₦airaland Forum

hush15:
That's the latest word in town....

Saboteurs, vandals.

For a government who never believed in such words prior getting to power.

I remember one of Fashola's interview when he boasted of how he powered street lights and governments facility with independently generated power supply and said if only government could remove the "the national grid clause", that he would generate enough power that could light up the whole state.

Now has the authority to push for it and yet he is still complaining about saboteurs and vandals...

Smh... He is completely insane

He's got 3 years to redeem himself. His first budget was only passed last week remember?

tinktanker:
it jus appeared on nairaland

That it appeared on nairaland or that it was shown on NTA where people were lamenting the stopping of the project, does that necessarily make it to be true?

tinktanker:
d news you quoted can also b govt influenced. N i told u i saw it on nta news but u chose to ignore dat due to bias. N of course d govt must come up with a cock n bull story to support dia decision to stop all gej project. Just as he sacked d vc's of d 13 University gej built. N later shamelessly called dem back. After zombies will say gej Did nothing
http://www.dailynigerianews.com/2016/03/31/outrage-and-anger-as-buhari-abandons-2nd-niger-bridge/

Are you aware that the government of Buhari has been running on GEJ's budget of 2015 which set aside virtually nothing for the ministry of works?.... Sometimes I wonder why people just make comments and judgements out of pure emotions. The link you pasted clearly stated that the contractors weren't paid, hence they abandoned the site. Buhari only just got his first budget passed last week but you blame him for stopping GEJ's projects?.... Did GEJ budget anything for the projects in 2015?... If not, with what money were you expecting the FG to pay the contractors?

Now while people lament the stopping of the project (which was due to the non-payment of funds in 2015), the FG has said it budgeted money for this very project in 2016 but you still cannot discern what that means?

ugnmezi:
so ur daft brain jus hinted u dat savages started bursting pipes in this regime. vandalism is as old as 1970s

Did I mention anywhere that vandalism started in this regime?.... Kindly point out where I stated that vandalism started in this regime, if you cant then we both know who the daft one is.

Much ado about nothing!

How can work continue on the project when money hasn't been released?

Can someone kindly mention the federal works project that happened in the entire 2015?

Buhari just had his first budget passed last week and N17billion was budgeted for the said 2nd Niger bridge. The same last week, a N350billion stimulus was released to resume abandoned federal projects and the finance minister rightly announced that the priority projects are the Lagos Ibadan road and the 2nd Niger Bridge. So what exactly is this large scale wailing all about?

http://www.punchng.com/n350bn-package-lagos-ibadan-expressway-2nd-niger-bridge-to-benefit/

Adaure4ever:
Is South East no longer part of Nigeria? why are the FG presence scarce in the geopolitical zone.?
Can God bless an Igbophobic country that is built on hatred, bitterness and unjustified blood shed?

Stolen:
Buhari hates the igbo but cannot tolerate Biafra.

Please when we want to wail, let's do it with a little bit of wisdom and with some due diligence in getting the right info first.

tinktanker:
This was also on nta news today. Dats where I heard it first. http://fojusi.com/outrage-south-east-president-buhari-led-fg-abandons-2nd-niger-bridge-project/

Just last week, you heard the finance minister say on tv that priority projects meant to be resuscitated with the N350bn stimulus were the Lagos-Ibadan road and the 2nd Niger bridge. But yet you still choose to fly along with a story from a sensational tabloid?... Na wa! http://www.punchng.com/n350bn-package-lagos-ibadan-expressway-2nd-niger-bridge-to-benefit/

By the way, according to the link you posted, work was suspended due to lack of funding. Buhari only just got his first budget passed last week and his finance minister has announced same time that priority funds would immediately be made available for the bridge project. For the records, the suspended work has nothing to do with Buhari.

OLADD:
I am sure Fashola never thought of turbine malfunction or pipeline vandalism before boasting to deliver stable electricity in 8 months during the last election campaigns. Anybody that takes Nigerian politicians (progressives or whatever they call themselves) for their words is on his/her own.

Meanwhile, someone should help ask the MODS why I was banned for 1 week.Nobody can close our mouths from speaking against this deceitful APC govt.

Lol... you were banned for breaking simple NL rules, you probably must have resorted to insults when you ran out of what to say.

okeyglm:
oga but you said power supply is not a rocket science.
do the needful.

Of course it isn't rocket science, 'rocket science' is something which is too difficult for the average mind to understand. But we all understand the reason behind the power outages, savages are bursting gas pipelines for fun.

tinktanker:
sorry son buhari has cancelled d second niger bridge.

