₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
Be enlightened! Budget is not money; it's just a financial plan. It seems most Nairalanders are young people who have never held key positions. Money meant for budgeting isn't available anywhere. That's why they hope to sell crude oil and tax people/companies to get it. Those they cannot get through those means, they borrow it. In short, borrowing isn't even guaranteed unless you are willing to accept funny lending terms and conditions.

Lol, person wey I go born calling me "Young"
Where did they get the 1 trillion released for the construction of the road?
Point at any federal road that's in good condition?

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Every level ends 6ft under and termites will have free lunch.

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Normally we know say Dave Umahi head dey touch sometimes but he get a normal typical Igbo man sense!

My own is that why is Rep Oseni Remi complaining? I thought they all agreed Asiwaju Coastal Highway of Fraud is more important than highway crisscrossing the federation? Honestly, these people sha!

You go point out important and urgent things to do, them go say no. Then, few months later, them go begin dey cry!

No be unadulterated madness be this so?

ify2016:
Addressing the issue that was raised is what matters and not boasting of achievement.

He, like most Nigerians will never address the issue without changing the topic into a personal matter.

Na level we dey talk or service delivery ? Very clueless noise maker . Our roads are getting deplorable and you are building new ones with no hope of finishing .. Everywhere ,the roads are impassable yet we budgeted bilions annually to get it done. What has happened to those billions ? You owe Nigerians explanations..

ntyce:
Are we facing the same challenges as we did in 1976?
Then we had surplus

Surplus or not, people felt the bridge was a waste and wasn't needed and accused those in govt of wanting to use it as a conduit pipe to steal money.....same is happening now.

Bobloco:
Umahi is a madman.
 
Which level is he even referring to? Oh! He became a governor, senator, and minister. Is Umahi the only one that has attained such a level? And what makes him think that the Rep member won't attain such a level, especially in a country like Nigeria where anyone can become anything? 

Instead of giving answers to the questions raised by the Rep member about why our federal roads are in a worse state, he is busy engaging in a dick measuring contest.

Na idiots on this minister be.Answer d questions on why all federal roads hav been abandoned while u struggling to build new ones....n award contracts

What a dolt

He should have responded with civility - respond to the issues.


Which level is he talking about? Black people with power are dangerous.

IGBO.COM

REMI OSENI IS A DIRECTOR OF HIS PEOPLE IN THAT HE MAKES DIRECTIVES FOR HIS PEOPLE.

UMAHI IS A MINISTER, A MERE MESSENGER FOR HIS PEOPLE.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOT IGBO NOR YORUBA "AWAWI".

HAUSA LANGUAGE IS NOW USED ON BRICS' CURRENCY.

Lithiumite:
When the military govt decided to build the 3rd mainland bridge in 76,it was called a white elephant project and that the country had no use for such humongous waste,the govt got a lot of scorn on that......now imagine the chaos Lagos would have been without that bridge.

This is the same way you guys will be making up issues. Please who and who were against the building or construction of the 3rd mainland bridge? Please mention them.
The project as at that time was a needful project because of the difficulty in linking road interchange at Ebute Meta and Lagos Island. It was an all welcomed project.
This your lie is like saying people were against the construction of confluence bridge in Lokoja or Jebba bridge in Kwara. They are all projects that were timely as at that time they did them and not white elephant projects.
Even till date there are projects that government will embark on and people will joyfully embrace it because of its need to the area but not the one that won't serve the people.

Government is meant to prioritize governance and not just do project for the sake of doing it. Nigeria is in a serious problem buy our leaders still feign ignorance of what we are passing through. Why must you construct new project while there is an existing one that serves the same purpose. Why not just repair the existing one till when the economy will be better but left the roads dilapidated and subject the citizens to hardship and untimely death because of bad roads across board.

Please I am waiting for you to tell me who and who went against the construction of 3rd mainland bridge.

Lithiumite:
Surplus or not, people felt the bridge was a waste and wasn't needed and accused those in govt of wanting to use it as a conduit pipe to steal money.....same is happening now.

So they start building, divert resources towards it and existing roads become unmotorable.
There are far more important roads, the East West road hasn't been completed.

bdon123:
Na idiots on this minister be.Answer d questions on why all federal roads hav been abandoned while u struggling to build new ones....n award contracts

It was the same thing that Peter Obi said but the unpatriotic elements in APC were attacking him. Why will a government neglect existing roads but keep awarding new roads that serve the same purpose with the with the old roads. It makes no sense at all.

SmartyPants:
Shattap. He never said the reps fella wont ever attain the same level. He said as of today the man has not attained it and he is right. Learn to respect your betters.

