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Sincere 9gerian: Some frustrated and confused persons will support even the devil, just to discredit GEJ.

And reading thru, this is the best you can come up with.

I thought you sed the Scumbag is an anticoruption czar. Why is he now tryin to reside in the dark??

@Ngwakwe. I beg to differ from ur line of arguement. The president's oposition has nothing to do with separation of powers or infringement on the powers of the executive. It has everything to do with fostering and perpertuating the status quo of unbridled corruption and thievery. What is wrong with nigerians demanding that they know how their money is being spent? We are the govt's employers and as such hav every right to know how our employees expend our resources. Is that to much to ask? The president yet again strikes a wrong chord on this note making the sound that has been emanating from his guitar over the last coupla months sound even more nauseating.

I'm not a fan of the legislators because they constitute one of the major headaches of this country, but on this one, they get my suport.

For a regime which boasts of being the most valiant when it comes to fighting corruption, I see no sense in opposing a proposal to enhance transparency.

2015 is around the corner and the scumbag wants to ensure he loots as much as posible without the faintest of searchlights pointing in his direction.

Imagin budgettin about 300bill on an item and ending up spending nearly 3trillion on same item yet not a single soul has been held acountable!!

Jonathan is the biggest crook ever in the history of mankind!

President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a number
of ambitious stipulations in the Budget Act allowing
the Senate and the House of Representatives to
monitor every kobo disbursed by the executive for
project execution, a design federal lawmakers
hatched to check the perennial problem of poor
budget implementation.

Mr. Jonathan said the unprecedented clauses,
inserted by both chambers into the 2012 budget law after repeatedly complaining about their frustration with dismal budget performance, will encroach on his powers and that of the executive.
In a letter to the National Assembly Tuesday, the
president called for immediate review.

“The 2013 Appropriation Act includes some clauses
which may be injurious to the spirit of separation of
powers and which could hamper the work of the
executive arm of government. I, therefore, request
that these should be reviewed,” the president said.

The lawmakers had included in its approval of the
budget clause 6(2), which demands that the
Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, forward
to the National Assembly full details of all funds
released to Ministries, Departments and Agencies
immediately such funds are released.

If effective, Clause 6(2), more than any other, would
allowed a very close monitoring of government
spending. But Mr. Jonathan has rejected the move
citing separation of powers.

A follow up clause directs that the Minister of Finance release funds periodically as due to offices involved, and failures can only be entertained with the due permission of the National Assembly.

The president said that was impossible since
revenues fluctuate and might necessitate budgetary defaults. “This requires the minister of Finance to seek a waiver from the National Assembly each time the ministry of Finance cannot make full fund releases to the MDAs when due.

As you are aware, the nation experiences a shortfall in revenue once in a while and if the minister is to seek a waiver on each occasion,
the practice would tie down budget implementation,” he said.

It is not clear whether the lawmakers will oblige Mr.
Jonathan. But the president’s request for change, sent alongside a number of amendments to the 2012 budget, appears to highlight the president’s concern about having the executive’s often criticized unapproved spending, curtailed.

In 2012, lawmakers noted several unbudgeted
spending by ministries, departments and
parastatals-many of the cash used for those
spendings came from internally generated revenue.

Under the president, the cost of petrol subsidy
surged consistently more than approved by the
National Assembly, peaking at more than N2 trillion
in 2011 against the N256 billion budgeted.

But most frustrating to the lawmakers has been the
consistent poor implementation of the federal
budget, and complaints about refusal by the Ministry of Finance to make fund releases to respective government establishments.

The clauses were amongst a number of reviews by
the lawmakers to the budget, a reason the president refused to sign the passed document for months.

Others were the oil price benchmark and spending
adjustments. Mr. Jonathan recently signed the budget after extracting the assurances of the two arms of the National Assembly that should he sign the budget, the legislators will approve an immediate follow-up amendment he would send to lawmakers.

The president forwarded the amendment on
Tuesday. Alongside other requests, he asked the two arms to reverse the zero allocation to the Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, saying withholding the agency’s funds would affect the capital market.

Mr. Jonathan said the decision to withhold the
commission’s budget “tantamount to shutting down the business of the commission with a potential negative impact on the capital market”.

In the amendment the president has requested,
N273, 522 billion is to be allocated to the Subsidy
Reinvestment programme which lawmakers had
earlier dismissed as a scam.

Extra N4 billion is for the East-West road increment,
N13 billion for Abuja-Lokoja road, N31.5 billion for
Benin-Ore-Sagamu road, an additional N7 billion for
Kano-Maiduguri dualisation, N7billion for Port-
Harcourt-Enugu-Onitsha road, N7 billion counterpart funding for second Niger bridge and N10 billion for Oweto bridge in Benue State.

