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PoliticsOsun Speaker’s Wife’s Abductors Jailed 27 Years Each by ceo4eva(op): 12:59am On Oct 23, 2013
An Osun State High Court sitting in
Iwo has sentenced five men who
kidnapped the wife of the Speaker of
the state House of Assembly, Alhaja
Muibat Salaam, to 27 years in prison.
Justice Moshood Adeigbe while
delivering the judgment held that the
prosecutors had been able to prove
beyond reasonable doubt that the
kidnappers met and conspired before
they kidnapped their victim.
The five persons convicted by the
court are: Chukwudi Okereke (40);
Ogbole Ochijile Elijah (25); Lucky
Okonkwo (33); Kaikine Mahah (35);
and Philip Nwadinnor (30).
The judge ruled that each of the five
convicts would spend seven years in
prison for the charge of conspiracy;
he sentenced them to 10 years
imprisonment for the count of
kidnapping; and 10 years for the
charge of unlawful possession of
firearms. He ruled that the jail terms
would run concurrently since the
charges arose from the same crime.
The Speaker’s wife was kidnapped in
Ejigbo, Osun State on October 9, 2012
by men armed with guns while she
was returning home from work.
The judge said, “The confessional
statements were clear that the
accused persons met at Royal Hotel
in Agbor, Delta State where they
planned the kidnap, perfected it in
Lagos and carried it out in Ejigbo.
“The exhibits also showed that the
five accused persons kidnapped the
PW2 (Mrs. Salaam), forced her into a
trailer and dragged her into the bush
on their way to Lagos before men of
the Ogun State Police Command
arrested them. I hold that the
prosecution have established their
case and therefore found the five
accused persons guilty of conspiracy,
kidnapping and unlawful possession
of firearms.”
The prosecution team led by the
Attorney-General and Commissioner
for Justice, Mr. Adewale Afolabi, told
the court that the convicts had
confessed to the kidnapping in the
confessional statements each of
them gave to the police during
investigation.
However, the defence counsel,
Messrs. Sam George and Fredrick
Komolafe had urged the judge to
temper justice with mercy because
the accused persons were married
men with children.
But Justice Adeigbe ruled that the
kidnappers deserved the full
punishment of the law because
kidnapping was a heartless and
condemnable offence.
The defence counsel vowed to appeal
the judgment, saying the confessional
statements were not tested. They
said that the best thing was to have
ordered a trial within trial to be able
to authenticate the statements.
source: http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-speakers-wifes-abductors-jailed-27-years-each/

