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I make bold to say that the highly rated professor is emphatically wrong in this one.

Does it mean that NDDC is illegal since it was totally opposed by the Executive and made to exist by the courageous NASS that overturned Obasanjo's veto?

Democracy is a representative government and moreover, Buhari wasn't an independent candidate.

modath:
No Comment.....




Oversight, oversight, oversight, the most important "function" of Legislathieves!!!

Truth be told, the project is a laudable proposal and should be supported by all and sundry.

The controversy generated by non inclusion of Lagos - Calabar rail line in the budget sterns from the initial blame game targeted at PDP Senators and by extension SS/SE regions for either not doing enough or were outrightly antagonistic to supporting it because of their hatred for Amaechi which invariably was never the truth.

Secondly, by absorbing APC Senators from Southwest of the same heat targeted at SS/SE Senators actually divided the entire South while the Northern Oligarchy plotted the imbalance and calculated marginaliztion aimed at developing the North at the expense of the South by channeling the floating N56 billion meant for Lagos - Cal rail line to Kano - Lagos aimed at completing Northern route in the shortest possible time and consequently killing off Southern route by depriving it of needed funding.


As it relates to the quote you highlighted. I support PDP's stance on the controversy because Nigeria can't continue in Economy hibernation and without budget into mid second quarter of 2016. Let the President sign the budget and forward the said project immediately as a supplementary budget unless APC knows what I don't know, which is, Buhari's lack of interest on the later hence I pitch my tent on APC stance.

Why then did the northern oligarchy remove it from the budget?

Excuzeme:
Try to get some little education first, before learning how to insult those not in your league!

Even though it s a foolish question that you asked (since the answer is very obvious), l will educate you by directing you to ONE OF YOURS who ensured that you never have good airports, in that part of the country.

Her name is STEALER ODUAH... She was the former Minister for AVIATION, and you have now made her your Senator!

Read it here: How Fraud Perpetrated By Stella Oduah Ruined Airport Remodelling Projects
http://saharareporters.com/2016/04/10/how-fraud-perpetrated-stella-oduah-ruined-airport-remodelling-projects

Yet, when the "Mallams- Senators" were diverting funds meant to benefit the South East, into Northern Projects, within the Senate, WHAT DID SHE DO OR SAY?

Okay, maybe she and your other Senators were busy finding ways to abuse Buhari and so fell asleep!

Why can't you decipher propaganda and blackmail from reality?

For once think for yourself and stop these copy and paste from Nigerian tabloids that have rendered your type more confused than villagers who have no access to internet.

Talk of education, I hear you. Would you mind getting real life experiences outside what you learnt from school or heard from news?

You're not ashamed to confront me with these junks you posted for a fact. Next time face your class than making caricature yourself. Don't think that everyone you see on Nairaland is your normal average guy.

Get lost from my mention. It's a pity you are now a shadow of your former monikers, where you tend to elevate the debate than dwelling on gossips.

Aunty Ngoo, her hair tie and flowing gown.



She refused to dress outwardly like the Europeans because she is loaded inwardly and upstairs.

tuale4u:
The president will not sign it.

Even Nigeria public and civil societies will kill it.
dead on arrival.

The act of NASS establishing NDDC was also not signed (vetoed) by President Obsanjo but the Lawmakers set aside his veto by 2/3rd majority vote.

Today, we have Niger Delta ministry and NDDC

If grazing is not supposed to be done on the farm and the herdsmen insist on continuing this dangerous inhumane economic sabotage then Grazing should be banned.

Do crops eat cows? The farmers are not the problem rather the herdsmen are hence Osho Baba should stop this mumu diplomacy and be straight forward, stop being afraid of Buhari and stand-up for your people.

Freeworldbutfre:
Thank u man. the SS/SE must come back to their scene on time b4 is too late. Is simple let say it was not there b4, but it was fix b4 d committee on lands and transport so how come appropriation committee did not see it.
They should stop using APC to cover up. Pls let them declare for PDP. is normal.

What concerns SE/SS Legislators in all these brouhaha?

Do you think that throwing up phantom insinuations to blame them will stick in this internet age.