Proposed allocation to the Ministry of Transport is
N77 billion for Lagos-Kano-Port Harcourt-Maiduguri-
Kaduna-Abuja rail project, bringing the total to
N213,190 billion.

For social safety nets and infrastructure projects,
maternal and child health was allocated N16.9
billion, public works for youth N27 billion, mass
transit N6 billion, vocational training N8.6 billion and culture and tourism, N224 million.

Others include N1 billion for the board of Subsidy
Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme and
N500 million for monitoring and evaluation, bringing the total expenditure to N273,522 billion.




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Kai!!! Have missed the party again!!!

Buh, lemme see,,, errrm, I like his scumbagery. He could be used to bag scum.

This man reminds me of Pharoh. Keep on pushing, your time is almost here.

That god must be the most redundant and lazy god in all of history! So the god looked upon Nigeria, and with all that ails her, decides Alams case is the most pressing...

Oga Athur 'Daniel' Eze, u need urgent delivery.

kettykin: Rather than call names why not come up with your postulations to counter the postulations of the guy you called an Idiot perhaps forumites could truly see why you called him an Idiot

Postulations ke.. How on earth can one have a reasonable arguement with somone who demonstrates not even anything close to common sense?

[quote author=Okija_juju]APC Governors 500,000 Dollars worth of Bomb has landed in Maidugiri...


Let the fireworks commence..

The less Abokis we have in the 2015 elections, the higher the chances of Jonathan & PDP winning.[/quote]When are you ever gonna say somthing that bears semblance to som1 inside whom's skull sound does not echo??

[quote author=Mr. Garri.]^^

Rants of a PDP toilet fly

[/quote]I'd rather say the buzzing of a pdp toilet fly.

They have every reason to do so given the precedence that dumbfvck has set. Anyone with a discerning mind shouldave seen this comming, and more.

ugoezeb: The worst thing a man can do for himself is not telling himself the real truth. I'm so sorry for you cos you even lie to your very self. Smh.

Your signature gives you away especially as regards this topic.
We know your kind.

take dat: WE DONT BELIEVE YOU, YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE! When he(Ikenga) was used in hounding and terrorising Atiku, Nnamani and Nwodo, PDP didn't see him as an estranged fellow but now that he's underhand dirty dealings has been exposed, they are quick to disown him! A motley crew of brazen-faced liars, thieves and despicable desperados!

You. Couldn't have said it better. Time and again, I have sed it that no amount of intimidation or nucturnal schemings can thwart the glorious destiny we are headed towards.

Jonathan and his band of terrorists and crooks hopefully would have kirikiri as their final abode come 2016.

It irks me no end how this midget minded mediocre became face of nigeria.

Billyonaire: Amnesty and State Pardon are political reunification instruments. If the society was perfect, there would have been no such word like State pardon and Amnesty. Amnesty and State Pardon are not meant for priests, lawful or the patriots. Amnesty just like State Pardon was meant to reunite criminals, lawless, felons, rebels and thieves to the fold. If Alam was such criminal, a lawless, felon, rebel and thief then I see no reason its a misnorm. I will rather say the US Embassy is acting in ignorance of sovereignty of state of Nigeria. There is Penalty against any Embassy who dares to interfere in our sovereign ideals.

I hope someday u live to see some dumb niggaz ride a train on ur daughter just as these politicians have been relentlessly doing this old lady called Nigeria, and then u wld champion the course of granting them pardon. Do I hear an amen??

Elose11: Why is the US govt. always meddling in other nation's internal affairs? How our president uses his constitutionally granted power of prerogative of mercy should not be the concern of the US govt. After all we don't interfere with how Obama uses his.

When they donate all manner of aids and grants to the country, that isn't meddlesome. Why is this diferent?

Dede1: US Embassy should shut the hell up. American presidents have pardoned politicians who duped their constituencies. Why should Nigerian pardon be anything difference?

Would you mind educating us more by naming some names sir? Olodo 01

I bet if only the op knew there was a prayer warrior in the house, he wldnt open this thread.

If I believe somthin is good and som1 wills it to me, I'd gladly accept it with relish! Why is it dificult for you to accept such a marvelous wish for u

When the president and commander in chief himself could come out and openly declare a crook his benefactor, then his subjects cannot but refer to the crook as valiant patriot!

What Abati and co are doing is just a manifestation of jonathan's blatant endorsement of criminality.

We shall overcome soon.