Umahi forgot that he is serving the people and not an issue of his immediate family. Please what brought in such vituperation from him when the Rep only doing his oversight work. The last time I checked I don't think the Rep has any personal issue with him as regards who is better.
We are talking about the development of our roads which he has not fare well in delivery the best for the country, he is instead awarding news roads and neglecting the existing ones. Virtually all our federal roads are deplorable and dead traps but our dishonourable minister is unabated awarding new contracts. Funnily must of these new roads awarded are not going to be completed in years to come. Then, you ask, why subjecting the lives of the citizens to untimely death chasing goose when there is an existing ones that can serve the same purpose as to reduce collateral damage on the citizens.

We know contract awarding fetch them more money but should any patriotic leader think highly of himself and his pocket than the lives he was voted and chosen to protect? I'm a serious democracy, David Umahi would have been relieved from his duty asap for going personal on national issue.

ntyce:
So they start building, divert resources towards it and existing roads become unmotorable.
There are far more important roads, the East West road hasn't been completed.

That doesn't stop or negate the importance of the coastal road and the badagry to Sokoto road.....with the coastal road, you should be able to do Lagos to PH in 4hrs,that makes a round trip possible in a day.....those old roads can be transferred to the concurrent list.

kunle4toyeyaho:
What else do you want from Mr. President after the FEC had given approval for repair of existing 260 federal roads? Repair of existing road is important, construction of Lagos- Calabar and Sokoto- Badagry expressway are equally important. God bless Nigeria forever

They are all important if the resources are readily available. They are the same government complaining about paucity of funds in the system and they are the same not ready to prioritize their businesses. What kind of government we have? Say one thing but do another thing. You cannot be complaining that there is no money but all your actions and inactions contradict your postures.
Most of these awarded roads have existing ones that are dilapidated and just require facelift but instead you leave that one and start constructing new one that may not see the light of the day in the next 5 or 7 years and there by subjecting the lives of the citizens to untold hardship. There's no single sense in what the leaders are doing.

Lithiumite:
That doesn't stop or negate the importance of the coastal road and the badagry to Sokoto road.....with the coastal road, you should be able to do Lagos to PH in 4hrs,that makes a round trip possible in a day.....those old roads can be transferred to the concurrent list.

Like leaders like followers. Always thinking anticlockwisely. Doing things rightly is an abomination in our society.
You know the years it would take for those trillions naira roads to be completed, like that coastal road has been projected to be completed in 15 years. Why should a reasonable leader subject the lives of his citizens to hardship for a project that will take over 15 years to complete?

You have not completed a project but you want the FG to transfer the burden to the state when they themselves are still battling with repairing and upgrading their internal roads. This your suggestion will make meaning if the FG have successfully completed the road, then, the old road can be transfer to the state for management. Lithiumite, you're not wise but just commenting blindly as a normal APC supporter. Your intelligence is skewed and need reformat. Your suggestion is liken to the Yoruba adage that says, oni oko ni ile, afi obo to ro. Try and be commenting with sense, it will cost you nothing.

Truth must be told, no matter what?.
The chairman is very correct in saying that the minister has misplaced priorities. I cannot see any justification for embarking on new road projects, instead of repairing the damaged roads round the whole country. From the east to the west, south and north, the roads are bad and there's the need to repair them instead of new road that will take decades to complete.

Fiscus105:
Meanwhile, these people are also human beings like you, blood flow in their vein like it does in you, wen you critical and attack someone too much, he bound to attack you back.


Many of you will never see anything good from Jerusalem, you must conderm to remain relevant.


What makes you rational is to blame them, when they err and praise, wen they do good.


Have you ever praised any govt officials, fed or state in ur life? If you see everything they are doing as bad, you, urself is worse than Lucifer.

You won't understand the bone of contention if you're the type that doesn't travel about. Virtually all the federal roads are dilapidated and just need facelift but instead awarding new roads that serve the same purpose.
What they are doing is liken to a man that his wife has pregnancy and because of that he left the children on ground uncared for.
They are just taking unwise decision and they don't want correction.

PrinceOfLagos:
What are you person achievements in life aside hating and castigating people bigger than you ?

The same David Umahi mentality. Please what brought this issue of what you have achieved or not achieved? You people should know that leaders are public servants and they are subject to scrutiny at all times for accountability but many of them doesn't want that and even you supporters are also supporting their arrogance. Any leader that doesn't want scrutiny and check is not fit to be one. All they want is for the people to be praise singing them while they do the wrong thing.

IfnobeGod20:
Like leaders like followers. Always thinking anticlockwisely. Doing things rightly is an abomination in our society.
You know the years it would take for those trillions naira roads to be completed, like that coastal road has been projected to be completed in 15 years. Why should a reasonable leader subject the lives of his citizens to hardship for a project that will take over 15 years to complete?