Please get off your high horse and face the debate squarely without these foolish tribal lenses. It won't stick. Why blame the SS/SE Legislators in the opposition and not the S/West APC Legislators in the ruling party?

modath:
Two things I'd love someone to shine light on are;

1. Why did the constitution give budget presentation rights to the executive & still reposed the powers to re-assign, cut, add, remove in short rewrite to suit the NASS whims & caprices at the same time.?

2. Whose function is more germane i.e who has more authority over a particular budget item defense/inclusion/exclusion (not on funding grounds, just on viability or priority grounds), Is it the Oversight committee of that particular MDA or the appropriation committee of the whole house...

Matured & rancour free engagement would be very nice. Thank you.

Obiagelli, Tuale4u,e passingshot, 989900, Tonyebarcanista, omenka, kyase, dearpreye SOL, kingwaxxy, ladyexcellency, francizy, blueto.... & everyone!

Permit me to quote some excerpts from the publication, the legislature and the budget by the World bank

The evolution of legislative power of the purse dates back medieval times, when knights and burgesses in England were summoned to confirm the assent of local communities to the raising of additional taxes

Legislative oversight is nowhere more important than over the budget. The role of the legislature in most countries is to scrutinize and authorize revenues and expenditures, and to ensure that the national budget is properly implemented. How governance affects the wellbeing of the populace depends on tax levels, spending patterns, the impact of policies on investment and on interest rates, as well as on the ways that domestic priorities and choices interact with international economic and financial trends.

There is a general convention that has been adopted by all democracies, that the legislature is the constitutionally mandated as the institution through which governments are held to account to the electorate and Nigeria is not an exception.

The power of the purse bestowed on the Legislators provides accountability mechanisms to checkmate the recklessness and excesses of the Executive arm of the government

Excuzeme:
Thanks for your post and being direct .... while others chose to be beclouded by tribalism and hatred for Buhari, shifting the blame unto him.

Let me quote the Senators involved:

1) Senator Udoma Udo Udoma Minister for Budget and Planning,

2) Senator Ashafa , Chairman Senate Committee on land transportation

3.) Senator Senator Danjuma Goje , heads the Committee on Appropriations.

4.) Senator Abdulmunin Jibrin , House chairman on Appropriations (allocation of money to projects in Budget)


From the above, l have a few questions of my own:

1.) If there was a #54 Billion "found floating" in the budget, and this was subsequently appropriated for the two rail projects, why was the part meant for the Lagos-Calabar portion also diverted to the Kano-rail (Northern project), an unnamed (but likely a Northern one) airport security project, and the rest given to Borno Inland Port project in Niger State (Northern project again)?
Is it that the South of the country does not deserve any physical project and is being short-changed by Senators of the Northern extract?

2.) The Eastern Senators who are of PDP, were the one that foisted Saraki as the Senate President , on the nation, is this Saraki's way of repaying them, by depriving them of a project that was ready-funded and diverting the funds to the North?

3.) Where were the Senators from the East, like Tweeter Senator Ben Bruce, Stealler Oduah, e.t.c when the Northern Senators like Goje and Jibrin were HACKING the Budget and diverting funds for Southern Projects, into the North? If its to follow Saraki to the ICC for trial, they will all wear agbada but look at how they fumbled in their primary responsibility!

4.) Even if the project was not in the original budget sent to the NASS... and was later included by way of supplementary Budget addendum, why did Godje and Jubrin (both Northern Senators) remove it and diverted the funding to projects meant for the north?

5.) How did Senators of the East and PDP who supported Saraki to become Senate President, allow him to foist the two most powerful Committee chair-positions, when it comes to funding projects from the budget, to the North?
Why not one to the North and the other to the South-East, South South or South West?
I hope we are all realizing how "dangerous" this Saraki of a person is, by now?

6.) Finally, why are the Northern Senators, knowing what they have done behind our backs, trying to harass Minister Amaechi and blaming him for what they did intentionally?
Easterners might not like Amaechi for decamping to the APC but that is what politics is all about! he realized his error and quickly remembered the South/Eastern region needed this rail line so he quickly corrected himself.... only for the Northern Senators who are now blaming Amaechi, to do their hacking on the project and its funds?


