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Sincere 9gerian: I've seen the dates. I've withdrawn my initial post. Goodluck to the project and the good people of Osun!

We were not told WHEN work on project will start nor WHEN the hotel will be ready. Yet the so called "retrogressives", who abhor MEDIOCRITY, are popping champagne and celebrating. Yeye dey smell for dis thread!

Sincere 9gerian: .

Sincere 9gerian: We were not told WHEN work on project will start nor WHEN the hotel will be ready. Yet the so called "retrogressives", who abhor MEDIOCRITY, are popping champagne and celebrating. Yeye dey smell for dis thread!

To be financed by Keynes Private Equity, the hotel, which sits on about three hectares of land, is expected to be completed within 18 months.

desgiezd: A lot of positive things are really happening in this state since Rauf came in as the governor.

Toktee: You can believe anything you want to,but not every nigerian ix blind like u,the figure shows that unemployment stand at 80%,the state are been owned to the tune of 33bn,labaran maku said,if federal gvt pay ASUU 92bn nigeria will seize to operate,airline are threatening to pack to ghana,nans are threatening to join ASUU nxt week cos of inability to pay their salaries,you are here playing politics with reality,,wake up bro.

warlei: U took the words out of my mouth.
Let us build and build
Who says we aint ripe?
We are more than ripe.....
If God makes. I t possible for me i would invest more in the yoruba hinterlands.....

nagoma: It's cold out there, and there is no rule against that anyway. They are not there for fashion show. They are encouraging Asiwaju to 100% health and planning how to send the tyrannical PDP government out for all of us.

It said in a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, on Thursday, that
officially-induced oil theft, dwindling returns from oil
and massive looting of the treasury, were pointers
that Nigeria was on the brink of economic collapse.

My discussion with Tinubu yesterday – Ogbeni Segun Adekunle-Alli Jr.

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Snippets of Discussion I had with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday borders around the different interpretation & rumours about his debilitated deformity unable to walk.

Despite people calming people’s frayed nerves that’s it’s not true. Asiwaju Tinubu’s simple response to the teaser raised was a wry smile and responded:

“our country is going through a phase and we are still in process of evolution and we still thrive on “rumour peddling & ignorance still permeates our society a lot but we will get there someday”.

He wasn’t perturbed by people’s agitation but focused on his own plans and desired vacation for himself, which he claimed he hasn’t taken since 1998 and desires it badly now, he strongly feels one needs to take his health serious and he’s decided not to neglect such which might be detriment with taking enough rest at desired times.

Orlando Owoh: Osun State, or State of Osun as the Governor would call it, has tourist sites that attract foreigners. Besides, Ile-Ife, believed to be where the world was created, is in the state. No state attracts foreign tourists like Osun State. The location of an international airport in the state is for the convinience of tourists.
Oya bus driver take me to Lagere, where I will take okada to where Opa Oranmiyan is located in Ondo Road, which will be inaugurated today and tomorrow as a world heritage site by the Ooni of Ife, Alaayelua, Oba Okunade Sijuade, the Olubuse 2.

olaife80: Osun again, where wil southwest states be in the next few years. Ogun state is also proposing cargo port with world class infrastructures like light rail. Tnk u God u dont give us gov that wil be using our money to by Gulfstream. We wil get there, congrt osun.. Bad belle wil surely die of BP.
We wil surely get there..[color=#006600]

Nigerian state plans Africa’s tallest building

Published on August 16, 2013 by · 18 Comments

The Ogun State Government, western Nigeria, on Friday demolished its old Secretariat at Oke-Ilewo in Abeokuta, the capital.
Mr Mohammed Affez, Lead Urban Designer and Project Director of Abeokuta City Centre told newsmen in Abeokuta that it was demolished to give way for new Abeokuta City Centre project.

