3)It would buy 3,500 Tractors at 3 Million Naira per tractor putting almost 100 tractors in every state definitely leading to an Agro revolution.

4)

NgeneUkwenu:
By Tomorrow, When the Gains of the so called "junketeerinG" starts trickling in, and it is reported by the Same Sahara Reporters, the Wailers will call it propaganda Newspaper!

It is really bad to be a Wailer

PassingShot:
What can online abuse do to anyone? Especially a largely anonymous site as this?

It's good to say the truth all the time irrespective of the number of people who will get hurt by it. I lie?

shiinihost:
Good. So how would you feel if it were your husband, father that is involved. Would you just jump into conclusion and try to justify with position by citing ubiquitous psychological maladies?

Do you know that i know of cases where parents have used 'molestation' of their little kids to actually get back at, intimidate or blackmail an acquaintance? would you claim that you do not know these things happen?

Have you not seen/heard of cases where girls claim they were rapped in order to extort money from the victims involved or seek some kind of revenge?

This same sugarbelle, had her friend claim she was raped in Ghana, only for the police to investigate and find out that it was false. If we all thought like you, we would have condemned the innocent man and allow the 'innocent' girl to get away with it.

PassingShot:
Another round of campaign for the next presidential election is upom us before we say Jack Robinson. Let wailing wailers campaign with all their "facts" then and we will see if their candidate will be accepted by Nigerians.
Crying over spilled milk (lost election) will not bring back their loss of access to the yam barns Nigerians shut them out of.

Wait till 2019 to try your luck again!

shiinihost:
really? So men are always the devil while girls must be innocent? Honestly, who awarded you your psychology degree?

BuddhaPalm:
You miss my point.

Someone who is capable of getting jealous just because you flirted will not pass you around to a gang.

Alphaoscar:
some people are only interested in making sure that the guy is punished for no reason . This is the first time I ever hear that rape victims stick with the person that abused them.

Rape victims normally avoid guys and stay away from anything sex not the other way round .

If the guy didn't rape her to sleep with her the first time why will he rape her later in the relationship when she even admit the guy keep many girls and hardly have her time?


Since the guy start talking and released some of their conversations have you seen her talking again?

BodyKiss:
Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly eight percent of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."[4] One commonly used hypothesis to explain the effect of Stockholm syndrome is based on Freudian theory. It suggests that the bonding is the individual's response to trauma in becoming a victim. Identifying with the aggressor is one way that the ego defends itself. When a victim believes the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be perceived as a threat.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome



My take on this is that her case sound very plausable and should not be taken likely. The case should be taken to court, and which ever party, Sugabelly or Mustapha is found guilty should face the punishment for the crime.

BuddhaPalm:
No mind them. She wants us to believe that the same guy who took offence that you flirted with his friends, passed her around to be gang-raped - earlier.

Beremx:
the same question I asked o!
And someone is telling me she just have to stick to the guy.

Imagine the nonsense?

Which brings us back to Warden -- and anyone who's ever wondered what an abuse victim derives from staying. It's giving into this very thought -- they must like this -- that creates one more barrier to the abused being able to leave. It makes the world simpler, no doubt, for us to indulge this theory. We feel safer. "That couldn't happen to me," we can say. "I'd never put up with it." But the research proves anyone can end up abused. And blaming the victims in this way is a huge part of the problem. It reinforces their shame.

Victim-blaming is dangerous enough that, in summarizing the conclusions (link is external) of hundreds of studies on domestic violence, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cites, as a barrier to ending domestic violence, the brute fact that "peers, family members, and others in the community (e.g., coworkers, social service-providers, police, or clergy) minimize or ignore the abuse and fail to provide consequences." Instead of condemning the abuse, people around the victims often simply admonish them with "What do you expect if you choose to stay?"

While Warden's right that legislation alone isn't the answer, reducing consequences to the perpetrator certainly isn't, either. Minimizing the nature of the crime sends the wrong message to everyone: It's no big deal. It wouldn't happen if you didn't stay. It makes the abused want to hide their pain, and when that happens -- when their plight remains invisible -- they have no hope at all of leaving.

The reality of abuse is far more complex. As a culture, we must grapple with the fact that many of us agree with some version of what Warden says -- that the victim is to blame for their abuse when they choose to stay. Sadly, even the abused can start to believe the explanation. But making Warden a scapegoat for our own ignorance won't change any of this. Only educating ourselves will.

VickyRotex:
He said something that impressed there

Something like this:

:

"I'm a politician. You know politicians lie, we go to many places during campaign, and tell so many lies. Don't believe what we say, access us by what we've done"

kindredspirit:
Please ignore him. Like the typical Nairaland thread. Everything is sane at first with everybody giving their opinions in an intellectual exercise. But then, somebody comes in to derail the thread with tribal nonsense. Therefrom, a hitherto interesting thread goes to the Dogs.

IlekeHD:
I said she sounds like a typical igbo girl nnamdi kanu warned us about.....ashewo runz things.

Look @ FFK's GF for starter....or the Ibo chick [Yobo's MIL] that was running after Fashanu before he divorced her.....

Your girls are known for throwing their dignity away for money.

Hope this aint the case.

IlekeHD:
I try to thread carefully when it comes to rape cases, esp in backwards environments like Nigeria where runz girls follow big boys/men and politicians use small girls as rituals.

We won't get the full story.

She does sound like a typical ashewo igbo girl running after boys with money tho......the case could be otherwise, who knows.

nduchucks:
You have no aota of evidence that the girl was not gang raped. Consensual sex is not the same as rape my brother.

Published conversations you are referring to are not enough to absolve Audu from the accusation, neither are they proof that the girl was raped. Caution is in order.