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Funnicator:
Obailala fizznation modath sarrki and other shameless dolts have sold their soul.

Never would you see me defending rubbish, get that into your thick skull, I am not like you and your pathetic co-travellers.

While you celebrate this report which indicates that a similar sleaze which earned your hero the 'corruption' tag is also ongoing presently, I will point out what you can expect differently from what was obtainable in that past regime you shamelessly defend.

For starters, Buhari the president would never jump on TV and start calling the CBN governor (or whoever 'the group' is) names on national TV even before he reads the report. We would never get a repeat of the embarrassing past where the president would pounce on whoever reports/exposes such irregularities and gives them sack letters or letters of suspension. We wouldn't also have a case of the president becoming apprehensive and jumping into defensive mode as if to say the whistle-blower was directly accusing him of pocketing the money.

Finally, unlike the former 'America will know' dude who blatantly denied on TV that no kobo could be missing from NNPC (even before a single investigation was conducted), the difference this time is that the current president will not fight tooth and nail to throw this case away.

Rad1cal:
Your lenghty post was sadly very empty and superficial. The allegation in this report hasn't been robustly rejected by this admin since April this year and your Sanusi example just revealed you lacked focus in defending this sleeze.

A CBN governor with proof won't go from $48 billion to $ 20 billion then finally to $ 12 billion. I wonder how that is proof to you. Your highligted quote above even showed how confusing your post was.

Look at the inference below and weep at your attempt to justify this heist while seeking to use the GEJ era as a measuring template.

Just to clarify what you wrote above, Sanusi wasn't an idiot and he articulated his points very clearly without ambiguity. SLS said about $49 billion was 'unaccounted for,' meaning that no evidence was provided by the NNPC to the CBN on what it did with the money. After the dust was raised, NNPC was forced to provide further documentation and explanations which later led to the review of that figure to $20 billion. The story at the time was very clear, but for the sake of politics, so many people bluntly refused to comprehend it even till date. Fact remains that SLS wasn't an idiot just blabbing.

hmm

Ndi nku

I think Femi is on drugs, he comes up with ridiculous defences which are mostly unnecessary and embarrassing.

On the other hand, Doyin was compelled to sound the way he did just because of the love for the money he was getting.

simplemach:
The WASTE--ERN part of this country never see anything, by the time the heat comes fully on you, you will call for a rerun of the presidential election so you choose right... Ndi ara.....!!!

So are you now in support of criminals bombing critical infrastructure around the country now because you preferred candidate lost an election last year?.. Why does the black man even behave like this?

bettercreature:
A serious government would have fired Fasola because of this report

Can you kindly explain what this report has to do with Fashola?

EgusiSoup:
I listen to news from calabar and I am force to shed tears that this same Amaechi is a minister this government of Saints.

Amaechi and the APC should hide their heads in shame

Hmmm.. I didnt know Amaechi was still the governor of Rivers state in the world of some persons.

The calabar rail was started by Duke, progressed by Liyel and completed by the Prof. On the other hand, the Rivers monorail was started by Amaechi, but Wike stepped into office and first thing he did was to publicly swear he would never continue the Rivers monorail project and this declaration was greeted by a deafening applause from millions of Wike supporters (a.k.a We hate Amaechi group).

Now here we are, someone (probably a Wike supporters) thinks it is a wise thing to blame Amaechi for lack of continuity of the project?... Wonderful! wonderful! wonderful! line of reasoning!

I really don't know whether it is education we need or just psychological deliverance.

So much wisdom packed into a single short speech...

NIGER Delta militants on Tuesday expressed their readiness to engage the Federal Government in dialogue to ensure that peace reigned in the oil-rich region.

The militants said the decision to embrace dialogue was reached after a meeting held on Tuesday under the auspices of the Coalition of Niger Delta Groups.

The militants, who made their position known in a statement via an electronic mail to The PUNCH, said they had no personal grudge against President Muhammadu Buhari and were ready to work together with his administration to make Nigeria better.



President Buhari had on Sunday called on the militants to come forward for dialogue over the Niger Delta crisis.

