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Constituency palava

So cocoa institute dey fund federal projects all the way to Rivers state. Wow!!

Now this is intelligent and technical criticism

The same will be happening at the center. They suffer ordinary Nigerians for nothing. Shameless thieving politicians. Those who sold their votes for 10k, hope you are having fun 😆😆😆

Someone in that institute's board is fronting for corrupt politicians

mach7:
Good information can be sometimes used for mischievous purposes.

BudgIT has provided the facts, but did not provide a good background for the facts presented.

It is a known practice for constituency projects to be embedded into the budgets of MDAs. The respective MDA is expected to contract out and oversee the implementation of the constituency project within the timeframe and voted amount as provided for in the budget.

This method was adopted to ensure that constituency allowance for projects are not paid directly to lawmakers due to issues of mismanagement and/or corruption. The lawmaker is only responsible for identifying the project needed after due consultation with his or her constituents. Lawmaker is also expected to confirm that the constituency project was carried out.

If you check the budget of different MDAs you will see voted amounts for constituency projects embedded on them. This has been the practice since the OBJ era.

Let's be guided please.

Even if it will be embedded, must the money meant for Street light, Healthcare facilities, schools among others for some States in the North, South South be embedded in Cocoa Institute in Oyo State?

Don't such States have MDA closer to them for project execution?

Also, after due Consultation, the last thing for the money allocated for such project is to found itself in the account of another State's MDA.

Please present it better to make more sense.

Tochi3:
D

Yoruba..Na wa o..

..the looting is only for states in the SW..only 1 padding for kano..1 for PH..the rest padded corruption is for only SW states..

..even in corruption, looting, thievery, pilfering..padding..they still bring tribalistic padding only for their region..

..I have said it..that SW are the most corrupt region with the most corrupt politician in Nigeria..worse than the fulanis..

Where is the cocoa base of Nigeria?

Karleb:
I did my SIWES there in 2017 and the company does not look like one that has upto 20m in it's account.

I did mine there in 2015

Who's to be blamed? Tinubu or the Institute board?

illuminutty:
No wonder the entire state is as dark at night as Tinubu's criminal heart.

If we are half like Americans, Tinubu should be in jail with his Enron barge collaborators after paying off his drug lord case.

Judge hands out prison time in Enron barge scam

Ex-Enron, Merrill execs sentenced. A repentant Boyle gets nearly four years for his involvement in barge scandal

May 13, 2005

Former Enron executive Dan Boyle was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday, while Robert Furst and William Fuhs, both former Merrill Lynch bankers, received more than three years — all for their roles in the Enron Nigerian barge scam.

Boyle, sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and fined $320,000, was the only one who appeared repentant about pushing through a sham sale of energy-generating barges to the bank so Enron could pump its earnings and bolster its stock price.

"I'm the only one responsible for my actions and omissions and for the pain I caused each and every person I affected," the Clear Lake resident told the judge. "I'm truly sorry."

https://www.chron.com/business/enron/article/Judge-hands-out-prison-time-in-Enron-barge-scam-1942569.php

Racoon:
Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.

Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.

His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.

The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993

It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.

Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.

He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.

“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/?.
 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

Karleb:
I did my SIWES there in 2017 and the company does not look like one that has upto 20m in it's account.

How is the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) in Ibadan a company?

Did you go to school at all, talk less of doing SIWES there or anywhere

mach7:
Good information can be sometimes used for mischievous purposes.

BudgIT has provided the facts, but did not provide a good background for the facts presented.

It is a known practice for constituency projects to be embedded into the budgets of MDAs. The respective MDA is expected to contract out and oversee the implementation of the constituency project within the timeframe and voted amount as provided for in the budget.

This method was adopted to ensure that constituency allowance for projects are not paid directly to lawmakers due to issues of mismanagement and/or corruption. The lawmaker is only responsible for identifying the project needed after due consultation with his or her constituents. Lawmaker is also expected to confirm that the constituency project was carried out.

If you check the budget of different MDAs you will see voted amounts for constituency projects embedded on them. This has been the practice since the OBJ era.

Let's be guided please.

A corrupt Nigerian spotted.

So it's a cocoa Research Institue in Oyo of all MDAs that should handle street lights in Lagos?

Are you for real?

These smells corruption in all facet, there is no justification for it. Please stop defending corruption.