If these Senators think Nigerians are fools, they have another thing coming.
They have been exposed once and for all.
Buhari needs to send that Budget back and ensure they include that Lagos-Calabar rail project into ti (and any other project they have hacked out) ... before appending his signature.

Nigerians would wait, if that is what it takes to make these criminal Senators to do the right thing.
And if they dare abuse their "powers" on Ameachi or PMB, Nigerians are prepared to match on the NASS itself.

Do you know why those against 2nd Niger bridge and Akannu Ibiam Airport are supporting this so-called fictitious Lagos - Cal rail line proposal and blaming the Easterners for the non inclusion of the project in the budget?

Stop taking people for fools and better still mind your own business and stop claiming to fight for the interest of the people you so much hate. Your hypocrisy is all glaring for any discerning mind to see.

You think witchcraft and mind manipulation are part of intelligence quotient? Never, rather discernment is?

madridguy:
If Nnamdi Kanu can be arrested and detained I don't see reason why FFK should be a freeman by now.

DSS, please go after this basketmouth and make him companion to Nnamdi Kanu or Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky.

FFK, as you are calling for war, may you never know peace again. Omo ale jatijati

When you see other people's corpse, you call it log of wood.

What a humanity in you?

Whether you like it or not, the unity of Nigeria is highly negotiable.

Fulani herdsmen cannot be allowed to move about with assorted ammunitions while intimidating their hosts who are perpetually disarmed by the law while DSS and other security apparatus become defense and intelligence arm of Fulani herdsmen.

We all say no to such arrangement hence Nigeria's unity is negotiable. Peace is not the absence of war. There is a civil war going on between Fulani herdsmen and other ethnic groups in Nigeria as we speak, only the ignorant wouldn't understand.

This is why I don't argue with political neophyte that just invaded the social media since yesterday to blame the Easterners for the failure of a "fictitious" proposal that is no fault of theirs.

seunmsg:
It's shameful the way you guys have reduced this Lagos-calabar railway to anothe SW vs SE nonsense. For Godsake, this project cut across states in the south west, south east and south south. It would ease the movement of people and goods across the entire southern Nigeria and you guys are opposing it just to spite the south west. If you hate the people of south west that much, do you also hate your brothers in the south south?

The Northerners are united in promoting the Lagos to Kano rail line, we are here pulling down each other out of stupidity. I am sure it is similar mentality like the ones being displayed here that made law makers from the south to look away when northern law makers were cancelling the Lagos-calabar railway line and moving funds meant for it to that of Kano. Who gains from this nonsense at the end of the day?

If I may ask, whose fault is it that the said "fictitious" project was removed?

Why is the Southwesterners trying so had to blame the Easterners?

Let the truth be told, the colonialists built the railways with the same purpose and objective as this Lagos-Calabar rail line. If you can decipher why the colonialists developed Nigeria railways then, you have my answers.

Obiagelli:
Why should the country only be linked by road?
Why exactly are you against this project?

Pls lets aviod this SE vs SW thing here, i need to be educated on why the coastal rail is bad for us.

Please leave Nairaland and get yourself into the real business of socio-political-economics of Nigeria to get insight on why the battle for the soul of Nigeria for better understanding of regional politicking authored by the eminent Regionalist Obafemi Awolowo.

You are not qualified to discuss this thread and so with some other keyboard warriors that just invaded the thread.

Obiagelli:
How is the ibaka port going to be different from the onne port?

How is Lagos - Calabar railway going to be different from the objective of 2nd Niger bridge.

What actually changed? Why is the southwest aggressively against 2nd Niger bridge but favours the rail line?

Hypocrites think the Easterners are still dumb.

Tokety7:

He can but chooses not to afterall he isn't bound to do so. He is an authority on the subject and has spoken. Am certain ur unbelief doesn't in anyway invalidate the fact he spoke out.

Nonsense, how can he claim an authority on a public document without proof?

Nigerians are not mumu, if he can't cite the reference then he is a liar. The burden of proof is on him and can only be confirmed from the revised version of the budget resubmitted by Udom, the special assistant to Mr President on Assembly matters and not a piece of paper Amaechi came with during budget defense.