CrimeTricycle Operator Commits Suicide In Lover’s Home by ceo4eva(op): 7:10am On Oct 21, 2013
WARRI — A tricycle opera-tor,
weekend, allegedly committed
suicide by hanging himself in the
residence of his lover at Okpokiti
Street, Warri South Local Government
Area, Delta State.
Vanguard understood that the
deceased committed suicide because
his lover left him in her house to sleep
somewhere else.
When Vanguard correspondent
arrived the scene, neighbours were
seen discussing the incident, while
homicide detectives from the ‘A’
Police Division, Warri, came to
remove the dangling remains to the
morgue of the CentralHospital, Warri.
The policemen, who declined
comments later took the girlfriend
away for questioning.
A tenant, who pleaded anonymity,
told Vanguard, “it all started last
night (Saturday), when we heard the
deceased and his girlfriend arguing.
“I was sleeping in my room when I
heard them arguing. It is like the
young man wanted to spend the night
with the girl, but the girl refused.
“The argument got to a point and the
girl told the boy that if he was going
to spend the night in her house, she
will not sleep in the same house with
him.
“The boy told the girl that if she
leaves, he would kill himself. The girl,
thinking that the boy was joking, told
him to go ahead and kill himself, left
the boy in the room and went to go
and sleep in another place.”
It was gathered that when the girl
returned in the morning (yesterday),
she discovered that the door was
locked. She alerted her neighbours,
who helped her to force the door open,
only to see the lifeless body of her
boyfriend dangling from a rope.
The community people took the girl to
the police station. A senior police
officer at the ‘A’ Police Division
stopped Vanguard from speaking with
the girl, saying she was undergoing
interrogation.
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/tricycle-operator-commits-suicide-lovers-home/
PoliticsPDP Crisis: Five More Governors Ready To Join Us – Baraje by ceo4eva(op): 1:45am On Oct 21, 2013
Barely one week after a court
declared the parallel National
Working Committee (NWC) of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
illegal, the leadership of the group has
boasted that five more governors
have indicated interest to join the
seven already with the group.This is
coming at a time when the Baraje
group has vowed to remove Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur from office as
national chairman of the party.
Justice Elvis Chukwu of a Federal
High Court in Abuja had Friday last
week proclaimed the Bamanga
Tukur-led PDP National Working
Committee, (NWC) as the authentic
national leadership of the party.
Reacting to this, the group, in a
statement signed by Kawu Baraje,
disclosed that it would abide by the
court’s judgment but would hold a
meeting this week to decide another
line of action.
He stated: “As a group that has a lot
of respect for the judiciary, we have
accepted the ruling in good faith and
wish to abide by it. Even so, we have
directed our legal team to appeal the
judgment, as a matter of urgency, as
we remain convinced that we have a
good case and are thus determined to
ensure that Tukur and his cohorts are
not allowed to hold sway as the
leaders of our great party.”
Baraje, who just returned from the
Holy Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia,
disclosed that he has convened an
emergency meeting of the G7,
stakeholders and the National
Working Committee (NWC) of the
New PDP to exhaustively discuss the
new developments and chart the way
forward, as there is no going back on
the struggle to rescue PDP from the
“hands of usurpers.”
He said: “Apart from deciding on the
Federal High Court ruling and the
challenges facing us a group, the G7/
stakeholders/NWC meeting slated for
this week is expected to deliberate on
how five more governors of PDP that
have indicated interest to join the
Baraje leadership will be received in
the fold.”
The factional national chairman
denied media reports of a crack in its
camp and declared that his group
was determined to remove the Tukur-
led NWC it described as undemocratic
elements.
He said: “Let us reiterate that
contrary to insinuations in some
quarters, reflected in a section of the
media, of division and disunity
among our governors and National
Assembly members because of our
current travails, the fact remains that
instead of division, our current
travails have strengthen us the more
and act as a unifying factor that have
shown us that it is a matter of time
that the undemocratic elements that
have seized our party will be
dislodged.
“Meanwhile, we feel nothing but pity
for Alhaji Tukur and his NWC, who are
already gloating over their ‘victory’
over us and even had the temerity to
describe us and our governors as
criminals. By being so uncouth in
addressing governors duly elected by
Nigerians, Tukur and his disciples
have once more vindicated our
struggle to flush out these unholy
undemocratic elements from our
party.
“We are confident that this is one
mission, which we shall successfully
accomplish, by the grace of God, not
minding the use of state security
agencies to harass and intimidate our
people.”
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/pdp-crisis-five-govs-ready-join-us-baraje/

PoliticsTension In House Of Reps As Jonathan's Loyalists List Peace Terms for Tambuwal by ceo4eva(op): 1:01am On Oct 21, 2013
Trouble appears imminent in the
House of Representatives, as
members get set to resume from
vacation tomorrow.
The bone of contention is that the
Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, must
support President Goodluck Jonathan
wholeheartedly or be ready to give
way for a core loyalist to take over
the proceedings of the House.
The Presidency and Tambuwal have
not been on the same page since he
was accused of romancing with the
opposition when he granted audience
to the breakaway faction of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led
by Abubakar Baraje, last month.
Although supporters of the President
in the House moved against what
many saw as ‘an open’ endorsement
of the group by the Speaker, there are
allegations that a major plot is being
hatched to remove Tambuwal from
the exalted post.
Worried by the sharp division in the
House arising from the Baraje and G7
governors’ visit and the controversy
generated, Tambuwal is said to have
set up a ‘small peace committee’ to
pacify aggrieved members and
restore confidence in the leadership.
However, a source close to the peace
committee told Vanguard that
members had been more divided than
before as a result of differences
among those loyal to Tambuwal and
the President.
It was learnt that when the two
groups met to make peace, the pro-
Jonathan lawmakers shocked
Tambuwal’s loyalists by coming up
with three stringent conditions, which
the Tambuwal group rejected.
The anti-Tambuwal lawmakers in the
House are reported to have asked
Tambuwal to allow for an
independent auditing of the amount
of money so far released to him since
he took over as Speaker in 2011.
The pro-Jonathan group also asked
Tambuwal to steer clear of the Rivers
State House of Assembly crisis and
allow the police to re-open the state
legislature for business.
The group also demanded that
Tambuwal should explain why
members of the 7th Assembly were
being paid a paltry N27 million per
quarter as against the N45 million
that their 6th Assembly counterparts
were getting under the Dimeji
Bankole leadership.
They argued that they have been
cheated by the leadership which
reduced their pay when the Federal
Government had not reduced the
statutory N150 billion being paid to
the National Assembly yearly.
However, a staunch supporter of
President Goodluck Jonathan in the
House of Representatives, Mr Uzo
Azubuike, has said that neither the
President nor the Speaker is under
any impeachment threat.
Azubuike, who is the Chairman of the
House Committee on Public Petition,
told Vanguard exclusively that the
main aim of the President’s loyalists
in the House was to strengthen peace
and unity as well as ensure that the
PDP, which is the majority party,
takes its rightful position in major
decisions-making.
The Aba North/Aba South Federal
Constituency Representative said that
as people, who believe in the unity
and development of Nigeria, they had
already floated a group within the
PDP members known as “Unity
Forum” to work for the advancement
of the cause of Nigeria.
Asked if all the PDP members in the
House of Representatives were
members of the forum, Azuibuike said
that at least most of the members of
the party were involved in it but did
not elaborate.
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/tension-house-reps-jonathans-loyalists-list-peace-terms-tambuwal/

