₦airaland Forum

farem:
Why do they desert this thread?
Truth is bitter and it's tormenting to the liars

AZeD1:
Official corruption by the presidency?

Who is the president that hired a certificate forger as minister of finance? You do know forgery is a crime right?

Who is the president that has a minister that hasn't served contrary to the law of the land?

The people who collected bribe are currently in the same party as the president.

AZeD1:
Which credible leader are you talking about?

Which Ipob member are you referring to?

4dor:
If the National Assembly is booing you there's a good chance you're doing something good.

AreaFada2:
The system encourages corruption at all levels. No point trying to be hypocrites. NASS members have to do constituency projects, give constituents cash, schloarships etc. These are projects the FG, State and LGAs should be doing and providing a proper social welfare system. Not Parliamentarians. They are there to make laws and act as check and balance.

We have a nebulous system that promotes corruption.

oginnite:
Some people didn't even bother to read the body of the news but only read the headlines. Please form the habit of reading the news well before commenting. Thanks

“This became the price to pay to have the 2015 budget passed.”

Xisnin:
Fake news from the stable of the nation who knows that many Nigerians will believe their lies and
not ask questions.

Any civilized and informed person knows that Lobbying is an inherent part of a democracy
with separation of power.
Even in advanced democracy like the US, the president must make trade-offs with the legislature
to get his projects approved.

But some caveman who don't understand how government works are angry because the strongest
National assembly in Nigeria's history refuses to rubber-stamp the executive "requests".

The 17 billion naira is not a bribe as no lawmaker received a personal alert based on it.
It was for projects that some lawmakers deemed important to their constituents.

IamaNigerianGuy:
Is that what you read in the article ?

AZeD1:
Which party had the majority in 2015?

“This became the price to pay to have the 2015 budget passed.”

Agritech:
If only Jonathan had the guts of Buhari

https://thenationonlineng.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Okonjo-Iweala-891x470.jpg


Former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has revealed the blackmail and arm twisting that characterised budget passing by the National Assembly during the Goodluck Jonathan Administration.

She cited an instance in 2015 when the National Assembly leadership forced the executive arm to part with N17 billion for the federal lawmakers to pass that year’s budget.

That, she said, was at a time crude price had gone down drastically.

The N17 billion alleged bribe, according to Okonjo-Iweala in her book Fighting Corruption is Dangerous:The Story Behind the Headlines, was besides the NASS N150 billion annual ‘standard’ budget.

She described federal legislators as a tough political group to deal with.

Her words: “The legislature was concerned largely about three things—the size of its own budget; the nature and the size of the capital budget, particularly investment projects; and the number and geographical location of the projects.

“Senators and Representatives felt that their role as appropriators of the budget was not just to vet and approve budget parameters and oversee budget implementation, but also to shape the size and content of the budgets, including details of specific projects.”

She said members of the NASS Finance and Appropriation even felt ”they had the right–indeed the duty–to get into the details of the budget formulation and preparation process all along the budget value chain.”

The ex-minister said the NASS leadership, working through the various committees, “sought to add more to individual projects or create completely new, unappropriated major projects, thereby distorting the budget.”

But she explained that “not all National Assembly members supported these unfortunate manipulations of the budget.”

She added: “National Assembly members had negotiated large increases in the National Assembly budgets and would brook no discussions or challenges on the issue.

“Their operational budget had ballooned to N150 billion or 16 per cent of the budget and almost 3.5 times the 2006 budget (in naira).”

Okonjo-Iweala said when it was proposed that the lawmakers should give up some of their benefits in view of dwindling revenue in 2015, they bluntly refused to do so.

“By the time we presented the budget on December 16, 2014, oil prices had fallen further to $58 per barrel.

“We were prepared and we knew we had to trigger the additional expenditure and revenue measures in 2015 to make the budget work.

“This would be tough, given that we had entered an election year,” she said.

”Indeed, legislators initially refused to accept any cuts to their regular N150 billion budget, despite dwindling revenues.



“This became the price to pay to have the 2015 budget passed.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/we-gave-lawmakers-n17bn-to-pass-2015-budget-okonjo-iweala/

OlaPhils:
DOES IT MEANS THAT THESE BASTARDS CAN NOT IDENTIFY GOOD THINGS WHEN THE SEE THEM?
OTHERS ARE IMPROVING WITH LATEST BUILDING
THESE OLD FOOLS ARE STILL BUILDING OLD FASHION AIRPORT.

NO BE PERSON BUILT THESE ONES BELOW!

bigpicture001:
...two terminals were built at the Lagos int'l airport during pdp.

If u want to talk abt how contract are awarded nd adhered to...then go read about what is called the due process procedures of doing things. the PDP set that up particularly." the bring back our girls converner.dr Ezekwesili.

Wot u meant was that project has never been done since16 yrs and finished except for this one just because ur APC did it...well guess ur still very young and not aware of happenings in naija during PDP. u only became enlightened yestaday nd unfortunately, u were fed with lies...

Do u know naija experts zero gas till obj came in..? He built NLNG trains 1,2,3,4...and PDP built till train six..that alone earns ur poor country multiple billions in dollars now.....


I repeat av seen the light b4 ; this darkness can't deceive me with coruption slogn.....

ozo13:
all this ur long story.wr are the solid infrastructures to show for all the oil money the country has earned in the last 18yr .I learnt 400billion dollar equivalent to roughly 67trillion naira using 169 naira per dollar exchange rate under Jonathan alone.let's say he used say 32trillion naira to pay salaries during his administration , please show me the solid infrastucture the remaining amount was use to erect before u start saying am young about happenings in the country .thanks.

yarimo:
Bad bele go kil senator OLUJEMI from ekiti state and FAYOSE On top BUHARI matter.

chiangwar:
Those are project he meet on gram , can he commission the once he rel foundation?
For this four years ?

NOC1:
why address him as Stupid for just saying Sai Baba, let us stop killing ourselves for people who dont care about our existence.

in Governance project can be started and completed by any body, they said government is a continuum. littering the country with abandoned projects is a sign of a failed Nation.

i commend the administration that started it and equally thank those that commissioned it, let us join hands and make this country a great Nation because we dont have any other one.

God bless Nigeria.

Ogaga87:
Shay na Saraki be their employer abi

You baffled me

Lucid1:
He probably thought there was no justification for going on strike.

Personally I don't think striking is the best way to solve disputes of this nature but Nigeria isnt a sane clime so anything goes