₦airaland Forum

DecemberIV:
No court orders were disregarded, continue deceiving yourselves with cheap emotional blackmail .

obailala:
Kindly point out where it's written in the constitution that criminal charge splitting is wrong?.... I'm sure you guys are really happy thinking Buhari doesnt know what he's going?.... I really love the way the FG is silent over these trending allegations regarding flouting of court orders.

Just the same way the rich who stole billions have manupulated the loopholes in the constitution to get only a slap on the wrist using their superpowerful legal teams, the FG under Buhari has now stepped up its game by exploiting those same constitutional loopholes to hound the devilish treasury looters to the greatest dismay of the supporters and sympathizers of these devils. Haven't you ever wondered the role of legal luminaries like Prof Itse Sagay as Buhari's legal adviser on the war against corruption?...

obailala:
After he was freed, the DSS re-arrested him for another crime. What's so difficult to understand in that simple situation?

squash1986:
1.) N 87,172,300 for the purchase of Kitchen Equipment.....

2.) N 764,671,051 for the construction of Recreational facilities....

3.) N 322,421,971 as cost of linking of cables to drivers rest room....

4.) N 618,604,265 for installation of Electric fittings.....

5.) N 27,000,000 for Fire Extinguishers.....

Does this mean that there are no Fire Extinguishers,No Electric fittings, No Kitchen utensils and no recreational facilities in the Villa right now? Or this is just another way to reduce wastage in Government. Because the way I see it, this is just another means of looting the countries resources


http://www.yourbudgit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Appropriation_Bill__Details_.pdf

ehissi:
Sometimes I Laugh when I hear people talk of APC and PDP and leave out the real issues that are the focus of a debate in an annoymous forum line Nairaland.

Don't get me wrong; I see nothing wrong with somebody just supporting Buhari's government in a presidential election just because he likes Buhari, but when I see people harp so much on the PDP/APC affliation; then I feel tempted to ask!

In the midst of all this party bickering; how many people even realise that Buhari was actually a former card carrying member of the PDP??

https://www.nairaland.com/174931/quit-anpp-ume-ezeoke-tells-buhari

I guess many people - including all the juvenile political critics of the individual parties - don't even know that the only reason he left PDP for ANPP back then, which is still the same reason he left ANPP for CPC which eventually merged with other parties to form APC is because he complained bitterly that at every turn he wasn't made the party flag bearer for presidential elections!

He has always made it clear, in every political party he goes that he wants to rule this country and I believe somehow God has blessed him with that opportunity; from May 29 to December 29 will mark exactly 7 months, by december 29 his government will be 7 months old!!

It is time for the fellow to encourage his members of his kitchen cabinet to shut up and get to work and stop wasting precious time bickering over trivialities that bear no value on the lives of average Nigerians!!

johnsonjosbles:
That guy never die trust me

slimfit1:
It's just 7 months old mr man complain after 2 years.

arresa:
Get back at me with your question when you are able to figure or determine how many tickets were sold, how many vendors were licensed to do business at the event, how many folks and artists from out of state and even instate lodged in hotels...




You misguided and thoughtless argument sounds more like a reflection of your own ignorance about the even especially considering the fact that this event was sponsored by private companies like sponsored by Sterling Bank, Zenith Bank, Etisalat, and IHS Telecom among many others and not the state.

Patriotic citizens supports efforts staged to unite and bring citizens together, effort staged to generate funds to take care of the same things you are crying about, efforts staged to boost the economy and put money in the same citizens pockets and so on and on...

Do a little research and secure the necessary facts before criticizing or spewing ignorance.











It's always very easy to spot your type, you represent what's bad and disgusting about Nigeria, what's best for Nigeria to you is to support the same crooked and corrupt people who brought Nigeria to her knees, we are still stumbling all over the daily revelations of looting, wholesale corruption supervised by the same stealing is not corruption crook you claimed put ,mechanism in place to fight corruption, well he did alright, he turned our central bank into ATM machine for his cronies.