EducationLagos Bars Under-Age Students In Public Schools by ceo4eva(op): 12:48am On Oct 21, 2013
Lagos — Lagos State Government has
said no underage pupil would
henceforth be eligible for admission
into any public secondary schools in
the state without completing primary
six.
Meantime, a standing committee to
harmonise the school calendar,
curriculum and time- table for the
Basic Education Certificate
Examination (Junior Senior
Secondary JSS111) of public and
private schools in the state would be
set up soon.
The state Commissioner for
Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye,
who disclosed, weekend during a
stakeholders’ session with school
proprietors, affirmed that the era of
admitting underage children into
secondary schools in the state was
over.
Oladunjoye explained that the need to
align the school calendar, curriculum
and time- table of public schools with
that of private schools became
necessary in order to standardise the
process.
According to her: “Henceforth no
pupil will be eligible for admission
into any secondary schools in the
state without completing primary six;
the era of admitting underage pupils
into secondary schools in the state
has gone.”
She also advised parents and
guardians as a matter of fact to
converse in their native language with
their children and wards at home,
stressing, “it is by so doing that our
mother-tongue will not only be
promoted but would be spoken
effortlessly by the children.”
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/lagos-bars-age-students-public-schools/
PoliticsDon’t Drag Ojukwu Into Politics, Ifeanyi Ubah Warns Gov Obi by ceo4eva(op): 12:29am On Oct 21, 2013
The Ifeanyi Ubah Campaign
organization has warned Governor
Peter Obi not to drag the late Dim
Emeka Ojukwu into the contest
asserting that the late Igbo warlord
would turn in his grave at the
desecrations of APGA by the outgoing
governor.
Responding to claims that Chief Ubah
dodged questions during a recent
radio appearance by making it
impossible for listeners to ask him
questions in the audience
participation programme, the Ubah
Campaign accused Obi and the APGA
candidate of resorting to
misinformation to deceive the public.
“This election will be defined by
issues not by empty boasts about
achievements. It will not be won by
the invocation of the revered name of
Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu., who would be turning in his
grave at the great rape carried out in
the state by Peter Obi,” the Ubah
campaign said in a statement issued
by Ayo Akinola on behalf of the Ifeanyi
Ubah Election Campaign Committee.
Singling out Governor Obi’s
spokesman, Val Obienyem of
masterminding the alleged
misinformation, the Ubah campaign
said: “Val lied when he suggested
that Ubah made it impossible for
callers to ask him questions when he
was featured on a live radio program.
Ifeanyi Ubah has never shied away
from being asked questions as
Obienyem knows full well.
He was available for questioning in
Florida during the ASA-USA
Conference and it is on record that he
put up a stellar performance at a time
when Willie Obiano had a terribly
poor showing that he could not
remember the name of his running
mate. Ubah loves being taken on as
he believes that a leader should be
open to questions from his people.”
Presidency engages stakeholders in
sensitization talks Wednesday
TO ensure a free and fair election on
November, the Presidency will
organise a sensitization workshop for
all stakeholders in the contest on
Wednesday.
Organised by the office of the
Presidential Adviser on Inter-Party
Affairs, Senator Ben Obi, the
workshop will hold at Women
Development Centre, Awka, the
Anambra State Capital. The event, to
be chaired by General Ike
Nwachukwu has Mosignor Obiora Ike
as (keynote speaker and Mr Femi
Falana and Dr. Udenta O Udenta as
guest speakers.
The 23 governorship candidates, their
deputies, leaders of the participating
parties and officials of INEC are also
expected.
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/dont-drag-ojukwu-ifeanyi-ubah-warns-gov-obi/