The leader of the Niger Delta Watchdogs, General John Duku; General Ekpo Ekpo of the Niger Delta Volunteers, Commander Henry Okon Etete of the Niger Delta Peoples Fighters and Commander Asukwo Henshaw, the spokesperson for the Bakassi Freedom Fighters who signed the statement, agreed to embrace peace.

“We wish to assure Mr. President that the Niger Delta militants and the people are 100 per cent ready for dialogue. We have no personal grudge against him and his government and we promise to work together to make Nigeria better,” the agitators said.

The militants commended President Buhari for calling on the Niger Delta militants to negotiate with the Federal Government.

They, however, condemned the call by the Senate for the resignation of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Dr. Babachir Lawal, saying such a call was not in the interest of the country.

Explaining that they had uncovered a plot by some politicians to sponsor militants to protest for the removal of Lawal, the militants warned that they would resist any attempt to sack the SGF.

“We strongly condemn the recent call for the resignation of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation by the Senate. The call on Mr. President to remove the SGF is uncalled for, unpatriotic and not in the interest of the nation.

“The allegation levelled against Mr. Lawal is baseless, without facts and the handiwork of saboteurs, who are planning to bring down and destroy this government by all means, knowing very well that the SGF is the engine room of this government, hard working, 100 per cent loyal to the President and a threat to some self-centred politicians.

“It is on record that the SGF has resigned his position as the Managing Director of the company (his accusers talked about) as soon as he was appointed as the SGF.

“He neither presided over nor acted on behalf of the company anymore. However, a Senate committee refused to invite the SGF for public hearing because they know what they were up to and must deliver based on the directive from their paymasters,” the statement read.

The agitators stated that they were aware of plans to move millions of naira into the Niger Delta to mobilise some youths and militants to protest against the SGF, using some powerful governors in the oil-rich region.

I stopped reading whrn I got to the point where the so called militants were demanding the investigation of Lawal be dropped. What sort of nonsense arrangee story is this?

hush15:
Hello....

It's not like the FG prints a separate money to foot their bills....

I guess the savings is what the dullard up there gave as bail out funds

The 4.5 billion used as bailout wasn't necessarily a saving; let's not deceive ourselves. The only reason that money wasnt squandered like the others was because it did not touch the hands of the last regime; the money was owed the FG by NLNG and it was only paid after May 29th. Hallelluia! Go to the CBN website and check, $10 billion left the nation's foreign reserves in the last 6 months of the last admin, only God saved us that the dividends from NLNG wasnt paid to them too.

hush15:
That's where you wrong. Which surplus are you talking about? Is it the one save in ECA that some governors lead by Saraki or Ameachi even sued the FG that they must share by force or is it the sovereign national fund that was also declared unconstitutional....

Look, it's not sentiments. What you considered surplus then wasn't surplus. Maybe you don't understand the term surplus. Neway, I don't know bout tomorrow but today, a Jonathan government is far better what we have now. I hate to say it but it's true....

The overflogged excuse of "Amaechi forced us to share the money" remains very lame. Okay if governors took away their rightful share which is barely 49%, how come FG couldnt still save its lion share if it had any intentions of saving whatsoever?

Lezzlie:
[s]At this point, it is with a painful heart I stand on nairaland's rooftop to declare you morally bankrupt , Intellectually crippled and psychologically hollow by all measure!!!

Dullardino, the euphemism by Buhari was a lie. It is not a matter of understatement.

Whether virtually which wasn't in the OP or actually , Buhari misrepresented reality and lied. Go deal with your perceptual disturbances.

12 universities, 126 Islamic centres for learning, over 25 thousand kilometres of road, $31 billion in reserve and it's "virtually empty"?

Knock yourself hard on the head and if your brain doesn't factory-reset then donate it to autism as charity so others suffering your kind of mental handicap will be sorted out medically on time before they inhabit the cyber-world with toxic heap of rubish like you're doing here.

Buhari automaton![/s]

Go look yourself in the mirror before spewing trash.

Lezzlie:
You're still dancing around the crux of the debate like a masquerade. How is 31 billion dollars an empty treasury?

What you lack in common sense and honesty, you more than made up for in deception and subterfuge.

What about the infrastructure? He built nothing too?

Mr. Delusional vain grandstander , how is $31 billion dollars an empty treasury? What is Nigeria's budget per year ? Can you sum it up?

