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poshstore:
Fayose should only be a local councillor, Ekiti ppl fall my hand.

I am impeachable----Fayose.

rusher14:
Name and link reporting said story.

[size=13pt]Fayose challenges Buhari to prosecute Yobe REC for allegedly taking N15m bribe[/size]

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to prosecute the Yobe State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Abu Zarma, for allegedly receiving N15 million as bribe to influence the Yobe State governorship election.

The governor said it was only when that is done that the president’s fight against corruption could enjoy the needed credibility.

“If nothing is done on a case as clear as that of the INEC REC, Nigerians can as well kiss President Buhari anti-corruption fight goodbye,” said the governor in a statement by his spokesman, Lere Olayinka.

Mr. Fayose said it was worrisome that despite the fact that details of the two bank accounts of the INEC REC, which showed that N15 million was lodged into his accounts few days to the April 11 election, was admitted as evidence by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in the state, the REC has not been charged to court.

“It is on record that two officials of Diamond Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc, tendered exhibits confirming the payment of N15 million into the REC’s accounts by the Aide-de-Camp to Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Zakari Deba.

“The ADC allegedly paid N8 million into the Diamond Bank account of the INEC REC and N7 million into his Zenith Bank accounts on April 8, 2015, three days before the governorship election.

“As at the time the N8 million was paid into the Diamond Bank account, only N28, 000 was in the account.

“Why then is the Yobe INEC REC not being tried yet? Why has he not been charged to court?

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has found over N675.1m in the bank accounts of different Independent National Electoral Commission officials in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Delta states.

Yeecar:
Stop celebrating curroption!

Demdem2:

Please who did I bully? Who did I qoute? Only expressed an opinion.
Only cursed fools will allege but when called upon to substantiate their claims, such pee in their pants shouting bully bully bully.

NgeneUkwenu:
There is no Link anyway to the Useless news! Idiats!!

Ebukaobi:
Mynd44 rule 2 broken sir

Thanks

Demdem2:
Only fools reacts to a non existence story. A figment of imagination of a cursed wailer.
Next pls.

Details of President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed 2016 National Budget currently before the National Assembly are beginning to emerge.

According to analysts, Buhari’s budget provides a shocking figure of N1.7 billion for feeding the Presidency.

In 2015, the Jonathan government had budgeted less than N1 billion for the same expense line and his government was heavily criticised by the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was termed an outrageous figure and obscene expense by the then opposition party.

Nigerians have reacted with shock and disapproval at the outrageous budgetary provision. As usual, there is a mix of humour and satire.

[size=15pt]Here are some of the top tweets on the subject matter[/size]:

Aso Rock will be feeding with N1.7b in 2016, the devil is a liar

— Adeyanju Deji (@adeyanjudeji) December 27, 2015

You say Buhari doesn't eat much yet u budget 1.7bn for Aso Rock feeding,700m above his predecessor's budget. Who r they feeding, boko haram?

— CAPTAIN (@PaulUtho) December 27, 2015

Amidst scarcity, Aso Rock is cutting costs and feeding with N1.7B in 2016 as against N1B in 2015. God punish devil, liars and hypocrites.

— olutoyosi omotoso (@iToyindahouse) December 27

I need someone to work the mathematics behind this Aso rock feeding budget for me.

— Je m'appelle Bimbo (@damdamo4u) December 27, 2015

Budget proposal is out and guess what; feeding for villa is N1.7 billion, we know the noise ya'll made when Jonathan budgeted N1 billion?

— RankyLicious (@patoranky) December 26, 2015

N1.7 Billion for pap & bean cake isn't too much for Buhari's austere lifestyle.. Please criticize objectively! https:///pNYgKNvX9P

— bα̲̅bα̲̅tunde (@babsacademy) December 27, 2015

I need a state house invite ASAP.. Gotta know what kinda meal baba is eating for N1.7 billion just for research purposes.

— dozie nwafor (@TheNwafor) December 27, 2015

"@GarShehu …" what do u expect? To be hand dressing u? In the 2016 Budget, Buhari's APC led Government budgeted N1.7 Billion CHANGE!!!

— sola dave (@hallmarkhitech) December 26, 2015

News out there suggest that the presidency budgeted N1.7 Billion for feeding in 2016. This is a waste of scarce resources.

— IKECHUKWU (@iykimo) December 26, 2015

NIGERIANS WE R IN TROUBLE O… What kind of food costs N1.7 BILLION? Should we ask the Social Media Change Agents? They have eaten from it

— Brave (@LadyMacbethh89) December 27, 2015

So is OK 4 Buhari to feed with N1.7 billion next year but was wrong for GEJ to feed wit 1billion naira. @segalink @RealSeunKuti @Oddy4real

— Benjamin Godwin (@BengoddyOfLife) December 27, 2015

Buhari was presented as spartan. Frugal. Milo sachets were presented as evidence. How many milo sachets will N1.7 Billion Naira buy?

— RADICAL OF MYSELF ⚡ (@RadicalYouthMan) December 27, 2015

N1.7 billion on food? Yam eating has started too early fam!

— #IStandWithWike (@PrinceCBN) December 27, 2015

When GEJ's govt budgeted N1 billion for feeding, heaven came down. Now, @MBuhari is about to lavish N1.7 billion on food. Nobody's talking!