You have not completed a project but you want the FG to transfer the burden to the state when they themselves are still battling with repairing and upgrading their internal roads. This your suggestion will make meaning if the FG have successfully completed the road, then, the old road can be transfer to the state for management. Lithiumite, you're not wise but just commenting blindly as a normal APC supporter. Your intelligence is skewed and need reformat. Your suggestion is liken to the Yoruba adage that says, oni oko ni ile, afi obo to ro. Try and be commenting with sense, it will cost you nothing.

I gave you an analogy of 3rd MB when Lagos alone already had 2 bridges across the lagoon and the entire eastern region had only 1 across the Niger.....it made no sense to the antagonists at the time but where are we now with that.....if it takes 15 years to build,the road doesn't belong to tinubu but to Nigerians and its long overdue.

How many kilometres of the east west road is in bayelsa,how many km is in Rivers and what maintenance is required that the states can't handle,each state can take care of the failed portions within their domain,this has been done before especially during obj and yar adua and I remember this same tinubu started it when he was gov before others borrowed a clue from him.

You are absolving those dysfunctional govs from their responsibilities,obaseki is waiting for Abuja to come fix the bad stretch on same road at ologbo,by pass and the sapele rd axis within his state capital, portions not up to 30kms combined.....Lagos applied for many fed roads to be transferred to them because they prioritised the welfare of their citizens over primordial, selfish and myopic reasons,imagine Lagos waiting for FG to come fix lekki-epe express or ikorodu rd all the way to ikorodu town,just imagine....don't just criticise subjectively....the 3 mega rd projects badagry-ilela,Lagos to Calabar and Calabar to Abuja are legacy projects that will do the country a whole lot of good.....the lekki deeps sea port when it was started looked outlandish to narrow minded myopic beings like yourself but look what that project has done to that axis and Nigeria as a whole.

Yes of course

He is talking about Level of Madness

Nigerian politicians are overfed chickens. Add a little feather to them and see how arrogant and bragadocious they become. How people get so puffed up for stealing public funds and constituting nuisance in govt houses beats my imagination.

Omoejigbahe:
And replaced with my useless mother

I doubt her qualifications if you can't even couch for her

Arostar2023:
Oga sorry...I thought you were a Nigerian

When did being a Nigerian translate being an apc apologist

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Lithiumite:
I gave you an analogy of 3rd MB when Lagos alone already had 2 bridges across the lagoon and the entire eastern region had only 1 across the Niger.....it made no sense to the antagonists at the time but where are we now with that.....if it takes 15 years to build,the road doesn't belong to tinubu but to Nigerians and its long overdue.

How many kilometres of the east west road is in bayelsa,how many km is in Rivers and what maintenance is required that the states can't handle,each state can take care of the failed portions within their domain,this has been done before especially during obj and yar adua and I remember this same tinubu started it when he was gov before others borrowed a clue from him.

You are absolving those dysfunctional govs from their responsibilities,obaseki is waiting for Abuja to come fix the bad stretch on same road at ologbo,by pass and the sapele rd axis within his state capital, portions not up to 30kms combined.....Lagos applied for many fed roads to be transferred to them because they prioritised the welfare of their citizens over primordial, selfish and myopic reasons,imagine Lagos waiting for FG to come fix lekki-epe express or ikorodu rd all the way to ikorodu town,just imagine....don't just criticise subjectively....the 3 mega rd projects badagry-ilela,Lagos to Calabar and Calabar to Abuja are legacy projects that will do the country a whole lot of good.....the lekki deeps sea port when it was started looked outlandish to narrow minded myopic beings like yourself but look what that project has done to that axis and Nigeria as a whole.

You're commenting as if you're not a Nigerian and don't know the law. The law doesn't permit any state governor to repair any federal road without express permission from the FG. Same way, no individual can do state government road without express permission from the state governor. Every federal government roads constructed by the state governors, they seek for refunds from the FG. And do you think the FG is ready to part with money to state governor for repair of federal roads?

Again, you don't know that must of the roads scheduled sometimes to be completed for 2 years sometime lasted for 3 to 4 years. I remember the road from Abuja to Lokoja was awarded during the first term of OBJ but till date many portions of the road are yet to be fixed. That is a road awarded around 2001 or 2002 thereabout.

I did challenge you to mention those that challenged the construction of 3rd mainland bridge but you have not made mentioned of them. Please I still want you to mention those that challenged its construction.

Again, was the Victoria Island and Ebute Meta having a standard motorable road before the construction of 3rd mainland bridge? There was no such accessible road to link the two ends together which calls for the construction of the bridge then. Trying to make up this lie doesn't make any iota of sense and they are even incomparable.
Have you seen a father that his wife is pregnant and he neglect the existing children he has? That's what FG is doing. Won ni oyun sinu afobo toro.

This your mentality is something, trying to shift the blame and responsibility of the FG to the state while the same state government have enormous schedule to accomplish on their sleeves. You forgot that the FG go home with 53% of the monthly allocation while the rest 36 states plus FCT share 47% but still pushing more burden on the states just to exonerate the FG negligence.

