₦airaland Forum

agabaI23:
SE APC una follow?

You object?

The project isn't beneficial?

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

You killed it, buried it & given it a befitting "owanbe" with this here...

This here sums up my position!!!

We can't let "them" keep us down & out or use the welfare of the citizens to settle political scores!

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

I, in my personally capacity, never absolved anyone of blame, they are in cahoots, however political/caucus affiliation & sectional divide is what is esentially strangulating the inclusion...

where there is COHESION + WILL, getting a bypass to make one's WAY out of the thickest of forests will be like child's play.

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.

Nothing was floating, if you recall, this budget was termed "budget of errors", why then are people only picking from the buffet table of bias what they will "allow" their primordial sentiments can construe as "errors" in this budget,

Why is it then difficult to "assume" or even look the other way & "agree" it was an afterthought, then "insist" the south can't be left out cold!

The northerners saw a gap, exploited it, drove another big wedge into it & took home the spoils of war!

Can't fault them for it, we claim to be bookish, they don't argue with us, they will employ cunny & street smarts to achieve their objectives!

Shebi our people watched while both chambers Appropriation comm heads were given to the northerners? Issokay!

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

You really believe we can find another "floating aimlessly" couple of billions to finance this? Our Legislathieves know exactly what they are doing!

They took from 4bn from Min of health vaccine budget & gave to CCB, changed infrastructures development fund to Keke Marwa constituency project fund!

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.

Buhari's lack of interest?? Nah, not true.

Agreed he made the 5% speech which was totally uncalled for & not very charitable, this rail line benefits the south west as well & who would throw away an opportunity given on a platter of platinum to solidify his political base?

You too think am without any interference of preconceived notions!

sofnana:
Long time ago

...... in Bethlehem. ....

The closed-door session where the resolution was taken, was clouded in heated arguments as some senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, insisted on capturing the Lagos-Calabar rail project in the budget, while those from The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stood firm that the President must assent the budget and later submit the project in a supplementary budget.

Vanguard gathered that the Senate President, BukolaSaraki, who presided over the one hour long session, upheld the latter due to overwhelming support for it.

No Comment.....

He said having passed the budget, “we are moving
into the second phase of our responsibility, which is
oversight.

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

Khd95:
Op ya playing with fire,posting personal contacts of senators isnt a nice thhing at all,

anyways iam +1 today,beautiful people of nairaland,show me love abeg

OP only "re-posted" on NL.........People's reps/senators contact details shouldn't be shrouded in secrecy & should be available for those the claim to "serve" to access....


Happy birthday. ....

P.S ... OP, credit the source..... *copyright*...

bejeiodus:
Which of the several accounts of events should we believe? By the way, could you kindly post the viral screenshot of Jibrin's message? It is viral yet many have not seen it. Isn't that curious? As for the slashed budget of the Ministry of Health, you are only trying to elicit an ebbing support for a failing president.

The best way to bust a lie is to counter with fact.When you are ready & willing, you'd know where to "search" to find what you require.....

No one needs to drum up support,neither does liking the person of Bubu anyone's headache anymore, to each his own!

Na Oyingbo market, cares not about absentees!!!

isysleek:
Do I have to have an account with them?

Yep & since they are the new bride in town, heard they've started the 6mths thing... try to waka there & see, luck....nothing ventured, nothing gained..

Try Unity as well, cool bank.... wish you success in the waka, preggy & stress,not easy.

Iwanawana:
@Modath, making tired pregnant women wait endlessly I don't even find amusing. What was amusing me was raising left nyansh for them! Cracked me up for real. But truth be told, Chicago and Houston Poes reach to raise both nyash for one after the other. Infact even with thighs join sef.

Nah, you misunderstood me,I gatchu 't even talking about you, I meant ME... I can laugh now! You get?

Chicago POE can't be described, na see dey make am real, when others gave account, I felt, ahn ahn, e nor fit bad reach, but nah, they ain't loyal!!

Seen a viral screenshot of Jibrin's text message apologising to committee members for "forgetting to get back" to them about the content of the budget sent back to the executives...

4bn was slashed from Ministry of Health's budget & added to CCB's budget...

Funds for Vaccines for very sick & vulnerable people & to protect children from infant mortality was given to CCB... even unrepentant haters of Nigeria & good tidings will find it hard to defend this travesty.

Kennydoc:
Why is it that people like mo.dath will never make a comment about this? All you APC supporters are shouting about the corruption perpetrated by Jonathan's government, but I ask you, is this not a worse form of corruption - keeping silent while the people you swore an oath to protect are being slaughtered like animals in their ancestral homeland?

Mo.dath and co, imagine that this or the Agatu incident happened in your home town and your close relatives were affected, would you still keep quiet? The government is boasting that Boko Haram has been eradicated, meanwhile Fulani militants have continued from where BH stopped, but nobody is saying anything. Is this fair?