This is a very misleading report. The projects in question are constituency projects initiated by lawmakers from those constituencies. Lawmakers normally take their projects to any MDA of their choice and that has been the practice since the Obasanjo administration. Trying to make it about Lagos because Tinubu is from Lagos is simply misleading and disingenuous.

When it comes to constituency and zonal intervention projects, the number one agency in Nigeria is Federal Cooperative College, Orji River in Enugu state. In the 2024 capital budget alone, they have over N100Billion in constituency projects from different states up to the north. So, why is BUDGIT not writing about them?

As there is nothing to " research " on by the Cocoa Research Institute, the institute created another work for themselves. Some of these government agencies are not productive, contributing nothing and gulping scarce resources to maintain their respective boards and the executive management's affluent lifestyle.

Lovit:
A corrupt Nigerian spotted.

So it's a cocoa Research Institue in Oyo of all MDAs that should handle street lights in Lagos?

Are you for real?

These smells corruption in all facet, there is no justification for it. Please stop defending corruption.

Pick a budget and read my friend. That’s the practice since 1999. Check the budget of Federal Cooperative College, Orji River, Enugu state and see the over N100 billion budget for constituency projects alone. Cocoa research Ibadan is even very small in terms of allocation so I don’t understand why BIDGIT singled them out for this kind of misleading story.

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/budgit-cocoa-research-institute-got-n250m-for-lagos-streetlights-project-in-2024-budget/amp/

A Bag of cocoa now is 950thousand naira for 100kg bag if am not mistaken, instead of Cocoa Research institute of Nigeria to focus on how to increase cocoa yield in Nigeria so the country will also reap from this goldmine, they R busy buying barbing kits, fridges and iron for communities...

How will Nigeria grow from fourth world to a better nation we R all clamouring for?

How.... For goodness sake

misplaced priority plus eye service... Nigeria I hail thee

Lithiumite:
Where is the cocoa base of Nigeria?

..where is the oil base of Nigeria..?

Tochi3:
D

Yoruba..Na wa o..

..the looting is only for states in the SW..only 1 padding for kano..1 for PH..the rest padded corruption is for only SW states..

..even in corruption, looting, thievery, pilfering..padding..they still bring tribalistic padding only for their region..

..I have said it..that SW are the most corrupt region with the most corrupt politician in Nigeria..worse than the fulanis..

Go and check the budget of the following agencies for constituency projects from other states


1. Federal Cooperative College, Orji River, Enugu - N103Billion
2. Federal college of Horticulture, Dadin Kowa, Gombe state - N48Billion
3. Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna - N28billion
4. Hadejia Jamare River Basin Development Authority Kano - N10 Billion
5. NCAM, Ilorin - over N20B
6. National stored product research institute, Ilorin -N26billion

Above is just to mention a few. As you can see, Orji River in Enugu took the lead.

ALTERNATEID:
Go and check the budget of the following agencies for constituency projects from other states


1. Federal Cooperative College, Orji River, Enugu - N103Billion
2. Federal college of Horticulture, Dadin Kowa, Gombe state - N48Billion
3. Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna - N28billion
4. Hadejia Jamare River Basin Development Authority Kano - N10 Billion
5. NCAM, Ilorin - over N20B
6. National stored product research institute, Ilorin -N26billion

Above is just to mention a few. As you can see, Orji River in Enugu took the lead.

..the cocoa institute is not a state agency..but a federal one..is there any other federal cocoa institute in Nigeria apart from the one iin Ibadan..?

..why looting a padded federal budget for politicians only in the SW..

..anyway Thief'nubu maladministration is all about budget padding, sharing & looting the revenue by Thief'nubu & his goons..

HydraFeeds:
We have weak institutions in Nigeria. Cocoa research institute should focus only on cocoa .

Every year we export Cocoa to people who make billions in USD from the finished product.

Dangote exposed the lies of conspiratorial junk about The West and powerful forces being behind lack of refineries. We may need a private individual to beeak the lies about the western chocolate mafia being too powerful.

Cocoa if processed can earn us as much as oil but look at what the institute sponsored by Govt is busy dojng. No vision. No sense.

ALTERNATEID:
Go and check the budget of the following agencies for constituency projects from other states


1. Federal Cooperative College, Orji River, Enugu - N103Billion
2. Federal college of Horticulture, Dadin Kowa, Gombe state - N48Billion
3. Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna - N28billion
4. Hadejia Jamare River Basin Development Authority Kano - N10 Billion
5. NCAM, Ilorin - over N20B
6. National stored product research institute, Ilorin -N26billion

Above is just to mention a few. As you can see, Orji River in Enugu took the lead.