PoliticsHow The Deal On Oduah’s $1.6m BMW Cars Was Sealed by ceo4eva(op):
More facts emerged, at the weekend,
lending credence to the claim that the
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA) may have bought the two
controversial $1.6 million
(approximately N255 million) BMW
bullet proof cars for the Minister of
Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, amid
the parastatal’s precarious financial
situation.
Sunday Vanguard learnt that the
NCAA did not have the cash backing
and hence the deal with Coscharis
Motors and First Bank of Nigeria to
finance the purchase was negotiated
on hire purchase basis.
“There is no way NCAA could have
raised that kind of money in one lump
sum. Therefore when the pressure
became unbearable that the vehicles
had to be bought for the minister, the
only option open to us was to explore
how it could be done on hire
purchase”, an NCAA source said.
The source said the deal was sealed
based on anticipatory payment.
Explaining why the minister zeroed-in
on NCAA to buy the vehicles, the
source explained that it is one of the
hard currency generating aviation
agencies and payment for the
vehicles was denominated in dollars.
“NCAA is in this trouble because we
are one of the hard currency
generating aviation agencies. That is
why the minister zeroed-in on us to
buy the two cars because we were
made to understand that payment
had to be made in dollars,” the source
said.
“But it wasn’t as if the NCAA could
afford to pay for the cars, being
expensive as they are. We have many
issues contending for funds including
training of staff abroad on aircraft air
worthiness and so on.
“We entered into anticipating
payment for the cars such that the
payment is spreed over a period of
time based on our projections. The
source explained that it may take
several months for the parastatal to
fully pay for the vehicles.”
Meanwhile, the exact cost of the two
controversial BMW cars for the
Aviation Minister, at the weekend,
remained shrouded in secrecy.
Experts said the cost of the two cars
should not have been more than $
400,000 including freight charges as
against the $1.6 million paid by the
NCAA.
The insinuation was that the vehicles
were grossly over-priced.
Efforts to get Coscharis Motors, the
BMW representative in Nigeria, to
speak on the matter proved abortive
as the president of the company, Dr.
Cosmas Maduka, was said to be on a
foreign trip to South-Africa and
China.
A Coscharis source said, “I am not
competent to speak on the matter
because the issue of armoured
vehicles is strictly not for every staff,
as most customers would not like
people to know that their vehicles are
armoured. It is usually confidential.”
In the mean time, an expert argued
that given the level of insecurity in the
country, there was nothing wrong in
armouring a vehicle for a minister
especially given the part of the
country the Aviation Minister comes
from, saying what was worrisome
was the amount being quoted for the
two vehicles for Oduah.
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/deal-oduahs-1-6m-bmw-cars-sealed/