Fake, mentally crooked and disingenous people like you really disgusts me...

Akathriel:
I won't be surprised if GEJ & this Angolan President are twins - simply because they reason alike.

ril19:
cm'on it's only logical he appears before the body. after all he no longer has imunity

klarke:
IS IT BECAUSE IT IS BUHARI?

I marvel at the way and manner we think in this country, worst of it the way we think in the north. It is just a few months ago that we all continually lambasted president Jonathan's cluelessness, I referred to him as the "drunken master of Otuoke", and nobody harassed me, and now because they fear the power of the media that brought them to power they want to castrate the social media, with Buhari firing the first shot in an interview with Sahara reporters' Adeola in New York, why, is it because it is Buhari?

We demonstrated against pump price increment for petrol, government of president Buhari wants us to swallow the same pill we rejected a few months ago, yet some of my northern compatriots see nothing wrong with that, is it because it is Buhari?

When three sons of Sheik Zakzaky were murdered during the Jonathan administration, El-Rufa'i called it genocide by the jonathanian army, now under Buhari more than 200 are killed, their mosque and houses destroyed under Elrufai's nose as Governor of the same state, he has not called it genocide by the Buharian army, is it because it is Buhari?

Under the Jonathan administration subsidy payments were termed as fraud, and there were hues and cries to crucify oil marketers, Buhari even called it a fraud himself, we also thought so, Six months later the same Buhari is paying for subsidy yet nobody is calling it a fraud, why, is it because it is Buhari?

We criticized Jonathan for keeping a large fleet in the presidential fleet and wasting monies on maintenance, only recently President Buhari's spokesman admitted 2 billion Naira was spent on their maintenance, when other presidents are even doing away with their jets, yet we sit down and watch helplessly, is it because it Buhari?

Fuel scarcity is biting harder, value of the Naira is going rock bottom, inflation is now on auto pilot, while profits are dropping, purchasing powers are becoming weaker, yet we are asked not to query them, is it because it is Buhari?

If we criticized Jonathan for cluelessness, we will also criticize Buhari for helplessness. While tribal and regional jingoist see nothing because it is Buhari, what I see first is Nigeria and not whether Jonathan is a southerner or Buhari is a Northerner, we. Cannot continue to be trapped in the closet of tribalism, regionalism and religious bigotry yet expect our country to remain one and grow. Yes! we might be of different orientation and background but what is good is good any where any time and what is bad is bad.
By Bright Igo Yan.

LasgidyPort:
It is u that actually sounds deranged. Instead of u to table ur points, u re being insultive to the OP. No wonder u are supporting those gangsters. You sound like one yourself.

And wait a minute, why do some of you always shout 'hate' at the mention of little criticism. It sounds so silly and cowardly.

For your information, it is the future that actions of today manifests. The OP is concerned about the future.

You are very correct, they are bonafide members of the state. But the foundation is being set for a wild wild Rivers.

We also have millions of other educated and rationale citizens of the state, that would have been a far better option than these guys.

Go and look at South American countries that made the mistake of elevating thugs and gangsters into government. The result was failure in governance with daily violence.

The result is a continued supremacy battle by rival groups and highly congested prisons. The result is daily deaths.

These guys are not states' men. They are touts and opportunists. They daily recruit thousands into their violent groups to deepen & entrench their power.

And the main challenge is not about their history as militants, it is about their modus operandi. They are selfish and empower only their own! People of similar violent mindset.

They are very violent and rule by violence. They are bullies, who does not believe in 'live n let live'.

They have the mindset of subjugating people in their area of influence.

Once you are not among, you are susceptible to be maltreated. And now when they get too powerful, the security agencies will always dance to their tune and will make them to get away with a lot of atrocities.

Before u know it now, these gangsters will be the ones setting the order of things for even the well educated in the society.