This man started phucking up left right and centre ever since he made GEJ's crotch his face's permanent abode! Only a coupla months back nairaland was awash with evidences of his sterling performance in Akwa Ibom oo.

And the more they try to defend this reprehensible act, the more it lingers in the media, the victim of which at the end of the day would be no one but our amiable Tu Baba.

So oga Okpa-bio, no con dey pour san san for this young man garri mbok. One TuFace is better than all your lot put together!

What a shame! Is this man Jonathan well upstairs
Let's see how the bingo Otukpe will spin this one.

SMH.

PapaBrowne: Is he not a Nigerian?? Doesnt he have the right to register a political party with the name African Peoples Congress.

This article is just pathetic! Look at the small boy who outsmarted the whole gang of opposition politicians!
Yet they want us to believe that it is the PDP in Aso Rock that did it. If it were the PDP that registered the party, would the man in question be switching off his phone. No people. He would be lodging somewhere in Transcorp with the full protection of the billion dollar party that the PDP is.

Maybe the guy is just a patriot motivated by his desire to ensure that a Coup plotter(Buhari) that truncated our democracy does not get anywhere near Aso Rock.

I like the guys smart move. My advice to APC right now is that they should seek a negotiation with him and offer him a huge sum to change his party name. As it currently stands, he will win the case in any court of law subsisting on any part of the planet!!

Buhari never plotted any coup in Nigeria. The supreme military council thought him the best candidate to run the govt after that coup, invited him and he dutifully accepted the offer and brought some sanity into the system. When are you pple going to cut the gentleman some slack?
'Coup plotter, terorist, fundamentalist'.., all these are concocted lies just to malign the image to the general and make the public aprehensive about him while ensuring the status quo of unbridled corruption and maladministration persists.

But change is in the air and the day of reckoning is fast drawing close. Nothing is gonna stop a destiny whose time has come!

God bless Nigeria.

awodman: Let the harvest keep pouring in...but oga GEJ abeg step up the fight ƒσя corruption

He should step up his fight 'FOR' corruption shey?
So, what we r witnessing today isn't enough? Smh

midebays: Vic O invites Oga @ the top

That Vic O guy is absolutely insane!! The day I watched that 'after party' video, I cldnt stop LMAO!! Definately the dopest musician on the block!

A perfect antidote for anger.


@ topic: pple hav been giving the man some credits for what he sed in my opinion. The man sed 'ww.nscdc' and not 'www.nscdc'! Lwkmdfh!!

Why do I feel sorry for them??

Besides the lifeline of 'call my oga at the top' which got me rotf, I wldave sed the creator of that pic is even 'dafter' than the man himself, cos the answer to the question isn't among the options.

[quote author=Neo-XVI]They are still evolving. There is hardly a need for ideology right now. What we need is a government that will invest heavily in infrastructure and get us out of needing basic things, then we can talk about ideology. Ever heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? You first deal with food, clothing and shelter before you start talking about self actualization. That's our case presently.

If eventually we get to a two party system and the current parties survive, PDP would lean conservative and APC would lean liberal, I think.[/quote]'Still evolving', end of story. Nice one.

Geomac: This is the dumbest post of the year.

I think you meant to say 'dumbest post since 2005'...

Nigerian politicians are known worldwide to be inordinate lairs. One must always take whatever they say with a spoonfull of salt.

When we were kids, we were taught to believe that elders are like next to gods, infallible, and we ought to accord them undiluted respect. But majority of elders I see today deserve nithing less than scorn, unblemished disrespect, and above all, the gallows.

Does this man have kids? How do they feel about their father?

ITbomb: People need to understand that it is not the FG as per Executive arm of government that single handedly gave the pardon .
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The pardon was made by the Council of State which include Buhari, it is an elders council not ministers' forum that GEJ can influence.
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Anybody mentioning clueless here should know that that include Buhari , Gowon , IBB , Abubakar etc

And who told you Buhari was in attendance? And even if he was, who told you he also endorsed it?

Stop trying to spread the spread blame around. If it had been a good decision, all glory wouldave gone to the dullaard but knowin its a terrible one, you guys want to share the spoils of the outcome.

The idea was the Retardeen's. Deal with it. It's his trademark attitude!

Mr Sleaze-beat, stop trying to covertly defend and absolutely indefensible act. The idea to pardon that crook was jonathan's brainchild. He proposed it and the Council aproved.

If he hadn't brought up the idea, no one wldave thought anyfin about it period!

The blame therefore lies solely on him, and moreso, given his knack for chumming up with the sleaziest known criminals in the land.

Jonathan was a monumental mistake that was never meant to happen.