Affez said the master plan of the project was being finalised and would include 60-storey skyscraper hoped to be the tallest in Africa.
He said the project would be handled and financed by Urbanisima Ltd., a Malaysian company.
“There would be adjoining structures which would redefine the landscape of the capital city.
“Others are shopping mall, recreation centre, signature tower, office complex, hotels and world class convention centre.”
The demolition is being carried out by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCEC).
Recently,members of the state’s Technical Committee on the project visited Malaysia for a week-long training on the design of its master plan.

dayokanu: I am sure Osun has more industries than your state

Paul John: It will mainly be for cargo and may be for passenger in festive periods

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove


The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess of fertility Osun, one of the pantheon of Yoruba gods, the landscape of the grove and its meandering river is dotted with sanctuaries and shrines, sculptures and art works in honour of Osun and other deities. The sacred grove, which is now seen as a symbol of identity for all Yoruba people, is probably the last in Yoruba culture. It testifies to the once widespread practice of establishing sacred groves outside all settlements.

Outstanding Universal Value

Brief synthesis
A century ago there were many sacred groves in Yorubaland: every town had one. Most of these groves have now been abandoned or have shrunk to quite small areas. Osun-Osogbo, in the heart of Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, founded some 400 years ago in southwest Nigeria, at a distance of 250 km from Lagos is the largest sacred grove to have survived and one that is still revered.
The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove is some of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Through the forest meanders the river Osun, the spiritual abode of the river goddess Osun. Set within the forest sanctuary are forty shrines, sculptures and art works erected in honour of Osun and other Yoruba deities, many created in the past forty years, two palaces, five sacred places and nine worship points strung along the river banks with designated priests and priestesses.
The new art installed in the grove has also differentiated it from other groves: Osogbo is now unique in having a large component of 20th century sculpture created to reinforce the links between people and the Yoruba pantheon, and the way in which Yoruba towns linked their establishment and growth to the spirits of the forest.
The restoration of the grove by artists has given the grove a new importance: it has become a sacred place for the whole of Yorubaland and a symbol of identity for the wider Yoruba Diaspora.
The Grove is an active religious site where daily, weekly and monthly worship takes place. In addition, an annual processional festival to re-establish the mystic bonds between the goddess and the people of the town occurs every year over twelve days in July and August and thus sustains the living cultural traditions of the Yoruba people.
The Grove is also a natural herbal pharmacy containing over 400 species of plants, some endemic, of which more than 200 species are known for their medicinal uses.

Criterion (ii): The development of the Movement of New Sacred Artists and the absorption of Suzanne Wenger, an Austrian artist, into the Yoruba community have proved to be a fertile exchange of ideas that revived the sacred Osun Grove.

Criterion (iii): The Osun Sacred Grove is the largest and perhaps the only remaining example of a once widespread phenomenon that used to characterise every Yoruba settlement. It now represents Yoruba sacred Groves and their reflection of Yoruba cosmology.

Criterion (vi): The Osun Grove is a tangible expression of Yoruba divinatory and cosmological systems; its annual festival is a living thriving and evolving response to Yoruba beliefs in the bond between people, their ruler and the Osun goddess.

Integrity
The property encompasses almost the whole of the sacred grove and certainly all that has been restored over the forty years before inscription. Some of the recent sculptures are vulnerable to lack of regular maintenance which given their materials – cement, iron and mud – could lead to potentially difficult and expensive conservation problems.
The Grove is also vulnerable to over-visiting and visitor pressure that could erode the equilibrium between the natural aspects and people necessary to sustain the spiritual qualities of the site.

Authenticity
The authenticity of the Grove is related to its value as a sacred place. The sacred nature of places can only be continually reinforced if that sacredness is widely respected. Over the past forty years the new sculptures in the Grove have had the effect of reinforcing the special qualities of the Grove and giving it back its spiritual qualities that imbue it with high cultural value.
At the same time the new sculptures are part of a long and continuing tradition of sculptures created to reflect Yoruba cosmology. Although their form reflects a new stylistic departure, the works were not created to glorify the artists but rather through their giant size and intimidating shapes to re-establish the sacredness of the Grove. The new sculptures have achieved their purpose and the Grove now has wider than local significance as a sacred place for the Yoruba people.