How can Buhari cancel the 2nd Niger bridge project yet his works ministry budgeted N17bn for the same bridge in the 2016 budget and his finance minister said this about the bridge just last week?

http://www.punchng.com/n350bn-package-lagos-ibadan-expressway-2nd-niger-bridge-to-benefit/

2rutalk1:
. It is either you cannot read or you cannot comprehend or both.

But the report says 1pm till around 3pm while the person you subtly insulted said he had light by 2:10pm? Except of course Eket is powered independently.

I think the nuclear plants should be located in the far far north. They need electricity a lot there and I hear we have some uranium deposits in the north east.

Lol... This is a record breaker

But then, did all the gas plants and all the hydro plants simultaneously just switch off at the same time?.... Or could it have been a momentary instrument failure causing the system operators/TCN to be unable to measure total power produced?... This is a real record breaker if true

fiftynaira:
Abagworo just dey deceive non imolites...

That road was only made possible to be plyable by N.D.D.C and not state govt!

May God save you the day we will start revolution in imo.

Alusioji:
bros its not IMO state goverment. I passed through that road on saturday . It was done by NDDC. their sign block was boldly place at both ends of the umuapu road.

The Op did not say IMSG built the main federal road. Rather, the internal city roads which are presently being used as a detour to by-pass the bad spots have recently been built by the IMSG (as shown in the pictures).

chudionu58:
Keep quiet! irredeemable zombie trying stylishly to salvage anything left of this clueless government and even appropriate any achievement of the much maligned predecessor. As a matter of facts which we all know you deliberately chose to ignore
1. Owerri-Omanelu Federal highway was awarded in March 2010 at the cost of 21 billion, I guess your Yar Adua was in power then.Over the years, that road has suffered from underfunding because of the quest to fund the East West road under the Same ministry.
2. Two sections of Enugu-PH expressway was awarded in August 2013 to Setraco and Arab contractors for 124 billion, while the remaining sections(3&4), where awarded to CCCECC and the CGC in late 2014.
3. Enugu to Amansea was awarded in Dec 2014 @ 24 billion, to RCC after the termination of the previous contract to CCC and Niger Cat.

So dear (fool), these are Jonathan's projects which Buhari should do well to complete(If he likes).

First of all, I see no reason why you must throw insults such as 'goat' and 'fool' when you want to pass a simple message. It speaks volumes of your personality and you would be banned if you persist.

Regarding your comment, you claim a road project was awarded as far back as 2010, but for 5 solid years, users of the road have been going through hell. You quote beautiful figures as contract awards for these projects but nothing was on ground for 5 years to reflect your beautiful figures. My friend, just in case you are new to Nigeria, it is not all about announcing and publishing on paper that x-y-z amount has been awarded for a project, if that was the case then OBJ and his military predecessors should take all glory for all the roads built in the last 17 years because contracts were also awarded for most of these same roads under OBJ. As a thoroughbred Nigerian who understands the double-speak of dubious politicians, what matters most is if the physical cash was actually released to contractors for the projects and if the project was actually executed.

As far as common sense is concerned, your Jonathan spent 5 jolly years enjoying unprecedented oil income but he left the federal roads in the SE to deteriorate to their most horrible state.

chudionu58:
How does that inspire some propaganda? This is a road that should have being built since years for the good people of Ohaji, but the irresponsible IMSG abandoned it for years and was castigating Orubebe and Jonathan?? Now you want us to start clapping for him and then shower praises on Buhari for completing Jonathan's project with 2015 budget? You shot yourself on the foot, crass propagandist.

When you blame Buhari for the lack/suspension of construction projects in the entire 2015, you conveniently did not remember we have been running on Jonathan's budget till date. Threads have been opened on this site asking what the projects of Buhari are besides helipad but you conveniently forget that it was Jonathan's budget. Now a long abandoned road project appears to have been resumed in 2016 and you suddenly remember that 2016 budget hasn't been passed?

By the way, what do you mean by IMSG abandoning the building of a federal road?... IS this supposed to be a lame attempt at 'blame game'?

scachy:
Op don't add or subtract facts, reconstruction work has been on going on this road for a long time. and it's still not completed sef.

Just the same way construction works have been ongoing on the benin-sagamu road for ages but the worst portion was fixed in 2014. The fact remains that the road 'APPEARS' to now be motorable for the first time in a decade. Still waiting for regular users of the road to confirm its true condition.

dechriscool:
Whoever came up with this deception is aim at deceit,the usual Apc antics.I am a regular user of that road when plying portharcourt to owerri.GEJ awarded the contract of that road construction
Rochas has no hand in the construction of any part of that road.The work on that road started before 2015 election,that was aim at wooing the south east to vote for GeJ.The road construction was done in parts.The construction started from the concord axis of owerri and got halted at Ohaji almost after the imo state polytechnic.The other axis of the road was under demolition of few houses for expansion of that road.THe only governor that contributed a little to that road construction was Rotimi Amechi of Rivers State.He constructed the Elele axis down to some kilometres before umuapu.So stop giving Gej project to Apc government.This was one of the Gej project in the south east,Buhari refused to review.Another Gej project is the Umuahia road of portharcourt,Aba,enuguroad.

