₦airaland Forum

TheGoodJoe:
I agree with you that we are witnessing the blockage of another leakage of our scarce resources. Do these men know Nigeria has to carter for over 170 million people?

I hope this is the last time of budget fraud.

As the saying goes, "breeze don blow fowl ass open." I can only imagine what has been scaling through in all other past budgets we've been having in this country. This is definitely a new beginning, thanks to social media and thanks to (some of) the angry wailers. Like I always said before the election, having a party like the PDP in the opposition would be in the best interest of Nigeria and Nigerians. The criminal hawks we have in the APC would continually have their wings clipped.

That being said, only God knows why Buhari and his vice hasn't spoken or done a thing about this trending embarrassment. I have no doubts in my mind however that following this expose, something drastic in the form of a surgical review would be done on this budget. But Buhari needs to sit up and realise that we're no longer in 1980's were there were only a few identifiable loopholes; if he continues in this way, I'm afraid he may just be messed up really badly by those around him even worse than it happened to GEJ.

The fact remains that Nigeria is a very corrupt nation filled with criminals in high and low places. As the president struggles to block leaking holes, more holes will be punctured in other areas and that is exactly what we are witnessing today. Buhari needs to cut his silly everyday foreign trips, sit his old ass down with every single person involved and thoroughly scrutinize this embarrassment of a budget because if care is not taken, the same thing that happened to GEJ would soon happen to Buhari. The only hope and faith I have though is that as soon as these illegalities are discovered, I have a believe something will be done about it unlike in the past when discoveries like these are usually covered-up and passionately defended by the president himself and his cronies.

Amazingly, for the fear of repercussions, people in power are already coming out in droves to deny and denounce the sleaze. I do not need a soothsayer to tell me that more illegalities will be discovered, but eventually, I believe these leaking holes (that have always been a traditional part of Nigerian budgets) will be plugged. Sweeping corruption out can only be a gradual process but at least we now have a president who is interested in going down that dreary road; whether he will succeed or not is a question only the gods can answer.

Meanwhile I can see all these Jonathanian wailers having a filled day trying to prove that someone else can be as corruptly useless as their lord and saviour GEJ, but then, they only chase after the wind.

anonimi:
So was Femi Adesina also dragging Buhari's name into his own "cesspit of corruption"
When will the followers of this PRETENTIOUS crook wake up & smell the ogi/akamu and realise they have been duped?
The juju must be strong walahi.

You can continue in your desperate bid but I can assure you that you are wasting your time like a person searching for ditt in distilled water. Regarding juju, it is obvious that the juju affecting anonimi and making him post pictures indiscriminately, that juju must be very strong. Hopefully your case will not degenerate to posting of satellite pictures like emperor musiwa.

“Those who are neck deep in the sewage of corruption ensure that they splatter sewage in all possible and improbable directions.” - Prof W. Soyinka

All I see from this report and thread is a desperate bid by the wailing lovers of corruption to drag Buhari's name into their cesspit of corruption. If an employee of Buhari decides to steal, he will be investigated and brought to book. We are no longer in the old order where the president and defender in chief of looters upon hearing of a case of corruption levelled against someone would jump into instant defensive mode even before he gets the details and start blabbing things like 'stealing is not corruption.'

I wouldn't forget in a hurry how a certain sitting president when asked by CNN about the leaked ekiti election tape quickly blurted out that it was a fabricated recording; and this was just a day after 2 of those in the tapes had ready admitted to their involvement. Walahi.. I will forever be grateful to God for delivering Nigeria from that order.

SamJed:
Funny how the comments of the buharists full here yet GEJ has more likes...people eyes don dey open...what the zombies know is talks and propaganda yet no action...but we the wailers are of mature minds....#NeverRegrettedBeingForGEJ

The funny truth is that it is only jonathanian wailers that still mumuishly think elections are next week hence they scramble for threads like this and start thumbprinting 'likes' as if their life depends on it.

The buharists don't need to waste their time clicking the 'like' button when we already know we are winners, mature ke!

macfarland:
BUHARI BUDGETED OVER 200 BILLION FOR OIL EXPLORATION IN BORNO STATE. THIS IS A STATE WHERE THE INSECURITY IS VERY HIGH. WHICH COMPANY WILL MOBILIZE THEIR EQUIPMENT AND MAN POWER TO BORNO STATE. BUHARI WANT TO POCKET THAT HUGE MONEY. A MAN WHO CANNOT PREPARE A COMMON BUDGET WHICH GEJ PRESENTED FIVE GOOD TIMES WITHOUT HITCHES!

Bro you can say what you want to say or believe what you want to believe, but even a dead mosquito knows that GEJ takes the crown as the more corrupt and clueless one amongst both men; in fact it's an insult to even attempt to compare both men. But yeah, you are free to believe what makes you happy.