People like you are the impulsive lots whose emotions are 10 times faster than their brain power.

Your fingers ought to be chopped off so that you can think first with your head before rushing to comment on issues way above your IQ level.

While you accuse someone else of lacking common sense, you actually parade yourself about with the common sense of a primary school kid. Else, I wonder why an adult (supposedly educated) would expect everything to be spelt out literally to him black and white before he comprehends; or do you by chance have IQ deficiencies?

The original statement made by Buhari was that he met a "virtually empty treasury." The statement about meeting "no infrastructure" was clearly also not literal, but just a relative comparison between the funds actually 'spended' vs the infrastructure on ground.
I must have been wrong in my assumptions that you are a discerning adult, you might just need a primary school teacher to break down these statements to you level and I certainly wouldn't be able to do that. Good day!

hush15:
Sharrap there. Let him leave 2billion sef. Some people with sense and intellect will still impact a nation positive. Atleast he had 29billion and the first to do was to give yams to goats. How is he different from Dansuki?

If he can't manage " that amount you called meagre, " if they give him trillions, am very sure he won't know how to manage that too and that's evident in the way they expended the 2016 budget. It's simple, you that is faithful in little will also be faithful in much....


So pls, don't defend stupidity and incompetence out of sentiments

This thread is about Reno and the Jonathanian flock passionately defending Jonathan more than 1.5 years after elections and one would wonder if there's an election tomorrow.

The focus of this thread is about the incompetence that vaporised over $60billion in forex savings to about $30billion even at a time of unprecedented surplus income. This thread isnt talking about Buhari's incompetence that has led to his incapacity to use the very low income he now gets to turn around Nigeria's fortunes away the cesspit he met.

For not being able to focus on the topic, I wonder who's being sentimental here.

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Lezzlie:
Save your uncorrelated worthless epistle of failed logic.

The point is Jonathan left $31 billion and there's no way in the world any succeeding government will amount that to "nothing".

If Buhari has said "little", it would be understandable. That's why his lies were called out. You're pretentious and failed political hoodwinker who loves to grandstand even when he looks foolish and clueless.

Your long epistle is an attempt that depicts your frustrations at masking the obvious.

Paid sycophant.

My long epistle was an attempt to force some common sense back into your head. $31 billion for a nation of over 170million at a time when the nation's monthly import bill amounts up to $10 billion, only a pathetic defender of nonsense would feel irked when that figure is described as 'virtually empty.' Certainly, it is your type that would also defend it if Buhari leaves a measly $1billion in the reserves as at 2019, you would say "at least he left something." It would have been more honourable if you were even being paid to defend this rubbish (just like Reno was paid in the past).

Meanwhile I find it quite amusing how a passionate defender of world renown nonsense has the guts to call someone else who criticises this nonsense a 'paid sycophant.' And you begin to winder whether he even knows the meaning of the word 'sycophant.'

Lezzlie:
Excessive crude oil reserves $2.9 billion. Foreign reserves $29.6 billion.

Plus 11 federal universities mentioned and others.

People like you are without decorum or shame. Your sort are worse than criminals, you're a socio-political plague and rotten part of any system.

**Spit on you**

Sometimes I just wonder, is it out of pure ignorance or is it out of pure mischief that some people come up with this sort of arguments?.... You just aptly described yourself with those bolded words.

Someone meets foreign reserves of over $42 billion, and excess crude accumulated to over $20 billion; he also enjoys the highest revenue from oil than what every other Nigerian leader since 1958 till date ever got, as a matter of fact, the report below exposes it that in the 5 year period between 2010 and 2015, Nigerian made more money from oil than the total figure realised under every other Nigerian regime 'put together'...
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/jonathan-nigeria-earned-n51trillion-crude-oil/

And what was the result of this 'good luck' to Nigeria, foreign reserves was crashed to $29.6 (actually $28.6) billion and ECA was left with a measly $2.9 billion, and this is the sort of this thing you hail as a virtue while you claim I have no decorum or shame?... Once again, take a close look at your self and tell me whether you really know the meaning of the word shame?