Protection and management requirements
The Grove was first declared a National Monument in 1965. This original designation was amended and expanded in 1992 to protect the entire 75 hectares. The Nigerian Cultural Policy of 1988 states that ‘The State shall preserve as Monuments old city walls and gates, sites, palaces, shrines, public buildings, promote buildings of historical significance and monumental sculptures’. Under the Land Use Act of 1990 the Federal Government of Nigeria conferred trusteeship of the Grove to the Government of Osun State.
The Grove had a well-developed management plan covering the period 2004 – 2009 that was adopted by all stakeholders and the site enjoys a participatory management system.

The Federal Government administers the site through a site manager of the National Commission for Museums and Monument as empowered by Decree 77 of 1979. Osun State Government equally contributes to its protection and management through its respective Local Governments, Ministries and Parastatals, who are also empowered by the state edicts to manage state monuments.
The community’s traditional responsibilities and cultural rites are exercised through the Ataoja (King) and his council - the Osogbo Cultural Heritage Council. There are traditional activities that have been used to protect the site from any form of threats such as traditional laws, myths, taboos and customs that forbid people from fishing, hunting, poaching, felling of trees and farming.

The traditional worshippers and devotees maintain the intangible heritage through spiritualism, worship and symbolism. There is a management committee made up of all cadres of stakeholders, that implements policies, actions and activities for the sustainable development of the site.
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is also part of National Tourism development Master Plan that was established with World Tourism Organization (WTO) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The annual Osun Osogbo festival will need to be better managed so that the site will no longer suffer from adverse impacts of tourism during the festival.
The Grove will also serve as a model of African heritage that preserves the tangible and intangible values of the Osogbo people in particular, and the entire Yoruba people. As a source of pride to them, the Grove will remain a living thriving heritage that has traditional landmarks and a veritable means of transfer of traditional religion, and indigenous knowledge systems, to African people in the Diaspora.

Paul John: Heya, egbon gbawe I've already posted it. 20min before you did.
https://www.nairaland.com/1454755/model-mko-abiola-international-airport#18375526

Thanks though, it's for the betterment of osun.


Osun tin dara

Sincere 9gerian: Exactly! @Gbawe will be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the moment. If I were him, I will temporarily drop the moniker, Gbawe, and be a guest for now.

taharqa: Gbawe

https://www.nairaland.com/1438608/keyamo-emerges-consensus-senatorial-candidate

legalcode: Nobody is making any mockery of him. All we demand is that the true position of things should be made public. "Those that live in class houses should not throw stones" remember when the same 'you' the oppositions where crying blue murder when Dame went for her own medical trip? and also the Gov of Enugu State. Now its your turn so deal with it. If Tifnubu is healthy as u sound, let him come out for public assessment and also publish his hospital details.

Boll2010: Well deserved

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is strong, healthy, fit – JOE IGBOKWE


Since our leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu went for a knee surgery few weeks back his political enemies have been polluting the political space with blatant lies, dangerous rumours and deliberate falsehood. We have completely ignored their antics and ugly effusions believing that they will grow up and come off their wickedness but these guys can never say enough is enough. Again, we know that Asiwaju poses the greatest threat to these minions in their quest for unrestrained power to despoil and law the country waste as they have been doing for the past fifteen years.

They have been dreaming and wishing that our leader will disappear, vamoose, get lost or even die so that APC will crumble. In their wildest imagination they pray to their gods to take Asiwaju away so that their wicked plots to continue to plunder Nigeria will continue unhindered. If you ask PDP leaders, they will tell you that the biggest obstacle to their pet project of continued milking of Nigerian resources and gang rape of Nigeria is Asiwaju and his APC. The plunderers, looters and armed robbers will wish that Asiwaju goes away and never returns so that the fraudulent market will continue to thrive and flourish. They will wish that Asiwaju never returns to threaten their commitment to steal every election. The visage of how Asiwaju single-handedly wrestled them to the ground and recovered the South West still conjure nightmares to every PDP member and they have been displaying such in their every action since that great recovery happened.

