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while the Nigerian Navy will deploy 700 officers

All over the world we have career public servants and politcal appointment like commissioners et al. The difference is that commissioners are there to implement the vision of the governor/president. The DG of the ministry is to execute the th eimplentation plans of the policies. These are two different roles. DGs are used to a particular way of doing things and it is fresh hands, fresh thoughts, fresh ideas that can bring the best out of them.

In the UK you secretary of various gov depts and you have managing directors of different sectors in that department who are career public servants etc.

Go to Osun state and you will see that no govt is running in that state except the payment of salaries.

Kudos to Katsina governor for his prudent management of the people's resources.
Does anyone know how much debt Lagos state owes ?

1) There shall be such offices of Commissioners of the Government of a State as may be established by the Governor of the State

^ On the bolded: nothing is changing anytime soon in that regard, as i don't think the President has the balls to correct such an injustice (as well as many other examples that currently exist in other spheres of our 'nationhood'). If he tries to, the core northern elite will kick up a fuss, point to this as proof of Jonathans' anti-north agenda and threaten a renewed wave of bombings. Though i feel Jonathan is trying to make things a bit fairer.

All this unfairness is as a result of them being in power, and using it (esp' under the military where they had little or no opposition to their actions) to greedily skew a lot of things at the centre to their advantage. Think of the customs; judiciary; police; army; federal civil service; efforts to manage/control the environment through massive construction of dams in the north, while environmental challenges in the south (eg:soil erosion in the south east and environmental degradation as a reult of oil exploration in the Niger delta) where left to the minimal efforts of state governments and divine intervention. The examples are too many to mention here.

I just hope we are witnessing a steady change in the way things are done in this country, so no section feels cheated and that they're carrying their burden and that of other sections who -even after 40 years of affirmative action and quota system- have not yet caught up with their more progressive neighbours down south

I'm not Pro-PDP neither Anti-ACN, but to be sincere I've not seen anything really spectacular that this man has done since he was sworn in (apart from his OYES). The man said Osun is so damaged that they have to really sit down and think on how to "repair" it, maybe they are still thinking, or maybe somebody can help call my attention to something special he has done, it might be that I'm not that current with happenings in the state am residing in.

sounds nice

[size=18pt]How were you able to do the things you claimed to have done without borrowing and yet the state has about N16 billion in its account?[/size]

When we started, we had a simple approach to governance. First, we made plans and conceptualised what we wanted to do. I was an attorney general in the government of the late Yar’Adua and so I knew well how government operates. So I had a plan to move gradually in terms of development. I know that the country is littered with many uncompleted projects. Some roads have been built since the 70s but nobody cares to maintain them. I felt that there was need for us to deal with the projects that had not been completed. When you start a project and invest huge amount of money on it and you abandon it, the waste is colossal. I was committed to completing every project I inherited from the previous government. And the on going projects I met were colossal. For example, the expansion of the Katsina airport had just been awarded at the end of November, mobilisation was done in February and in April there was election and handing over.  I stayed on the neck of the contractors, and that gulped two- thirds of the budget at that time. After that, we looked at the university project that was just awarded too. Obasanjo laid the foundation.


Then foundation was just laid.  I told the contractors to sit with our officials and give me a timeline for the completion and the financial requirements. In 18 month, we completed that university. The Turai Yar’Adua Child Mortality Hospital was also just awarded.  We had all kinds of projects, so by the time we were 18 months we targeted 18 month’s completion of all the projects. How did I manage to fund these projects? The university gulped about N11.8 billion and the hostels are quite modest. It took about N800 million but the roads were the real money guzzlers, especially where there are bridges and construction of culverts. We inherited eight road projects from the previous administration. I was getting about N3.4 billion per month. I had a salary bill of about N1.2 billion and with overheads it was about N1.5 billion.

So I had N1.9 billion to play with. I felt there was need to find additional sources of income and we tried to work on the issue of internal revenue generation. We made about N130 million monthly from internally generated revenue. And by and large, the revenue will always come from Value Added Tax (VAT) and others. We were able to get 14.5 per cent interests from pour deposits with the banks and so, we were making between N500 t0 N600 million from the deposits. Within eight months, we built about N20 billion reserves. From there we were able to calculate all our projects and we decided on how much we need to spend in a month on all the projects we are doing.