Meanwhile talking of universities, while it is a good thing to set up new universities, any discerning mind knows that those universities cannot explain the billions of dollars which went down the drain. Most of the new unis were just conversions (or name change), i.e. the name of an existing polytechnic of college of education is just changed to 'University of ...' with little or no addition to infrastructure. That certainly does not explain the billions. I hate talking about the dead and forgotten past, but you jonathanians keep bringing it back up.

The daftness of some jonathanians is on steroids.

Opakan2:
I'm not hating... only stating the obvious.
US generates electricity from fossil fuels, not just coal. we have natural gas and petroleum too.

I bet you haven't heard about renewable energy.. the next generation source of power.
Discovering coal yet to be harnessed now is useless when others are trying to phase it out

you can lookup Montreal protocol or read about CFCs and HCFCs and their effects

Bro, we must learn to walk first before we think of joining others to fly. As it stands presently, Nigeria isn't even crawling. Even in the next 50 years, coal is still going to be relevant for world energy despite the current global campaign against it.

Another very important point is that even with a hundred massive coal plants in Nigeria, the environmental emissions will not be up to 0.01% of the emissions we get daily from the over 15 million generating sets that presently light up the country.

Ndolarr:
If the above is all Jonathan could achieve in 6 years, then shame on him and Reno for mediocre performance despite the huge foreign reserves and excess crude account balances he inherited and the substantial earnings derived from robust crude sales, in terms of quantity and price. Jonathan lacked leadership qualities, honestly!

75% of the things on that list are actually fake achievements and blatant lies circulated by shameless jobbers like Reno during the last election to hoodwink unsuspecting voters. What I find bizarre though is that Reno has the guts to still shamelessly flaunt the fake list over a year later even after most of the lies has since been busted and forgotten. Just imagine the insult, claiming that PH international airport was rehabilitated by GEJ, an airport which recently won the award of 'Worst International Airport Worldwide'

On Tuesday the 26th of July, 2016, President Buhari commissioned the $1.457bn Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project. This was a project built and COMPLETED by the Jonathan administration.

Hmmm, I thought this project was reported to cost about $874million, out of which the Chinese brought $500million and the rest was paid by the FG (including a final chunk paid off by the current govt before it's commision)? I wonder where Pastor Reno who accused someone else of lying has gotten this his own figures from.

Hmm... Pastor Wendell also claims Jonathan fixed the Onitsha-Owerri road and complete the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard gauge railway to 80%. Coming from a holier-than-thou fellow who accuses others of lying, these claims sound exactly like someone saying Buhari built the Abuja-Kaduna railway to 100% and commissioning.

Modified
I didn't see this before, Pastor Reno also claimed that GEJ rehabilitated the PH International airport?
God help us!

Buharimustgo:
Even though I don't fancy this pastor things,Ekiti APC went too far to say that GO Adebayo collected Hugh bribe form Fayose,for goodness everything isn't policitics,Ekiti APC statement is very bad and must be condemned, why didn't they say Sultan also collected bribe to visit Gayose

The APC person who was accused of making the statement has come out to deny he ever wrote any thing about the pastor. He has also challenged the peddlers of the story to kindly provide evidence.

Mr Wendell actually has to resort to acting like a child in order to defend his oga even in situations when a defense isnt necessary... Else I wonder why an educated adult would expect everything to be spelt out literally before he comprehends. Apparently if Buhari leaves power in 2019 with a measly $5billion in our foreign reserves, a person with Reno's peculiar wisdom would claim the reserve wasn't left virtually empty.

KidsNEXTdoor:
See madness ooo
Stay there and be blabbing
Christiane amanpour
No go mind ur business... Dey waste on time on top another man matter
Ode

"On top another man matter"

You see exactly what I'm talking about?... The foolishness inflicted by tribalism is the reason why you assume you know where I am from and also automatically assume "the matter is not my business."
#Iberiberism

KidsNEXTdoor:
ALLOW the Igbos face their matter on ground
Go to ur farm or something

Shut up there and stop being a tribal bigot. What has Nigeria even turned into in the last 2 years?.. We no longer have youths who can have a decent discussion without shamelessly resorting to some senseless tribalism.

We all sit comfortably in our homes and talk about American or other global issues, but here you are, thinking I have no right to discuss what happens in a part of Nigeria my own country because your tribally twisted mind ignorantly assumes it knows where I am from?... It's a shame what the so called leaders of tomorrow have become.