PoliticsMASSOB Declares War On Police, Gives 4-day Ultimatum by ceo4eva(op): 8:36am On Oct 19, 2013
Members of the Movement for the
Actualization of the Sovereign State
of Biafra, MASSOB on Friday gave the
Nigeria police and other security
agencies a four-day ultimatum to
release over 11 of its members who
were recently arrested and shot in
Onitsha.
Addressing journalists in the
commercial city of Onitsha, the
MASSOB administrator for Awka
North region, Mr. Tony Nwodo said
the movement has given the police
just four days to release all its
members arrested or charge them to
court.
He further called for the immediate
release of the corpse of one Chimezie
allegedly shot dead by a joint team of
army and police at Nkwelle Ezunanka
recently during a shoot-out, adding
that after the expiration of the
ultimatum, the movement may
explore alternative avenue to seek
justice.
Mr. Nwodo also accused the police of
torturing MASSOB members while
raising the alarm over the
whereabouts of over five members of
the body, adding: “We are still
searching for five of our members
who got missing after the police shot
one of us”
He gave the names of the detainees
as Ifeanyi Pota, Ifeanyi Agbom,
Kelechi Nkwuta, Emeka Martin,
Chibuike Okafor, Osita Anene and
Chimezie who was shot dead during
the operation. He also said John
Okechukwu, Chidubem Sunday,
Okafor Ede, Emeka Nwani and Greg
Chimezie are still missing.
The regional administrator further
challenged the police and other law
enforcement agencies to charge their
members to court if they were found
to have committed any crime, adding
that they would be forced to go to
court to seek redress over the alleged
killing of their member.
“The police should release our
members within these four days we
have graciously given to them. Our
members are not criminals and
MASSOB has stood tall in
maintaining law and order in the
state and Igbo land in general”, he
said.
He wondered why police and other
security agencies could be hunting for
MASSOB members, maiming and
killing them without any justification.
“We have taken our case to the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) at
The Hague to look into the inhuman
treatment we are facing in Nigeria” he
said.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/massob-declares-war-police/

PoliticsAPC Accuses Presidency Of Fresh Plot To Sack Rochas Okorocha by ceo4eva(op): 7:39am On Oct 19, 2013
A chieftain of All Progressive
Congress, Chief Ejikeme Ogbuagu has
raised the alarm over fresh plot by the
presidency to unseat the Imo State
governor, Rochas Okorocha through
the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling
on the governorship election.
He equally alleged that the Special
Adviser to the President on Political
Matters, Ahmed Gulak, who is
spearheading the plot, had already
drafted some prominent citizens from
the state into the plot.
“Already, several individuals have
been smuggled into Imo State to
cause confusion ahead of the
Supreme Court judgment on October
31.
According to him: “The recent
cancellation of Okorocha’s reception
in the commercial city of Aba by Abia
State governor, Theodore Orji, was
instigated by the presidency with a
view to inciting crisis to justify the
plans to demonise Okorocha”.
Ogbuagu also disclosed that the
presidential aide has equally enlisted
the support of National Chairman of
All Progressive Grand Alliance
(APGA), Chief Victor Umeh to use the
party to achieve their aim.
He informed that members of the
state House of Assembly are also
being pressured to move against the
state governor. “It should also be
noted that the same Gulak hosted
PDP members of the House of
Assembly months ago in Abuja in a
failed attempt to impeach Okorocha”,
he said
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/apc-accuses-presidency-fresh-plot-sack-okorocha/

PoliticsNational Dialogue Not Negotiable – Bamanga Tukur by ceo4eva(op): 1:02pm On Oct 18, 2013
The National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has described
as hasty and unbalanced,
commentaries from the opponents of
the proposed national dialogue,
saying that it is necessary if
Nigerians must plan for their future.
The chairman,who was in Yola for the
Sallah festival, told Daily Sun that
national dialogue was needed in a
situation whereby the federating units
feel that some teething issues should
be tackled.
The elder statesman advised
Nigerians to rather avail themselves
of the planned national conference, to
discuss such issues that would afford
them the opportunity to lay a solid
future for the country, by allowing
representatives of the people from the
ward, local government, state to
national levels to participate on the
proposed national conference.
According to him, every component of
the nation will express their views on
issues that are of national interest
through their elective representatives.
He said that the opponents of the
proposed national dialogue,were not
being patriotic and fair by trying to
force Nigerians to believe that the
national dialogue could disintegrate
Nigeria.
The elder statesman disagreed with
the position of those opposing the
national dialogue that it would create
disunity in the country, stressing that
the mischief makers were poised to
create bad impression against the
good intention of President Jonathan
to lay a solid foundation for the future
of the nation .
“What do they really want? How can
dialogue bring disunity. Any body
who says dialogue can bring disunity
really misses the point. The national
dialogue should not be likened to
war. Only war can bring disunity. War
and dialogue don’t tally. It is better to
jaw- jaw than war -war,” he said.
On how best he has been able to
coop with the crisis in the PDP,and
still do his work as required,Tukur
said this exprience as the national
chairman, has not hinder him from
performing the job challenges as they
have rather made him to be more a
determined to lead the party on his
path to succeed ,maintaining that
despite all odds from the opposition
to change.
According to him, “people like to
continue the thing they are doing. It is
normal. PDP has been in government
for the past 14 getting to 15 years
now. And to renew and keep
deepening democracy there has to be
change. The task of deepening
democracy
For reconciliation to take
plac,Bamanga called on the
aggrieved members of the party to
embrace the new order of
peace,equity and justice ,which could
be attained without confrontation but
change of attitude.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/national-dialogue-negotiable-bamanga-tukur/