But those wishing harm to Asiwaju are in for another great disappointment because the Asiwaju is not going away and leaving them to enjoy their license with governance in Nigeria. No, no, Asiwaju will not disappear. Nothing will happen to him. Asiwaju has not finished his business on earth. God has not finished with BAT. His associates are dearly in need of their well-respected leader. His wife, children and the enlarged family still need him around at least in the next 50 years. Nigerians especially the poorest of the poor, wretched of the earth, the downtrodden, the have-nots, the dejected and the rejected still want him around. The APC family in Nigeria needs Asiwaju as they have not needed anything. Africa needs the leader of the opposition in Nigeria. The Nigerian progressives and all lovers of progress in Nigeria need Asiwaju more especially now that rodents and pimps are fast eating off precious lives of Nigerians. At a time when government has been debased to a con art and where Nigerians are serially duped and robbed by a horrible government, we need Asiwaju to join forces with other concerned Nigerians to rescue the country from bad and rudderless leadership. The world needs the Asiwaju.

Our leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an ordinary mortal like everyone else. He can be sick, he can get fever, he can get headache, he can undergo surgery as a human being. May we never celebrate the ill-health of someone else. May we never smile at other peoples’ misfortune. May we never dance on other peoples’ graves. May we never pray for others to go down so that we can rise. This is the philosophy of cowards, the antics of the foolish and scoundrels, the game plan of charlatans, and the way of nitwits.

Thank God, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is hale and hearty, strong, sound and fit. As the despicable losers are busy making mockery of themselves, Asiwaju BAT and General Buhari are busy in the United Kingdom searching for solution to the country’s lingering political crisis. As the 21st century fraudsters look forward to celebrating BAT’s exit, the man of the moment is planning ahead for the appointed time.
Joe Igbokwe
Lagos

Ngwakwe: Stop this your obsession with desire for bad news and negative analysis as to justify your disapproval of GEJ's regime.

You have all the time to be balance and objective in your analysis but have chosen to go extreme left thereby blaming some particular personalities where the entire system needs to be restructured.

The transparency of this government has helped you and me to know more about the system than what was obtainable in the past where every activity of the government is shaded in secrecy.

Nigeria: Crude Oil Theft - Doom Looms as Govt Loses N365 Billion in July
BY JIDE AJANI, 25 AUGUST 2013


N365billion is a lot of money. Worse, N365billion is a lot of money to lose in just one month. In any currency, in any clime, under any circumstance and for any people, that amount is huge. To put it in proper context, consider this: N365billion naira is the equivalent of not less than $2.25bilion.

The now contentious military assistance that the United States of America, USA, provides to the Egyptian military annually is the equivalent of $1.2billion.

This is an assistance that the Egyptian military eagerly awaits and uses to its fullest. Just recently, the State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, revealed that Washington still hasn't delivered some $585 million -- almost half the annual military aid package -- for fiscal year 2013, to the Egyptian military.

Pray, which country on Earth would have its Minister of State for Finance, announce glibly, that it recorded a revenue loss of N365billion in just one month? From President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to the Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, the Finance Minister and co-ordinating minister for the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Presidential Adviser on Amnesty, Kingsley Kuku, the lamentation song that the theft of Nigeria's crude oil is doing grave damage to the country's economy, has become all too familiar.

Whereas the military task force that has been bursting illegal refineries continue to do its work; Whereas there has been a number of successes recorded in the attempts to pick up some hoodlums who engage in pipeline vandalisation; Whereas there is an almost weekly bulletin heralding exploits of arrests and display of suspected pipeline vandals; Whereas the Minister of State for Defence, Madam Olusola Obada has been crying that European governments should come to the aid of Nigeria in the fight against crude oil theft by refusing to buy the stolen products; Whereas the International Oil Companies, IOCs, have also been lamenting the loss of crude;

Whereas it has been generally acknowledged that some powerful, very powerful Nigerians are behind the crude oil theft; Whereas government itself has not come out to provide the exact volume of crude exported and produced per day in its strictest sense; Whereas the actual number of barrels lost per day to oil thieves hover between 400,000 and 600,000; Whereas, whereas and whereas... ... Now, therefore, it should be admitted that either a paradigm of recklessness or irresponsibility or both has taken over in Nigeria. N365billion loss! Strange but true!