The Bible implies that the soul of one person is worth more than the whole world in the scripture, "what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul". How come Buhari and the entire FG have refused to address this herdsmen issue?
I know they were there even in Jonathan's time, but quite frankly, their attacks have been multiplied now.

Why are the FG and many politicians keeping quiet? Why? Why are mo.dath, Omenka, NgeneUkwenu, Passingshot etc not saying anything about these killings?
Fulanimafia, do you really feel comfortable with what your kinsmen are doing? Mynd44 and mynd, are you both okay with all these?

What exactly am I suppose to say? Of all problems bedeviling this country, this is the most distressing..

I condemn with deep emotion, & with clarity ALL senseless & wanton taking of lives, destruction of properties & trampling on people's rights........ (check my profile, I'm sure posts will come up)

However I'm not going to say much on NL because I've known about these murderous bands even before the "birth" of NL, they only gained so much attention now that SM is the norm, They've always been this way...... Ghanians, Camerounians,in short most of WA!

This is a 2012 story!!!!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/suspected-fulani-herdsmen-sack-villages-in-plateau/


& one truth we also need to face is that most people expressing outrage are not doing so because they are saddened or are sincerely pained, they know why they are doing it!!!

Is it not same people that will turn around to mock Omenka with Agatu massacre, Yoruba with Olu Falae's abduction & the Ibos with the defilling of innocent women?! No I won't be coerced into joining the purposeless baying.

These murderous cretins restrict their blood letting to the South & NC with few & far between attacks on the agrarian NE communities.

Rather than sustain agitation, soon as the dust settles on any recent attack, some will go back into default mode of mocking the victims!!! Wish arms could be easily procured by southerners, scores need to be settled!!

BTW, I didn't check the first page, once I see graphic accompanying a story about "killing", I can't bear to look.........

“But we must remain guided by the constitution. That we pass the budget has not ended our responsibility. We have to move to oversight functions.

54bn floating indeed!! oversight AKA kickbacks or "your boys are loyal" is the bedrock of this impasse!! Tiffs dem!

Anyhow e go be, that coastal rail line must happen, NASS "saboteurs" will fail! Amen!

searchng4love:
modath, are you wailing?

I Offend you? You don see meaning of "wailing"? I nor dey sorrow!

However Bubu is not perfect, but love "tolerates".

TheGoodJoe:

What about the goods Igbo traders import from Cotonou? I guess they do not need Railway to transport their goods to Aba and Owerri.

You are not just the good Joe, you are a JOLLY good fellow.... on point allday, errday.

Lovexme:
Only lazy people use abbreviations when typing. I'm mostly irked with I see people use kk in place of OK or Okay. I mean, dafuq?!

You "k" or "kk" me, I'm ignoring you.

Wht do u xpct m 2 say abt dis ur aticul now?

chukwudi44:
Saraki is also a Northerner and has also gotten 82 senators (more than 2/3) to pass a vote of confidence on him before.Forget Tinubu!! This is national politics

Saraki is also a northerner?? Pa Chuks, you nor go kee person

Make I leave you to continue to La La Land, you and reality nor get association..

Saraki the Ilorin northerner.

chukwudi44:
2/3 of the NAS can override the president's veto and pass the bill into law

Pa C, can you actually swear that in your heart of hearts, you believe the northerners will align with that?

Ordinary small kwanta between Kwankwanso & Ganduje, with the latter alleging that kwankwanso is working against Bubu...... Kano people already don stop donning his kwankwansiyya cap!!

See as our South people bungled the Lag-cal rail thing, we all know that if reverse had been the case, we would not have peace!

North think brotherhood, before politics!!!

Just as they have the powers to "tweak" the budget, so does the constitution empowers the president to veto any bill!

At this juncture, all that is left is to count the days to 2019, this present NASS case is a forgone conclusion, Nigeria nor fit see any profit from this transaction, make loss nor too plenty na the only prayer.

TonyeBarcanista:
You have summed it. Our legislative representatives have been so myopic. They couldn't even take advantage of the Ashafa leverage. Once again the Northern guys exposed them.


I still don't understand why the North should be getting appropriation committee chairmanships almost all the time

They don't get BOTH all the time, it's just this 8th NASS of disaster..

tuale4u:
@ Tonye Barcanista thank you your objective write up.

NASS has constitutional power to add and to remove items........ . The money is too close to what is needed for lagos-calabar rail to be by accident. I think the Calabar - lagos rail was already planned to be in the budget submitted to the NASS. But was mistakenly absent as item but was present in the total sum.

Jibrin & co knew there was no "floating" nothing, he & his bros in the senate only played a fast one since they know we won't even come together to fight as one voice..

There is no way Rotimi Amaechi will be defending that project before the Senate without full Buhari approval. Also if the project was not very important to the president, I dont see how the president will delay his assent to a budget because of an Item he doesnt care about. However for the initial omission, the presidency deserve some blame. But atleast they tried to remedy it.

Truth be told "Bubu Bungled Budget" , but we'd excuse it as beginner's error, Next one, we trust, due diligence would b done....