BusinessFire Guts Onitsha Market, Traders Attempt Suicide by ceo4eva(op): 12:46pm On Oct 18, 2013
FROM ALOYSIUS ATTAH, OnitshaTraders and small scale industrialists lost goods and properties worth millions of naira yesterday in Onitsha following an early morning fire that gutted the polythene dealers market, Nwaizu Estate, Awada.

Three businessmen, who could not withstand the enormity of their losses allegedly attempted suicide by jumping into the raging fire but hey were later rescued by fellow traders.

When Daily Sun reporter visited the market yesterday morning, billows of smoke covered everywhere, while parts of the market were still on fire even as the traders watched helplessly as nothing was recovered from the inferno.

Scores of distraught shop owners in the market said the inferno started in the market at about 2am, after a storm with claps of thunder ripped through the area and a nearby shop caught fire which spread to the entire market.

Giving further insight on the incident, the Chairman of Progressive Polythene Dealers Welfare Association, Mr. Vincent Elechi, said the traders had suffered terrible losses and regretted that the situation would have been salvaged if the state fire service had responded promptly.

“From our findings, it was the electric pole at the entrance of the market that caught fire when thunder struck. But immediately I got the information, I alerted the state fire service and they promised to come, but later said they needed to refill their water tank. By the time they arrived, everywhere was on fire because our products are highly inflammable. We have more than 3,000 traders and small scale industrialists here but all our years of toiling have been reduced to ashes. Though we are still counting our losses, presently more than N500 million has gone down the drain,’’ he said.

Corroborating the chairman’s claims, the Vice Chairman of the market, Francis Ubakasi, said some people were rescued from the fire when they attempted suicide.

He stated that the market served the polythene needs of Nigerians and some African countries, while some of them borrowed money from the banks to finance the procurement of their machine tools.

The traders appealed to the state government to come to their aid to cushion the effect of their losses.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/traders-attempt-suicide-fire-guts-onitsha-market/

PoliticsFashola Blames Delay In Budget Implementation In Lagos On FAAC by ceo4eva(op): 12:35pm On Oct 18, 2013
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde
Fashola has put the blame of the
shortfall in the state budget
performance on delays in the
remittances of Federal Account
Allocation Committee (FAAC).
Fashola, who said this while fielding
questions from journalists shortly
after reviewing the third quarter
budget performance of the state
government, added that the state
government budget recorded 70
percent performance.
He said: “There is a lot of work that
have been completed, but we have
not paid for. The core reason for that
is the revenue shortfall we have been
experiencing and delay in revenue
that is coming from the Federal
Government.
“This includes delay in the
remittances of Federal Account
Allocation Committee (FAAC)
allocations and lack of agreement on
Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) accounts at the
FAAC meetings. I think over two
months now (between August and
September), the FAAC payment did
not come on time.”
The governor pointed out that the
reasons being given for the delays in
federal allocations to the states
raises so many fundamental
questions, “saying, If we are reporting
some of the excuses that we heard,
400,000 barrels of oil is being stolen.
The story does not change.
According to him: “Some of the
questions really are: Is it a fixed
amount of oil being stolen every
month? Even if oil thieves do not
change, is it still the same amount?
We need to look at this thing more
rigorously.
Dwelling on the budget
implementation he added that the 70
per cent performance is a slight deep
in the overall aggregate of 72 per cent
mid-year review to 71 per cent.
He said: “It is a larger deep from 83
per cent for the second quarter,
standing alone to 70 per cent for the
third quarter standing alone. By and
by, we focus on the positive side.
“What is positive here is that what we
report as budget performance is the
combination of work done and
payment made.
“On a positive note, I am happy to
report that most infrastructure
projects are making progress. Roads
are being completed in Epe, Ajah,
Agege and Ajao. The Ajao link bridge
has been completed now. We have
completed the Iju road by-pass from
Capitol Road. Road works are
ongoing inside Ikeja GRA, already
approaching completion.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/fashola-blames-delay-budget-implementation-lagos-faac/

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