After three weeks of investigative work, Sunday Vanguard discovered that the only authority that can stop crude oil theft in Nigeria is the authority of anti-corruption. The discoveries went as far up to link friends of those in very senior positions in government and in the IOCs. Firstly, a government that is at pains to give an accurate figure regarding export volume can never be said to be sincere about stopping crude oil theft.

At best, what that tells the oil thieves is that a commodity the volume of which cannot be certified and verified, ab initio, would be difficult to calculate in terms of losses; and at worst create a free-for-all environment for the sustenance of the theft.

The regular stunts about burning and destroying illegal crude refineries are no more than submissions to tokenistic dramatization of a sense of duty because the real crude oil thieves continue to thrive with the active connivance of those making the hundreds of millions from the crime.

Does this administration know that there could be a correlation between a government collapse and crude theft because with such losses, it would find it difficult to run its business and the people could in turn rise against it?

Yet, had the theft been an activity being carried out in states controlled by the opposition, the hired guns who are quick to read-meanings, no matter how warped into anything, would have insisted that opposition parties want to sabotage government.

Mind you, the states where the theft is happening are controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including President Jonathan's own state of Bayelsa. Had it been happening in Northern Nigeria, it would be interpreted as part of a bigger anti-South agenda. In the final analysis, it should be borne in mind that crude oil theft, in its very pure, undiluted form, also includes the misapplication of revenue accruing from its sale.

The following report is just the first part of the reports from the investigation. N365billion loss in the month of July! And there is no protest? And the people and government are going about their normal business as if nothing has happened? Really strange!

Shine It: Stop bursting your vein on resources that don't belong to you. You should be concerned on the fall in prize of cocoa not oil.

Shine It: Shss!! Do not talk about Yoruba leaders if you're not Yoruba, says Gbawe.

Is this the same Gbawe of "clannish"&"GEJ" fame?

I hope this is not the same Gbawe that have erec..tion any time GEJ is referenced.

But wait, Gbawe can can work himself to a frenzy because GEJ is our leader.

Did I hear someone say GEJ is our leader?

Has Gbawe accepted GEJ to be our leader?

Culled from pages 7-10 from "The Gbawe Jokes" by comedian Dayokanu. We lead and you follow, suck.errr.

djon78: Honestly I think it is high time the money sharing is reduced by 50 percent , then with time completely stopped. Let every state source for its fund to run its government, this every month going to Abuja to share money is one of the major factor holding this country from moving forward, it has bred laziness and irresponsibility from especially the governors. They should look for ways to generate money simple.

States reject N548.393bn
Posted by: Nduka Chiejina, Abuja in News 6 hours ago

Embarrased by the stalemate of the August 2013 Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting yesterday, the Federal Government released N548.393 billion as the August statutory revenue for the three tiers of government.
According to a statement from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), this disbursement “is an improvement over the figure of N497.984 billion as made available at the Federation Accounts Allocation (FAAC) meeting “ for the month of July allocation.
Responding to the walkout by Commissioners for Finance over an outstanding N75 billion expected from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, said efforts were being made to resolve the outstanding issues.
The statement said the OAGF promised that “FAAC has received assurances from NNPC that the issue is being dealt with with dispatch and that a positive outcome is expected soon”.
It also said that the government was exploring all avenues to end the shortfalls in revenue caused by oil theft and vandalisation as soon as possible.

However, the state governments rejected the disbursement saying it has loopholes. Chairman of the Commissioners Forum Timothy Odaah said: “The hasty and limited disbursement is to ensure that they (Federal Government) short circuit states. They should have addressed us at the meeting earlier today.”
Odaah insisted that the decision by the states to walk away from yesterday’s FAAC stood “until governors meet with President Goodluck Jonathan to resolve the problem”.
He said the delay resulted in delayed payment of civil servants’ salaries.