GEJ awarded the road and it was built in 2016?... By the way, it was even Yaradua who first awarded the contract for that road. But all through Yaradua's time and all through GEJ's 5 years, commuters have suffered horribly on the road and now it suddenly is GEJ's award when the road is built in late 2015/2016?.... I suppose the internal city roads which serves as a detour was also built by your Jona right?

How could humans deceive themselves so badly like this?... What sort of evil deceit is this?

Very soon the Onitsha-Enugu road would be fixed and someone would also claim that GEJ awarded the contract. So also the PH-Enugu road, someone would also claim GEJ awarded the contract and therefore it is GEJ's road. Tufiakwa!

Reference:
Abi oh. Even if dem dey tiff coal to roast bole. E no go bad lak dis.

Yeah, even if coal is stolen, it would be in the proportion that could lead to a shutdown of coal plants. Also, unlike gas plants which go off pretty soon after a damage to the pipelines, coal stock could be stored up to last up to a week or more within the plants.

Integrityfarms:
Didn't Fashola and Buhari know all these before taking over power? Did we vote them in to complain or to find the solutions?

You do not mark the exam scripts of a student when the exam is still ongoing; it is meaningless. Fashola and Buhari have spent less than a year in power and a full tenure lasts 4 years; a reminder just in case you are oblivious of that.

Presently, Fashola and Buhari are working to fix the problems which couldn't be fixed by your heroes for decades and there is no way you can define where you are going to without appreciating/talking about where you've been. Once again it is senseless to expect such a rot which couldn't be fixed in 16 years to be fixed in 10 months.

Stolen:
Onyeama is even more eloquent than John Kerry.
When u here him speak, u wonder how we ended up with the Daura Dulllard aka Buhari as President.
Onyeama is exactly how the President of this country Nigeria should look and sound.

It may take up to a century from independence before Nigeria gets an eloquent president again.

Integrityfarms:
And the blame game continues as if there has not been pipeline vandalism since the days of Adam!

Meanwhile the Power minister is now daft, deaf and dumb! He can't prove his rocket science technology of power supply 24/7

And the globetrotter is junketing in America in an uninvited mission!

There has always been pipeline vandalism; it badly affected power generation in the past, it is still affecting power generation today and it will always affect power generation as long as we continue to have savages who sabotage pipelines just for the fun of it. I don't also trust the pipeline operators in their repair works on these damaged pipelines.

At this point, I think the best solution would be to move away from our over-reliance on gas powered turbines. Coal plants should be built, wind farms should built, solar farms should be built and hydro dams (e.g. Mambilla) should be built quickly.

OreMI22:
Mainly Igbo and Yoruba bringing in 90% of those funds to Nigeria.

Abooki is just there to enjoy the money

Brilliance9000:
We all know it's mostly Igbo...

Una too like quarrel

tobiasbeecher:
I'm wondering the kind of life you're leading outside Nairaland. What is your normal day like? Are you happy knowing fully well that a lot of people hate you? What do you gain from all these? What do you intend to achieve? Have you taken time to examine and review your life here? I always wonder the kind of person behind this your moniker.

Lol.. the person you quoted is a troll and a clown. Even though we sit on the same political divide, I must confess that Ngene takes things to the extreme.

Bloomberg is all about devaluation; that has always been their target even before Buhari took over. Those guys have never said anything good about Nigeria and it's all tied to the refusal to devalue the naira.

Cleaning/clearing this Douglas road might just involve moving the market.

Seen...

ThaPatriot:
in your mind you think you've made sense now abi, well, since u can afford a smartphone and data to browse with, there is no way u can relate to what i am saying right now. I jez poured out my mind n i feel relieved now that i have spoken

Bro I just told you a fact... Remove political bias and re-read all what you've wrote and please tell me it makes logical sense?

freeze001:
Not surprised that u don't believe the rebuttal. You just like to feed on negative news from d SS, SE or a PDP state.

My dear, not everything must be attributed to politics. The world is bigger than politics and as a matter of fact, I have no idea where this incident happened.

For some strange reason, I don't completely believe this rebuttal.