— #IStandWithWike (@PrinceCBN) December 27, 2015

When you can barely feed but your president is eating N1.7 BILLION food pic.twitter.com/fscJAj2gXf

— Brave (@LadyMacbethh89) December 27, 2015

When your neighbors cld not afford rice 4 Christmas but hear the president is living "LAU LAU" on N1.7 BILLION food pic.twitter.com/AD45y5rhJx

— Brave (@LadyMacbethh89) December 27, 2015

I support N1.7 Billion feeding for one year. Buhari needs all the food he can get to work optimally. https:///gPkuCZFOj4

— IKECHUKWU (@iykimo) December 26, 2015





http://www.thetrentonline.com/god-punish-devil-liars-and-hypocrites-nigerians-react-to-buharis-n1-7-billion-budget-tweets/

President Muhammadu Buhari in an interview with Mansur Liman of the BBC Hausa service on Christmas eve, spoke on a number of issues bordering from Boko Haram to how his Government plans to Source Funds for the implementation of the 2016 Budget.

Below is the translated version of the Interview

Q: You recently submitted the biggest budget estimates in Nigeria’s history to the National Assembly, and this came at a time the price of oil has drastically gone down in world markets. How do you intend to get money to fund the budget?

A: As a government, we inherited N1.5 trillion domestic debt and when foreign debt is added we have about N2.2 trillion. Everybody knows Nigeria is not a poor country, we are rich, and we have human resources, the problem had been that leadership did not take seriously, curbing corrupt tendencies.

Apart from highlighting our debt profile, we have also shown the changes we have made in the Customs for instance, how; much we are making from the Customs service, how much from petroleum, that is NNPC; how much we are making from the ports. There have been lots of leakages in these sectors. If we block these leakages, we would make much more money to run the country despite the fall in the price of oil.

Q: Are you sure you can block all the leakages? Because if one looks at it, it was just the leaders of these agencies that were changed while most of the lieutenants who were part of the system of the “leakages” are still in place. What do you think would change to make sure that “business as usual” does not continue and Nigeria would get those monies?

A: It is generally believed that a fish begins to rot from the head; once the head is rotten, the whole body is also rotten. We have tried to remove all the heads of the organisations, and most of the lieutenants have been changed. A lot is happening in this government that people do not appear to understand; many permanent secretaries of ministries have been changed; we used to have 42 ministers, now we have 36 because the constitution requires that each state of the federation must have a minister; we used to have 42 ministries, now we have 24.

Q: You have also allocated 30 per cent of the budget to capital projects; what informed that decision?

A: It is a must. Remember during the campaigns, we said Nigeria is facing three things and nobody disputed that assertion. Firstly; there was widespread insecurity, war in the north east, while the country’s oil was being stolen at random in the south; secondly; there is massive unemployment, 62 per cent of the nation’s population are youth from the age of 35 years downward; most of them are unemployed, including those who went to school and those who did not, that is a serious problem. Therefore, it has become necessary to restore peace and create employment.

That is why we are returning to agriculture and mineral resources. Thirdly, bribery and corruption was basically suffocating the country. If we don’t kill these monsters, this country would go down.

That is why those who stole monies meant for arms procurement and shared it among themselves are being arrested and are being shown documents, so that they would be asked to refund the money or face prosecution; we would use those documents to prove what they stole, collect all the assets acquired from the proceeds and then jail them.

Q: You have initiated a programme in which poor and vulnerable Nigerians would be paid N5,000 monthly; what have you put in place to ensure that there is justice and fairness in the running of this programme?

A: It is not possible for everyone needing it to get it; but the Federal Government has said it would collaborate with the states and local governments. At the local government level, almost everyone knows each other. It would be easy to identify those to give who would go into trading and how to get it back. It would be like a cooperative and we all know how it operates. Also, state governments would identify those who have capacity to employ more people and all we need to do is to empower them. Our people already know how to go about implementing these modalities to create employment for the citizens.

Q: You earlier mentioned Boko Haram. After your assumption of office, you gave a deadline of December to bring an end to Boko Haram insurgency. We are almost at the end of December, does it mean you and the armed forces have failed?

A: I want people to understand that after I settled down and got good grasp of what the country is going through, we removed all the service chiefs and appointed new ones. We also undertook an investigation and found out how the monies meant for arms procurement were diverted and shared by officials in the last administration. They sent the boys to the war front without arms and ammunition, leading some of them to mutiny after which they were arrested and detained.

We have been able to raise money and fund the war. Go and ask the people of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa; how many of their local governments were under the control of insurgents? And how many are currently still under the insurgents?

May be we would not win the war completely by the end of the month, but the insurgents have now resorted to putting on explosive vests on young children, mostly girls aged 15 and below and then sending them to markets, mosques and churches to detonate. Boko Haram themselves know that the era of them taking over communities and local governments are over. If people would be fair to us, they would know that the Nigerian Army has basically met the deadline and are winning the war. You cannot find any significant number of Boko Haram members in Adamawa, and Yobe, only may be in about three local governments of Borno in the area around our borders with Chad Republic. They are not in a position to threaten Nigeria now, so we have won.
http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/buhari-speaks-to-bbc-hausa-reveals-source-of-funding-for-2016-budget/


Interview Culled From PremiumTimes. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/195790-buhari-speaks-how-we-intend-to-fund-nigerias-n6-trillion-budget.html

BeeBeeOoh:
Liar Mohammed is a pathological liar with no shame & conscience..

An APC govt will impact the citizenry 1st few months, to an extent that Nigerians will have a better 2015 Christmas -Lai Mohammed (Dec 2014)

aresa:
Saying he's entitled to his opinion and his opinion didn't stun me is quiet different from saying he's nobody.

Reading and comprehension is really not a hard concept..

aresa:
Sorry, I missed the coronation that crowned him your king of social media? The fact that subservient is your portion in life doesn't mean it's same with other people.

I don't even know what another man's vocal presence on social media got to do with other people beliefs and state of mid.


Obviously, sad effect ignorant and unintelligent people with internet access...

aresa:
What is so stunning about a Nigerian expressing his own opinion?


You silly village TaNoids come up with the most ridiculous and absurd rubbish ever...