OLADD:
I am not one of those you can force unpleasant food down their throats. Why did the presidency choose to explain the rationale for the N3.8b proposed for Villa Clinic if it was inconsequential? I deliberately ignored your attached links having realised your mischief. As far as the Nigerian public is concerned today, that figure remains unchanged.

Moreover, why are you hyping on the feeding allocation only? What of the N20b also proposed for rent in the Villa? Are you one of the tenants?

Ahaaa!
Finally, you are now shifting away from the feeding allocations to more reasonable things. If you remember, one of the first things I advised you was to restrict you criticism to factual things and not some lousy hearsay rumours peddled by some dubious blogs. I specifically pointed out to you that there were several 'genuine' issues in the budget which needed your attention and criticism, but you chose to stick with the fictitious feeding budget which you quoted.

Now while you have done the noble thing by shifting from the N1.7bn argument, you still in your stubbornness, closed with the statement "as far as the Nigerian public is concerned today" but I ask, who is this Nigerian public you talk about?... I'm sure you obviously mean people like yourself who shamelessly prefer to stick with a clearly false story all because you think it suits your political narrative.

OLADD:
So, you relied on blog debates to dispute the figure? As far as that allocation is concerned, it remains N1.7billion since the presidency is yet to say otherwise unless you're trying to usurp the function of Adesina and Garba Shehu.

This is the reason why people fail exams. The budget document has been made public, yet you still expect Adesina and Garba to leave whatever they are doing to come and answer to some people that have refused to use their God given intelligence by reading the budget which has already been made public? I was even gracious enough to post you a link where the budget figures were analysed just so you dont go through the stress of perusing the entire budget yet you still insist? Kaii! some humans are indeed irredeemable; OLADD you are definitely an OLODO, a very stubborn one at that

http://www.theheraldng.com/re-presidency-to-spend-n114-m-not-n1-7b-on-feeding/
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195903-buhari-to-spend-more-than-jonathan-on-presidential-villa-to-spend-less-on-food.html

Choiii... Privacy has gone to the dogs.

OLADD:
I had waited patiently for you to tell us the feeding budget if it's not N1.7b as you claimed. Instead of picking your phone to confirm the veracity of my figure, you embarked on arrogant peddling of lie. For your information, the proposed feeding budget is N1 7billion. Check your facts before galloping into people's thread.

This issue was raised by some propaganda blogs before the budget was released to the public, it was debated fiercely and the falsehood was crushed when the budget was eventually made public. Like I said earlier, there are many genuine issues wrong with the budget which you can criticise, but desperately dwelling on your fictitious N1.7bn feeding figure even after being corrected speaks volumes on your level of awareness.

A simple advice, the 2016 budget is a public document. Go and download it and stop basing your arguments on hearsays from igbereTv et al. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195903-buhari-to-spend-more-than-jonathan-on-presidential-villa-to-spend-less-on-food.html

CSTR2:
Yes, because shouting kumbaya to all and sundry would suddenly build a seaport in the east.

..And what do you mean by kumbaya?

chiefobdk:
if hatred is anti progressive how come we Igbos hate you and still progress.

The senseless hatred for other tribes is what is slowing down the progress.

How can anyone even think of returning GEJ?... The only reason Nigeria hasn't totally crashed today is because of the tight fisted nature of PMB. If GEJ won that election, we would have been plunged into a recession worse than the Venezuelan situation by now and we probably would have been standing on long queues today to receive one cup of rice from UN / WHO representatives.

Tranquilised ke... It's lucky it didnt stray into Nigeria, it would have been used as a dead model for several selfies, just like oga lion below.

https://www.nigerianewsheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/butchered.jpg
https://www.36ng.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/lion3.jpg?9edf6e

And then finally butchered for its meat

https://www.36ng.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/lion1.jpg?9edf6e

Naija I hail!

drss:
if buari want to be respected as a civilized man, he should resign ova dis budget of corruption.

Lol... bro don't you think you were born in the wrong continent?...

Why must everything be tribalised in Nigeria?.... Why must some imbeciles try to paint every single thing in tribal colours?? Obviously, only shallow brained insecure sub-humans tribalise everything.

Obviously PDP is the light while APC is darkness (according to the bishop). Meanwhile the wailers wouldn't label this one a political pastor now, but when Fr Mbaka visits and prays for PMB, they will open their mouths wide and start blabbing. Issorait!

Interesting! we are getting there gradually. Very soon we shall be producing the complete planes.

tiwiex:
Fixed charge vs 50% increase? Let them leave the fixed charge then. My crazy bill for a bungalow is now 22k a month. Light dey or not oh. He has no clue on that privatization scam and is listening to his fellow capitalists. Until Nigerians start begging food abi?