Before one knows it, they will become role models to youths, who'll believe violence and brigandage is a way of life to be successful.

Any society that wants to prosper always push forward their very best. Those who push forward their best thugs always regrets it in the future.

FOLYKAZE:
I dont have such calmness to beg some ragtags loke the army chief did.

This js government road and i am entitled to use it like every other person.

Seeing those guys wielding weapons in my face, I will order they should shot at.

The COAS is too soft. Kill as many as possible and send a strond signal this is not a kid play where you can confront your village head with cutlass

bulletproofmonk:
I don't feel sorry for Buhari,I feel sorry for the community and the many Nigerians that will be laid off.
These guys are spending money to improve your lot and yall are forming braggadocio. If it is that easy,go and drill and explore the oil yourselves.

tobimillar:
When they said social media bill I needed, this post just proved the senators right..

kurt09:
To date, there is little evidence that the government’s anti-corruption intentions go beyond the witch-hunting of the Jonathan administration.

I walked into the east wing of The Palms shopping mall in Lekki, Lagos (popularly referred to as Shoprite) only to be buttoned-holed by a man trying to sell me a Honda Civic parked inside the hall. His sales pitch was that it was the first totally assembled Honda in Nigeria; built completely to Nigerian specifications. For example, unlike the classic Honda, the Nigeria model has a high clearance, being mindful of the potholes in Nigerian roads.

I had no intention of buying a new car, least of all a Honda Accord. Nevertheless, I could not fail to recognise that what he was touting is one of the many achievements of the Jonathan administration. In spite of the Buhari administration’s daily vilification of Jonathan, the achievements of his government continue to speak for themselves.

Jonathan put in place a policy that provided zero import-duty for completely knocked down vehicles, while discouraging the importation of already assembled cars-old or brand new-by the imposition of heavy import-duties. This propelled car manufacturers to set up assembly-plants in Nigeria that provide jobs for craftsmen, technicians, technologists, engineers, and other professionals across the value chain. The government also made it a policy to patronise locally-made and assembled cars.

The outcome is that local car-assembly is back in Nigeria; literally rising from the dead. Big auto giants, including Peugeot, Nissan Volkswagen, Kia, Hyundai and apparently Honda, now either assemble or entirely manufacture their cars, SUVs, trucks and buses at various locations in Nigeria. In addition, Nigeria now has an indigenous car-manufacturing company, Innoson, which is not only selling locally but already dabbling in exports.

Limits of denigration
These days, the most discernible policy of the new APC government is to attack everything Jonathan. However, propaganda can only mask the truth in the short-term. It cannot destroy the truth on the medium to long-term. No matter what APC traducers say, the fact remains that Goodluck Jonathan was an exceptional president by Nigerian standards.

Now is the time to re-affirm this and invite a more dispassionate reappraisal of the facts, away from the lies and fabrications of the election campaign. It can no longer be argued today that anyone defending Jonathan is a PDP contractor, a favourite line of defence of Buharimaniacs. Neither can Jonathan defenders be accused any longer of wanting to replace Reuben Abati as the president’s spokesman.

“You can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.” No matter what the APC continues to broadcast about the Jonathan administration, the truth cannot be silenced.

Fashola’s gaffe

After six months of stasis, Buhari finally unfurled his ministers in the most anti-climatic fashion. These long-awaited saints and angels turned out to be mostly Santa Claus.

Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos State, is now the minister of Power, Works and Housing. At his maiden news conference, tagged grandiloquently: “Setting the Agenda for Delivering Change,” the same Fashola who spent the election campaign running down the Jonathan administration shocked his audience by revealing that, rather than embark on new road construction projects in 2016, he would only endeavour to build on Jonathan’s achievements.

When I heard this, I felt Fashola should have been given a query by APC Central for undermining the party’s official propaganda. It would appear that Fashola had yet to receive the memo that everything Jonathan is to be rubbished. On the contrary, he betrayed APC by praising Jonathan. He even acknowledged (wonders will never cease) that Jonathan constructed more roads than any other president in the history of Nigeria.