[quote author=Tokety7 post=44607287][/quote]Can't the honourable Senator post the version of the budget he has online for Nigerians to read themselves?

Is there any secret addition that wasn't captured in the amended version posted online?

We all have the said budget, let him quote the paragraph and page or stop making ridiculous assumption.

Premiumtimesng said it couldn't report the gossips flying around from presidential kitchen because the said proposal isn't in the copy of the budget in their possession.

What is the need for the second Niger bridge and the supposed coastal railway without a deep sea in the region?

It is all about one way traffic, capital flight, unbalanced trade and economics where Western region develops at the detriment of their Eastern counterpart.

asha80:
you are talking rubbish with your last paragraph..so boreholes and town halls are what is lacking or more important in your constituency right? It must really be backward

The NASS said no going back on those project as they are meant for rural dwellers.

Nigeria doesn't belong to urban or metropolitan cities alone.

There has been no time in the history of democracy where the Presidency substitutes the "representatives" of the people.

Allow the Lawmakers do their work, NASS is not all about Saraki and Dogara rather approximately 450 elected representatives of our people.

If you are concerned about their proposals and bills, talk to them, protest their resolutions, actions and inaction. The same NASS defeated the third term agenda, stood against some "perceived" obnoxious policies of Jonathan administration when APC had their way in the chambers.

The NASS is not as immoral as the Executive where Power lies on the decision of one man. With Buhari's formula of 5% and 97%, the need for constituency projects become imperative because the implementation and execution are coordinated by the Executive.

Proudlyngwa:
Feel free to believe anything you like about where am from. It wont change the truth. I owe u no explanation.
If you know anybody in Ihie ukwu, ugwunabo. Ask them what happened at the primary school field today.

Which place is Ugwunabo? If you are from there how come you continue to make unforgivable mistakes?

It is Ugwu-na-Agbo as in two paramount ancient Kingdoms of Ugwu and Agbo.

Ishi eshi lo, gi i gwa m?

GudluckIBB:
The crIses has been on for years O! Past governments overlooked it

Now the Man they called "dullard" had come to resolve it.

Even their Phd ineffectual buffon couldn't resolve it.

We are watching !!
Sai pmb

You're among the reasons why intelligent Nairalanders are leaving.

Are you sure you read the article? On a second guess, is comprehension your problem?

Is IPMAN no longer a corrupt syndicate and subsidy fraudsters?


At last, CBN agrees to give them forex which I learnt was exclusively reserved for Dangote Refinery and Offshore companies abroad.

Proudlyngwa:
Actually over here in Abia state, its getting worse, but I know its the dusk before the dawn.
I said I would be surprised, if PDP wins in the FCT, my uncle who is a member of one of the other parties says APC is more on ground there. PDP can only try their best. APC is building from the centre.

You are in Abia State inside your phone's map or doing your youth service?

Stop claiming Ngwa, the sons of the Soil have already exposed you here on Nairaland with evidence that you're not one of them.

Free and Fair election is gone with Jonathan accept a Constituency where APC has overwhelming sycophants.

Where APC fails to win, INEC declares inconclusive for an opportunity where APC will accidentally try to pull the magic.

DaBullIT:
Iif you had any sense whatsoever


You would realize Buhari is just beginning his own government

This is the first Budget he'll actually be compiling and approving by himself

I won't loose hope on #40 Petrol per Liter just yet even if the fraudsters in the importing / independent marketing are intentionally frustrating Buhari's e

Common fraudsters Buhari can't control. Is it. Pen robbers that he can tackle with his F9 in mathematics?

Stay clear of failure before posterity judges you.

Why is there no mass arrest of these suspected herdsmen?


Now, I understand, the Police commissioner is even afraid to lunch an investigation.

Poor One Nigeria.

**** We just want an independent homeland, not that we hate Nigerians. Forgive and Forget some of our rhetorics that make you feel insulted and support us.

I pity any person that trust anything from Rochas Okorocha.

The most traveled Governor who searches for investors from four corners of the earth and found none in five years.

In every democracy, the Legislature has the purse and can pad or depad the budget as they so wish.

It is no controversy, Legislature owns the national purse.