How can you pay 22k when you claim you have no light?

OLADD:
You can do better than this trash. Can you educate Nigerians why a govt that preaches prudence could jerk up feeding allocation to such unjustfable. level? If there's anybody that needs both psychological and spiritual cleansing, you definitely fit the description. Whether you call it hatred or whatever name, that's your problem. I don't hate the president but I detest deception. OK?

The feeding budget is not N1.7 billion. Stop embarrassing yourself.

dunkem21:
Oh, you know ..

.. But Lai Mohammed was screaming for GEJ to resign .. You also ..

Una hatred for GEJ sha ..

I my name Lai?

Lol... Seems like the man writes spiritual letter bombs that ends political careers.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1082877_OBJ_jpg68d9f0d845e2acc955cae019adcf206d

OLADD:
Statements emanating from the Presidency when defending apparent goofs by this adminstration sometimes draw laughter and disdain. Many times had the president for instance, misfired when granting interviews to foreign press only for Adesina and Garba Shehu to embark on fruitless and needless lectures by rephrasing those statements just to save the president's face.

Latest in this series of childish comedy is the reason alluded by the presidency for the errors and "padding" discovered in the 2016 Budget. Attaching the adoption of ZBB to the unprecedented aberrations in that budget is not only repressible, it underlines how far the presidency can go in covering up its apparent incompetence.

First, what is Zero Based Budgeting? It simply means a budgeting system that requires all expenses to be justified for each fiscal period as against building on previous budget. This allow each cost centre to put forward all expenditure for each budget year only. With this little hindsight, why should the presidency attribute a simple budgeting system to the anticipatory fraud perpetrated by those responsible for its preparation? It's evident that bogous figures were intentionally smuggled into the document for future fraudulent purposes. Was it the ZBB that warranted repetition of same budget heads? Was the newly adopted budget system responsible for the increase of feeding allocation in the presidency from N500 million to N1.7billion? Was the ZBB responsible for the infiltration of "foreign figures" in the 2016 Appropriation Bill?

The presidency and its spokespersons should stop taking us for a ride with incongruent kindergarten rejoinders and face saving rethorics.

Ignorance is cured by education, the medicine to treat ignorance is information, but when the ignorance is fuelled purely by the emotions of deep seated hatred, it is obvious that such a case of ignorance is incurable except maybe through spiritual means.

FYI, the feeding budget was never N1.7 billion hence everything you just stated is poo; go and seek spiritual help.

Atlantian:
He ends up saying nothing. Pray tell us, why does the Budget has a rent charge on Aso Rock state house, what has that to do with budget planning modules? Admit that you are fraudulent and incompetent and tell Buhari to resign. He is just too ignorant to run any place more than a cattle farm.

Resign?... Have you ever seen an African leader resign?... If he resigns what next?... Your hatred for Buhari shaa

Eagle75:
So where is the change? I don't understand why we should always try to defend irregularities at this stage in our national polity. Just not right at all!

My comment u quoted was a direct response to a statement by someone. I wasnt defending any irregularity.

tinktanker:
c how una president dey embarrass us. Simple to present budget him no fit. N u brain drained one will see nothing wrong. U *oolish sha

E be like say the otapiapia no reach u.

Nigerian security forces na wa. Whatever happened to the idea of using tear gas to disperse a crowd?.... Why must there be firing of live bullets into crowds of unarmed people?

I thought all these ipob people had left nairaland

AlfaSeltzer:
Are you for real?
Seriously, where do I begin?
I don't have time if you are so blind as to not see the bondage under which Nigeria has put us

Bro what bondage exactly?... Hausa and Yoruba bondage or bondage from our very own worthless leaders?... What powers do the Hausas or Yorubas have to subject the whole Igbos to bondage?....

Some people need to wake up from this delusion and realise that Nigeria is like a jungle where representatives of every tribe go to abuja to fight for the interest of their people. The questions we should be asking is what the recent crop of Igbo leaders do with their time when they get to abuja. But it seems we are more fixated on passing the blame to leaders from other tribes and regions who are simply fighting for the interests of their people.

It is rather embarrassing that a large population of the Igbo race today thinks the best solution to a leadership and economic problem is to run away from Nigeria simply because we cannot compete with our peers.

Mboi:
I should Google Nigerian budget? You people should hide ur faces in shame. You're out of points for dis arguement so go and sleep.
APC, PMB & 2016 Budget is a national disgrace.

Okay yeah, they are a national disgrace. I am hiding my face now.

RightBoo:
Smh. Rip to English and Igbo

Fear catch me 4 d guy English spellings and grammar, and then I saw the Igbo spellings..

Vanquay:
I DON'T know who you referring to cus I hardly follow Nigerian politics and if you implying Jonathan and PDP...I equally despise them

Ok