Surely, Fashola deserves to be summarily dismissed from his new post for this impolitic admission.

Wittingly or unwittingly, Fashola gave the lie to APC propaganda that Jonathan’s years were wasted years. If Jonathan was as incompetent as the APC would have us believe, why could the party not launch its own superior nationwide road-building plan, as Buhari had promised in the heady days of the 2015 election campaign? Why rely on allegedly sub-standard PDP foundations?

Similarly, rather than jettison Jonathan’s power-sector reforms that APC derided volubly during the campaign, Fashola revealed that the government will be continuing with them. Jonathan completed 10 power-plants in Nigeria within three years – the first and highest of such record by any Nigerian president living or dead.

The APC had accused Jonathan of awarding the power projects to PDP cronies and financiers who are incompetent and ddeficient. But rather than revoke those contracts, Fashola preached continuity. He also admitted that Jonathan‘s transformation in the power sector was above 50 percent, and that his job would be to build on this achievement.

Jonathan’s transformation agenda

Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, also had the same assessment of Jonathan’s achievements with regard to rail transportation. He pledged to complete all ongoing rail-restoration projects around the country started by Jonathan, as well as extend them to all parts of the country.

Jonathan inaugurated the Lagos-Kano rail line and the Port Harcourt-Enugu mass transit train. He also embarked on the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail line. Furthermore, Jonathan’s projects include the Abuja-Kaduna fast train line; the 322km Lagos-Benin City line; 500km Benin-Abakiliki line; 673km Benin-Obudu Cattle Ranch line; 615km Lagos-Abuja high speed line; 520km Zaria-Birnin-Koni line; 533km Ega nyi-Otukpo and the Ega nyi-Abuja line.

Thanks to Jonathan, five million Nigerians are now carried by rail, relative to the one million before he came. An estimated 700,000 passengers are projected to ride the Abuja Light Rail (ALR) on a daily basis. Only recently, KPMG listed Nigeria’s high speed rail project proposed by the Jonathan administration as one of the global top 100 world-class infrastructure. The rail is expected to connect Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Warri, Bauchi, Abuja and Port Harcourt, at a cost of $13 billion.

For his part, Audu Ogbeh, the new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, did not even pretend to have an alternative to Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda. Speaking at the launching of the Anchor Borrowers Programme in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Ogbeh commended Jonathan’s achievements in agriculture, while also praising his ministerial predecessor for the innovations he introduced.

Thanks to Jonathan, agriculture now accounts for 22 percent of Nigeria’s GDP, more than oil and gas, which only account for 15.9 percent. Under Jonathan, Nigeria recorded a more than 50 percent reduction in food imports, from an import bill of N1.4 trillion to less than N700 billion. With the innovation of dry season rice-farming, Nigeria reached 60 percent self-sufficiency in rice production and became, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the largest producer of cassava in the world.

Anti-corruption hypocrisy

Rather than hit the ground running, the in-coming Buhari administration has spent the last six months on a campaign against Jonathan and his men, as if it is still shopping for Nigerian votes. This campaign has become a substitute for policy, leading to the conclusion that the APC never really expected to win the election and therefore does not know what to do now it has been declared the winner. What the party did during the election campaign was to present pie-in-the-sky policies that were never intended to be implemented but were primarily designed to harvest votes.

This accounts for the government’s current embarrassment with its own party manifesto and the denial of its campaign promises. It has even led to APC legislators being constrained to vote against their own policy – the payment of N5000 monthly to the 25 million poorest Nigerians. In six months, the much-touted change of the APC has turned out to be counterfeit. What we have instead is a constant barrage of media trials pertaining to the alleged corruption of the Jonathan administration.