Thank you for reinforcing the fact that this culture of waste and indolence is well beyond any single region or tribe.

Brendaniel:
And what is Tinubu doing about it?

I don't know 😭

CodeTemplarr:
Every year we export Cocoa to people who make billions in USD from the finished product.

Dangote exposed the lies of conspiratorial junk about The West and powerful forces being behind lack of refineries. We may need a private individual to beeak the lies about the western chocolate mafia being too powerful.

Cocoa if processed can earn us as much as oil but look at what the institute sponsored by Govt is busy dojng. No vision. No sense.

Capital is affecting local entrepreneurs,I've seen a lot of local farmers on X doing extremely well. I've divested into agriculture myself .

We just need to keep "gingering" people to produce more locally .

Tochi3:


..where is oil based in Nigeria..?

CRIN is a research institute,which Nddc projects do you find outside the oil producing states?

anonimi:
How is the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) in Ibadan a company?

Did you go to school at all, talk less of doing SIWES there or anywhere

No vex. I no go school.

HydraFeeds:
Capital is affecting local entrepreneurs,I've seen a lot of local farmers on X doing extremely well. I've divested into agriculture myself .

We just need to keep "gingering" people to produce more locally .

people tasked with overcoming hard challenges farmers face are busy building streetlights. What can gingering do? Not much.

Lithiumite:
CRIN is a research institute,which Nddc projects do you find outside the oil producing states?

..

..point of correction..a FEDERAL research institute.. ..not a regional research institute..

..NDDC is a an oil producing agency for states that brings the revenue that Thief'nubu is looting..

..the money looted by a federal research institute..how much came from cocoa..?

..how much have they been able to generate from cocoa..?

Tochi3:
..

..point of correction..a FEDERAL research institute.. ..not a regional research institute..

..NDDC is a an oil producing agency for states that brings the revenue that Thief'nubu is looting..

..the money looted by a federal research institute..how much came from cocoa..?

..how much have they been able to generate from cocoa..?

how many states or regions produce cocoa? before oil,cocoa was one of the mainstay of the Nigerian economy during the colonial period and early independence......"it was something the chicken was eating before corn came"

CodeTemplarr:
people tasked with overcoming hard challenges farmers face are busy building streetlights. What can gingering do? Not much.

That's why private businesses come in , capitalist countries like USA was developed by individuals like Rockefeller and co and now people like Musk are reinforcing it .

mach7:
Good information can be sometimes used for mischievous purposes.

BudgIT has provided the facts, but did not provide a good background for the facts presented.

It is a known practice for constituency projects to be embedded into the budgets of MDAs. The respective MDA is expected to contract out and oversee the implementation of the constituency project within the timeframe and voted amount as provided for in the budget.

This method was adopted to ensure that constituency allowance for projects are not paid directly to lawmakers due to issues of mismanagement and/or corruption. The lawmaker is only responsible for identifying the project needed after due consultation with his or her constituents. Lawmaker is also expected to confirm that the constituency project was carried out.

If you check the budget of different MDAs you will see voted amounts for constituency projects embedded on them. This has been the practice since the OBJ era.

Let's be guided please.

Constituency projects are under senate and house of rep

ALTERNATEID:
Pick a budget and read my friend. That’s the practice since 1999. Check the budget of Federal Cooperative College, Orji River, Enugu state and see the over N100 billion budget for constituency projects alone. Cocoa research Ibadan is even very small in terms of allocation so I don’t understand why BIDGIT singled them out for this kind of misleading story.

That being the practice doesn't make it right.

so tell us why a research Institute in Oyo is handling constituency project in Lagos and Rivers?

if not for corruption, are there no resident MDAs in Lagos and Rivers for their indigent NASS members to use?

see below quotes from former Presidents on this issue as seen on Vanguard

Obasanjo, Buhari, Jonathan take positions

Obasanjo himself who started constituency project in 2023 once described it as nothing but corruption, saying, “You and I know what constituency project means, it is simply corruption.”

Former President Muhammadu Buhari echoed similar claim in 2019 when he said the impact of the trillions of Naira voted for constituency projects could hardly be seen in the lives of ordinary Nigerians.

On his part, former President Goodluck Jonathan had said “don’t put the goat where yam is because the goat will eat the yam” in apparent reference to corrupt acts dogging constituency projects.