According to him, the N548.393 billion “hastily” released falls far short of the budgeted N630 billion expected to have been shared by the three tiers of government for June and July. He said it had been agreed that from August only the actual accruals would be shared.
Odaah, on behalf of the states, demanded that the N121 billion outstanding for June augmentation be released along with the backlog of augmentation and budget benchmark for July.

State governments, he said, “have relied on this budgeted figures to incur financial commitments up to the point where it was agreed that no more augmentation will be paid from August because this has been appropriated”. “As from August, states will act frugally because they know they will only get actual accruals without augmentation.”

Fed Govt starving states of cash, say commissioners
Posted by: Nduka Chiejina, Abuja in Featured, News 5 hours ago

•N548.393bn allocation rejected
Is Nigeria broke?

Despite Finance Minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s denial, states left Abuja yesterday empty handed.
There was no cash to share as the monthly Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting was aborted — for the second time this month.
The chairman of the meeting, Minister of State for Finance Yerima Ngama, failed to show up. No reasons were given for his absence.
Besides, the arrears of the N366 billion expected to have been paid in by the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) is yet to be paid.
The chairman of the commissioners, Timothy Odaah, decried the situation.

Odaah, who is Ebonyi State Commissioner for Finance, said: “It is like the states are being starved of funds by the Minister of State for Finance, giving us the theory of handle the dog with great starvation and whichever way you want him to turn, he will turn.”
The states, he said, “are not dogs; we respect Mr. President and are calling on him to hear this.”
He said commissioners and the state accountants-general were invited by the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Jonah Otunla, but he had nothing to tell them and was as confused as the state representatives.

Odaah said: “For the second time within the month of September, the FAAC session has been stalemated. We were invited by the Minister of State for Finance, who is the chairman of FAAC, but we have not seen him.”
According to Odaah, Otunla instructed him as chairman of the Commissioners Forum to invite his colleagues to yesterday’s meeting, but at the end, Odaah said, “he (Otunla) was more confused than anybody”.
He said he wanted to let us know that there was no change.

[b]Angered by the action, the state governments, Odaah said, had warned the Ministry of Finance “not to invite us until all issues are settled”.
Odaah added: “We have imperative demands, augmentations and differentials in benchmark, which we listed. We agreed that there would be no further augmentation in order to clear the backlogs.”

At the first botched FAAC meeting in September, Ngama and the commissioners agreed that they would not “dip hands in the reserve which made us to believe that the NNPC has brought in something this time”.
Odaah said: “It was agreed that the augmentation backlog till July should be paid because states had entered into financial commitments, relying on benchmark expectations, the tendency is that states are in a bad shape. Past augmentations should be paid but from August no state will enter into new contracts.”

“However, up till now, there has not been any augmentation, no clearing of the backlog. The worst effect of this is that it is having a retrospective effect on the states and local governments. As a result of this uncleared backlogs, states rely on the budget in order to secure financial commitments and handle security issues and issues of contractors. We have issues of insecurity, among others. Just clear the backlog and we get along,” Odaah said.

Ngama, according to Odaah, is “ playing levity with our case”. “We have been slighted; contempt has been poured against the states to the extent that the interest of our states and local governments is suffering. He has treated us with contempt and treated our states and local governments with contempt”[/b]

The way forward, Odaah said, “is that the state accountants general, commissioners for Finance on the directives of our governors are going back and should not be called back until the conditions we give are met and the President must be informed.”
The commissioners went on: “To have called us without any improvements in our demands is a great slight and has shown that the minister does not brief the President. We know the President as a good leader with listening ears who would have attended to these problems immediately if he was aware, but it is like Ngama tells him he will control us. We do not support this situation. The minister should be competent enough and show that level of competence. The minister is running FAAC as his own show.”

Last week, Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi said states were short paid in their July allocation. According to him, of Rivers’ N19 billion allocation, only N14 billion was paid.
Amaechi said this is an indication that the government is broke.
He reiterated his call for Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to resign “if she cannot manage the economy well”.
But the minister insisted that government was not broke.
According to her, an indication of that is the payment of civil servants’ salary for September.

Pukkah: ^^^^^How can any responsible government look on with this kind of mind-boggling theft on a massively grand scale?