This anti-corruption crusade is clearly not addressed at curtailing corruption. Its primary objective is to kill and bury the PDP. Not even the most ardent supporters of Jonathan would insist that there was not rampant corruption under the PDP. What is unacceptable is the present government’s pretence that corruption in Nigeria is restricted to the PDP when, as a matter of fact, the APC is just as corrupt, if not even more because of its blatant hypocrisy.

The government’s anti-corruption crusade is already without legitimacy because it is unashamedly partial and selective. Allegations made against APC office-holders are procedurally ignored by the government’s anti-corruption watchdogs. Some of the APC chieftains accused of corruption have even been rewarded with major ministerial portfolios. Others have been nominated as APC candidates in governorship elections.

PDP members are labelled corrupt until they declare for the APC; then they automatically become saints. We are meant to believe that while the PDP used government funds to buy favours and votes during the election campaign, APC managed to spend massively to dislodge the PDP from power without doing the same. The truth of the matter is that corruption is not the exclusive preserve of any party or persons. Corruption is endemic to the Nigerian political system.

Selective maligning of members of the former government will not rid Nigeria of corruption. Neither will allegations of corruption hurriedly put together for the sake of public consumption, which are then thrown out by the courts. Corruption has to be addressed systemically and structurally. But to date, there is little evidence that the government’s anti-corruption intentions go beyond the witch-hunting of the Jonathan administration.

Jonathan’s legacies

To the extent that the present administration can be said to have any policies after six months in office, they are all legacies of the Jonathan administration. The TSA is from Jonathan. The turn-around maintenance of our refineries is from Jonathan. The re-equipping of our military is from Jonathan. The improvement in electricity is a Jonathan legacy. On the other hand, the major policies enunciated in the APC election manifesto remain essentially pipe-dreams.

In spite of APC propaganda, Jonathan’s men keep matching on. Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, Jonathan’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development is now President of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB). Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jonathan’s Minister of Finance, and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, is now a Senior Adviser at Lazzard, a prestigious 167 year-old global investment firm. Arunma Otteh, Jonathan’s Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is now a Vice-President at the World Bank.

To paraphrase Marc Antony of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interrèd with their bones. So let it be with Jonathan. The noble APC hath told you Jonathan was clueless. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Jonathan answered it.”

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arresa:
For 4 out of 5 years of Jona's presidency, Oil was selling for $100+ and his budget was pegged on $70, this is massive amount of income for 4 years and on top of that, the PDP ruled for 16 years so, do you mind explaining to us exactly what Nigerians gained with that massive incom and 16 years of PDP rule?

Was our road and bridges take care of?

Are we no longer in darkness?

Is our healthcare system up to par?

Are our schools worthy to be called schools or higher institution?

Are our public institutions competent, productive and corruption free?

Exactly what did Nigerians get for 16 years of PDP rule?

What development are you willing to show us apart from massive looting and daily revelations of looting, stealing and day light robbery?


....you have nothing to say and you don't even care about the precarious situation the PDP as the most worthless and the most corrupt and incompetent political party and government on the surface of the earth put us in, but you are here crying and yelling over a 6 months old government. Shows how crooked and corrupt many of you people are with your warped and absurd mentality.

You don't even have to worry about programs and policies that you can not see, we can see it and even the works minister just came out the other day with his plans and policies including how he's going to build the 2 NB your PDP masters couldn't build with their 6 years in office and huge resources and also the thousands of abandoned projects they left behind while looting left and right..

Who are you people fooling anyway? You care less about Nigeria and you wish the same looters, plunderers and destructive elements Nigerians kicked out of office are still running the show...

ihatesycophant:
Did you take time to read and assimilate this report? They never insinuated he's guilty but wish to get first hand info from him and other apex bank operative. How would they be guilty for receiving directive from President to disburse money to NSA office. Can't you use your brain than just swim in ignorance.

lawydewy:
hello! let's be considerate now,people just talk anyhow,most these people are using the budget of PDP led government. Biko people let's wait for their budget and the implementation. rest may case........