TonyeBarcanista:
Apologies if you feel insulted. I only asked a question.

This is one thing we always have back & forth about, don't moderate your own thread, let it be organic... respond to questions posed or clarify knotty issues when needed... don't spend valuable space & time "clapping back"!

Welcome EVERY opinion, good or bad!! Pius Adesanmi's Posts get both adulation & condemnations but he doesn't allow it derail his course from what he loves.

My 2k!! Peace out..

Sincerely, Buhari wasn't really interested in the said project perhaps because it wasn't in the North.

I was about to get on my soap box & fire some sly digs but the captioned below caught my eye & I sheathed my sword!!

We have to be united in this "fight"

This blame game is diversionary and we will not be distracted by the antics of enemies of the South and the country as a whole.

Jibrin & Goje didn't see anything wrong in unilaterally appropriating scarce resources for Keke Marwa purchases & inclusion of 30 states (not even federal) roads without widespread consultation...

I'm still asking won't stop cos everyone is "hiding their heads in the sand"; how did our southern unpatriotic & selfish NASS members allow both Upper & Lower Appropriation chairs from same "place"?? How?

Was it part of their deal with Saraki & Dogara?

Apart from their dignity, did they also pawn off their sense of responsibility & belonging too? SMH!!

seunny4lif:

But some subways are like dat
Like here U-bahn are underground but some route are outside

Nope, look that pic wella, nor be underground train!

Moreover, it's not a recent pic, do a reverse google search, you'd see it show up.

Keneking:
But where is lalasticlala sef

Which Lala, nor be only Lala na Lolo!

Na so Subway dey look? That is our naija airport shuttle..

Iwanawana:
LMAO... chai nawaooo!

E funny now but that scene + the endless wait nor funny then ooo, after positive thinking, my mind will then veer to how i wont even bother to call my H . Dearest to pick me up.. Would just take the next flight to Lag , enter lag before calling him & just hide in my MIL's bedroom till baby come....

Frenemies plenty, nor be me person go laugh, but God didn't abdicate the throne, it was the wait that was long & nerve wracking, the main interview wasn't so bad..

However on my return journey back to naija with baby, dem still go lay siege for plane mouth, planning to cancel Visa if i use medicare (& maybe collect "dem" pikin) but my receipt was in my hand luggage, so e pain dem small!! Nor be me, if dem plan to catch today, na next week be their portion..

If not what happened in 1914 would repeated have itself!!

Chicago POE........ ..uhhhmmmm

cc happytbaby

omenka:
The Lost Ones will now remember Dangote is a Muslim, just as they've forgotten Zakzaky is also a Muslim.

#DisgustingPolitics.

Why is your brain so sharp?

BTW you forgot to include a Fulani Royal prince!! from Sokoto!

I'm going to repeat this as the Saraki VS APC supremacy battle has totally robbed us of all sense of responsibility.... Na awasefs we do for south with this Politics of bitternness!!

Kyase:
Babe one thing is certain, The north rules
Call your NASs reps in order, ours are representing wellwell

Go Joor, you think I'm complementing una? Not at all, enslaving others is not a positive attitude & don't forget that of 16yrs, the South held on for 14+ yrs!!

Just reiterating the sad state of affairs down south!

anonimi:
Why would anyone be bragging over being a slave- irrespective of the degre of servitude?
Why?

You should have gotten my drift, creative licence!! it's called "Irony"..

You can respond with a foto that captures something "ironic"... thx.

sCun:
Who dey drag slavery with you? Die alone in your slavery. Igbos will never join ypu in being slaves to the north.

You are no "slave" & few leaders dictated who to "hate" to you, based on primordial sentiments & "air brushed" account of a regime that you probably never experienced!!! I don't even know why we are having this debate sef!!

8yrs of Presidency is nothing to be sneezed at!! Not something some are likely to experience in the next 20 years!

Pidggin:
May North rule SW forever

sCun:
North will rule Yorubas till thy kingdom come.

See una... You think I'm going to argue or start schlong measuring contest about this? Nah... the facts are bare, however.........SW has had 8 uninterrupted years & still sitting pretty NOW, all slaves are not equal!

One slave pass another! Some are serfs, some will be in perpetual slavery!!



Anonimi

Welcome back,missed your foto session!

TonyeBarcanista:
My position exactly! I have never seen where a minister will bring his own extra budgetary provision outside what the President submitted. Nigeria is not running parallel presidency. The Lagos-Calabar Rail project was NEVER in the budget.

Bubu never intended for Lag -Cal but you agreed there was padding, lots of errors & ommissions in the budget ba? & 54bn was wakaing aimlessly in the budget too?

NASS unilaterally changed the budget proposal for provision of infrastructures to purchase Keke Napep, cut the budget for special vaccines & such nonsense.... but they couldn't work the rail into the budget despite finding "purposeless" money floating like rudderless ship in the budget? Issokay!!!

Walahi, na North go rule us till thy kingdom come! Na dem be baba!!