ThaPatriot:
Many administration has come and gone, many presidents, many policies, from General Sani Abacha to Alhaji Abdulsalami Abubakar, to General Olusegun Obasanjo, Late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and even President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan no President/Administration has cost me so much pain, death n unhappiness. As i type i can't help the tear rolling down freely from my eyes, My very close friend lost his dad this evening. You might be quick to ask how this concerns our dear president, let me explain.
In November 2010 i secured admission into the University, as at that time my school was hosting the 2010/2011 NUGA games so that we 100 level student were not allowed into school until mid February 2011. Within this period i decided to garner some work experience so i got a job at a cyber cafè close to my house. It was at this cyber cafè that i helped some corpers to register for the inec Ad hoc staff recruitment which was to provide inec with Nysc officials to conduct the 2011 elections. I made acquaintance with some of them and we became really close as i tried to hear more about the tertiary institution from them since i was so Naive about the whole admission thing.
To cut the long story short, recall that during the build up to the 2011 elections President Mohammadu Buhari had Reportedly made the dogs n baboons statement. His statement was what incited the violence which erupted in the North when Jonathan was declared the winner after the elections, 3, among the Corp Members of whom i helped to register and secure that Inec job were murdered in cold blood including my Neighbours Son.
Since coming into power around may 2015 President Mohammadu Buhari have not promulgated any policy to ease the pain of the average Nigerian man, instead Nigerians have been made to go through untold hardship the economy has been put to a halt due to the non-passage of the 2016 Budget, one would have thought President Mohammadu Buhari would hit the ground running n things would have taken a better shape by now, but the reverse is the case.
Last week a church member of mine was coming back from a Journey, he works at the same construction company as my dad...When the bus got to Giri Junction (After Gwagwalada, Abuja) someone alighted from the bus n this man took the opportunity to come down n urinate, he was hale and hearty b4 embarking on that journey n even while he was coming back he was very lively in the bus, however when he finished urinating he fell down and died. High Bp.
Himself n my dad n almost all their staff were Retrenched from work b4 the 2015 general elections, the company's excuse for this was that there was a change of government n that they feared that the new government would not pay them their arrears or further renew their contract and that they'd be recalled to work immediately the new government shows commitment. Alas twas true, the government never showed any commitment, they had to delay the 2016 Budget till match 2016.
Just this evening my secondary school class mate lost his dad, the man just sat down on his chair slept n didn't wake up again. He died from too much thinking which resulted in a High Bp. My dad almost lost his life too last year because of the same reason, i had to finance the running of my final year project myself to ease the burden on my dad's neck, cost me my good grades.
How will i ever forgive President mohammadu Buhari

ThaPatriot:
So u are saying they should keep dying abi, because Buhari is in charge, would u have said the same thing if it were Goodluck....No problem na, tis all good.
And stop telling me to grow up, i am not ur mate, i am just pained

SMH.. the way in which people conveniently turn everything to politics and the way in which you have conveniently blamed Buhari for the death of your friend's dad is the reason he asked you to grow up.

You claim that a construction company retrenched their staff even before Buhari thought of winning the elections in 2015. The retrenchment was because the government at the time (headed by GEJ) owed them arrears, and they feared that if GEJ could not pay, a possible new government may not also pay. And you think Buhari should take the blame for that failure to pay and the resultant high BP of your friend's dad?

From the tone of your voice, you are obviously a GEJ supporter and you imply that had it been Jonathan still on the mantle, your friend's dad and several others wouldnt have died. You believe in GEJ so much that even in his inability to pay arrears to contractors, you put the blame on a Buhari? Wonderful!

Are you aware that in the 2015 budget, next to nothing was budgeted by GEJ for payment of those arrears but a president Buhari who has only just last week, had his first budget (2016) approved is the person you chose to blame for the high BP of your friend's dad?... Did you consider the fact that the country is flat-broke because of the oil price crises and previous governments failed woefully to diversify the economy (a process which we are only starting now and which cannot be done in a day)?... Have you also considered the fact that the previous government in addition to not diversifying the economy from sole dependence on oil, also squandered everything and left zero savings for a hard time like this when oil prices have crashed?

The fact that you can forgive GEJ but can't forgive a Buhari who only just recently inherited a mess, that speaks volumes. No offence intended but from your entire write-up and reasoning, you definitely need to grow up. And remember, growth isn't just about age.

Patience Jonathan English

People can be evil...

NavierStokes:
Good enough I find one supporter who doesn't see Mr President as a price maker but rather a price taker.
Anyways we wish Nigeria well at the end of the day only the government should understand that they are human and stop playing this larger-than- life figure they are portraying, by doing this the citizenry can know the truth and understand their capabilities.
Been nice having a chat with you this morning, have a great day and bye for now.

Have a great day too.