The Lagos state you're using as an example, are only doing internal roads and doesn't have a larger landmass like other states. And most of these federal roads in Lagos are internal roads and not at the outskirts. So they are incomparable my brother.

I won't go low to your level because I am well trained and cultured. We are talking of roads repair but you're talking about lekki seaport. We are talking of federal roads that linked one state to another and not and internal project. Please put on your thinking cap and stop rigmaroling and swinging from left to right. You're conversing with an enlightening person please. I am cog sure you don't travel because if you do, you see won't be misyarning this way.

IfnobeGod20:
You're commenting as if you're not a Nigerian and don't know the law. The law doesn't permit any state governor to repair any federal road without express permission from the FG. Same way, no individual can do state government road without express permission from the state governor. Every federal government roads constructed by the state governors, they seek for refunds from the FG. And do you think the FG is ready to part with money to state governor for repair of federal roads?

Again, you don't know that must of the roads scheduled sometimes to be completed for 2 years sometime lasted for 3 to 4 years. I remember the road from Abuja to Lokoja was awarded during the first term of OBJ but till date many portions of the road are yet to be fixed. That is a road awarded around 2001 or 2002 thereabout.

I did challenge you to mention those that challenged the construction of 3rd mainland bridge but you have not made mentioned of them. Please I still want you to mention those that challenged its construction.

Again, was the Victoria Island and Ebute Meta having a standard motorable road before the construction of 3rd mainland bridge? There was no such accessible road to link the two ends together which calls for the construction of the bridge then. Trying to make up this lie doesn't make any iota of sense and they are even incomparable.
Have you seen a father that his wife is pregnant and he neglect the existing children he has? That's what FG is doing. Won ni oyun sinu afobo toro.

This your mentality is something, trying to shift the blame and responsibility of the FG to the state while the same state government have enormous schedule to accomplish on their sleeves. You forgot that the FG go home with 53% of the monthly allocation while the rest 36 states plus FCT share 47% but still pushing more burden on the states just to exonerate the FG negligence.

The Lagos state you're using as an example, are only doing internal roads and doesn't have a larger landmass like other states. And most of these federal roads in Lagos are internal roads and not at the outskirts. So they are incomparable my brother.

I won't go low to your level because I am well trained and cultured. We are talking of roads repair but you're talking about lekki seaport. We are talking of federal roads that linked one state to another and not and internal project. Please put on your thinking cap and stop rigmaroling and swinging from left to right. You're conversing with an enlightening person please. I am cog sure you don't travel because if you do, you see won't be misyarning this way.

Blow your trumpet to less enlightened people like yourself.....it's obvious you have limited understanding of how govt functions and rather than accepting the fact you make a volte face with your misplaced assertions.

What do you mean who were those that opposed the construction of the 3rd mainland bridge,I bet you don't even know who started that project and when....a project that was initiated in 1976 and didn't get completed till 1991 but the question I like to ask you is whether the road is not useful to Nigerians now as compared to what procrastinators like you at the time were saying to condemn it's construction.

I posted that those so called federal roads be removed from the exclusive list and put on the concurrent list so states can be able to fix the failed portions within their states but yet again you condemned that as typical of your ilk who do nothing but complain without offering any solutions......the entire failed portions of the east west road within edo state isn't upto 30km in total,a responsible gov would ensure this is done to alleviate the suffering if his people who are the major users of these roads whithin Benin.

I have a problem when people supports the lack of initiative of this lazy dysfunctional govs who are always quick to point to Abuja when there is a lot they can do to develop their states considering the allocations they get,many LGs are laying comatose because they have been stifled by the govs that starve them of resources.

And for your information,since you couldn't decipher my inference that there were already 2 bridges across the lagoon when the 3rd mainland was being initiated and it seemed out of place at the time to embark on such huge project just as you are all hating now on the coastal rd project and other legacy projects of this govt.

For your information lekki epe exp way is an interstate road as it takes you into Ogun state through the east, ikorodu rd also take you to Ogun state through mosinmi to sagamu.....the delta end of the east west road only has a problem along the sapele rd axis with some sections failing not upto 30kms in total and you are telling me delta can't fix that with all the allocation it's getting but waiting for Abuja when tinubu or his people would hardly play that road but deltans are the ones who would.

Mr enlightened.

Says an Engr of color riot useless white elephant projects of Ebonyi state.


People who made their fortunes through politics shouldn't talk when real rich men are talking.

Without politics, who knows this one.

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CommonSense1967:
It must be in the DNA.
Small money and they calling themselves "Billionaire". Do you know who I am?
Very braggadocios.

Just imagine if Dangote na Igbo man....wow we won't be able to breathe.

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Ikinternational:
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