In one month we will decide that we are going to spend N1.5 billion, another month N1 billion because we know what is coming in from the federation accounts and other sources. Then we made sure we had professional people who did evaluation for us for the jobs.  For example, a supplier of vehicles cannot have more than 25 per cent profit. Nobody asks you for a kobo as bribe. At the end of the day, I made sure no contractor had to see me to get a job. Once you meet the necessary procedure, you get a job; you get 40 per cent advance payment with a bank guarantee given to us. That explains why must complete your projects on time because once we give you a contract to build something and you have a comfortable profit margin it is expected that the project will not suffer hiccup.

you sound like someone with more information on this bankole issue than most of us here. please make your stand clear. are you saying ban ole is innocent of all charges or are you saying the figure(s) is(are) wrong? efcc is accusing him so it is left for him and his lawyers to say i am innocent of all or that the figure(s) is(are) not correct. if this speaker of the house responsible for making law can break the law, then tell me the hope of the ungodly nation. his father has all of a sudden become so successful in his business that he bought the necom house for N4b. in your days in uk, tell us how the situation in this country is similar to that country. yarima a senator openly told us that he has right to marry a 13 yrs old girl claiming that he obeys only islamic laws and at the same time making different laws for nigerians to work with. in a very plain language, i will pray that they will release bankole like u said and then arrest your generation both born and unborn over the unending sufferings of the poor and helpless masses of nigeria.
to me, the right thing to do is to amend with immediate effect the constitution of nigeria as it relates to corrupt public office holders to enable us give them jungle justice.
how can u have a country where politics is the most lucrative business/profession.
let God punish them all and their supporters. why will bank ole be involved in N10b and N40b fraud when the country is still in darkness? if i have my ways, i will delete pdp and members from the surface of the earth

Well done OGD! Generations would remember you as the yeye leader who bought Ogun to its knees. Oloshi lasa-lasan

Amosun, you are borrowing to pay salaries now, yet bringing in more overheads and offering free education? What is the plan? We are not dunces o.

Even the UK is having to cut here and there to reduce deficit but you seem to wan to raise the deficit.

While you're resting on your oars, IMO state governor is meeting with Fashola to discuss partnership and you are attending yeye meetings in Abuja.

You better head down Lagos and discuss how you can jointly build roads to interlink Lagos to Ogun so that you can benefit from investments and attract the Lagos populace to buy and build homes in Ogun while providing good road network to facilitate easy commute from Lag to Ogun.

Odesko

Segun is a Pari Is'he master aka chop clean mouf pesin oooo, no dash am FCT post ooo. 4 starters his role @ the FCT is nothing but a title , dats all,

He does fok all /all day long except chasing personal contracts.in Abuja, pooo, he has only bn quiet lately cos the flowing money has reduced, dats all

He should go an practice law, and learn d trade, instead of using Know all to spin himself into a Ministers Position,

this is Monday Morning Bull men, and now already this has caused a fight between the regions of the country

can we not post with out having a dig at each other Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Kanuri bla bla bla, Plzzzz

Bankole has just been bailed.

The poster of this thread is obviously an i-d-i-o-t. So we should be appointing people into administrative offices based on what their daddy did 40 years ago and not merit?

The underlying principle that informs this thread is daft. The poster should apologise for posting such a moronic thread.

what a mo-ronic suggestion.

You are campaigning for somebody you have not met or seen before? in Nigeria and you want people to believe you? Why not go to aso rock or NASS. or is nairaland now a place to solicit for ministerial appointments?

I think I also should be compensated after all I'm a Nigerian too, N1billon will be fine.

But seriously, wow "Knowitall" or rather know nothing, did you actually read what you wrote, I mean actually read and understand, so in your opinion Segun (who I happen to know by the way) should be made a minister based on his Grandfathers merits. Really I'm almost lost for words, you are obviously literate (after 3000 posts) so what is your thought process, should all Ziks children be made ministers as well?

We have a long long way to go in this country