₦airaland Forum

In a few minutes, I will start tweeting
about the Petroleum Special Trust Fund
(PTF) headed @ThisIsBuhari btw May '95
and May '99.
2. There have been allegations that the
PTF projects were lopsided in favour of
the north, aimed at portraying
@ThisIsBuhari as sectional.
3. There have also been allegations of
fraud in PTF, meant to show that
@ThisIsBuhari not as clean as portrayed.
4. I will provide some background on PTF
and present some facts based on public
documents and leave you to draw your
conclusions.
5. PTF was set up by Gen Abacha in May
'95, headed by @ThisIsBuhari, with Chief
Tayo Akpata as Secretary.
Other members representing different
zones were Y. Gusau, A Talib, Rufus
Giwa, Prof. Chimere Ikoku, Prof. JP Clark,
D.B Zang.
7. PTF was charged with using portion of
increase in fuel price to rehabilitate
roads, schools, hospitals, water schemes
n provide supplies
8. Despite charges of being a parallel
govt, at no point was PTF budget more
than 10% of total budget of the
federation.
9. Widely circulated allegation of lopsided
siting of PTF projects by Afenifere a bit
exaggerated.
10. It is true that out of the 13,090km
roads rehabilitated, 32% in the south and
68% in the north. But that's half the story.
11. In terms of km, 7.3% of d rehabilitated
roads were in SE; 8.5% in SW;16.25 in SS;
21.1% in NW; 23.4% in NE; and 23.5% in
NC.
12. But it is also true that the landmass
varies among zones and same with
degree of difficulty and cost.
13. A look at the cost of roads in different
zones and the overall allocation to zones
in all PTF projects show a different
picture.
N77. 2b was committed to roads out of
the total of N187b allocated to PTF till
May 99.
15. Of the N77.2b to roads, SW got N 9.7
b; SE, N14.5b; SS, N 30. 5b. This means
SW got 12.6% of road budget; SE, 18.8%;
SS, 39.5%.
16. Of d N77.2b committed to roads, NE
got N7.1b; NC, N7. 4b; NW, N7.9b,
meaning NE got 9.2%, NC got 9.6% and
NW 10.3%.
17. This shows that in terms of cost, the
variation btw north and south reversed in
favour of d south.
18. Under roads, the south got 70% in
terms of amount allocated and the north
got 30%.
19. It may sound counter intuitive, but it
is also an established fact that road
construction costs more in the south
than in the north.
20. Those circulating facts about
kilometers of roads possibly also have
information about cost of the roads and
total allocation.
21. Possibly, they selectively chose the
data set that will help their argument that
@ThisIsBuhari is sectional.
22. Also, of the total N187b allocated to
PTF, the south got more than the north.
23. In the 6 areas under PTF, SE got
N26.9b; SW, N28.8b; SS, N49b.
Representing 15% for SE, 15.4% for SW,
and 26.2% for SS.
24. That is a total of 56.7% for the south
out of the entire budget of PTF.
25. Of d total PTF allocation, NC got
N20bn; NE, N26b; and NW N34. 9b.
Meaning 10.7% for NC; 13.9% for NE; and
18.7% for NW.
26. That's 43.3% for the North out of the
total N187b allocation to PTF.
27. On allegations of fraud in PTF under
@ThisIsBuhari, it is important to bear a
few things in mind.
28. OBJ set up two interim mgt
committees on PTF, before eventually
asking PTF to be wounded up.
29. First committee was under Dr. Haroun
Adamu. 2nd under Alh. Garba Mubi. Dr
Adamu Maina - Waziri was asked to wind
up PTF.
30. For two years, police and SSS
interogated officials of Afri-Project
Consortium, project consultant to PTF.
31. Up till today, no one charged or
prosecuted. In fact two of d founders of
Afri-Project Consortium later served in
OBJ's govt.
32. Murtala Aliyu was minister of state for
works, and Amina Mohammed served as
SSA on the MDGs and is now an adviser
to the UN Sec-Gen.
33. However, anytime @ThisIsBuhari is
planning to contest some people dredge
up allegations of sectionalism and fraud
in PTF.
34. Sometimes it is claimed that no one
prosecuted so as not to embarrass
@ThisIsBuhari. But what does that say
about those making d claims?
35/35. This is it for now on PTF and
@ThisIsBuhari. Good evening.)

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/26/anytime-buhari-contests-they-dredge-false-accusations-sectionalism-ptf”-–-columnist

I pray Nigerians wil learn to carry out research before jumping to construction.

What exactly is PDP trying 2 gain, by trying 2 smear mud on d image of dis man, I av always been a supporter of GEJ, but I think its time I start thinking twice, if d only idea u av of campaigning is by try 2 tarnish ur opponents Good image, den I think ppl wu call him stupid are not @ fault

God bless the people's general

Ayopercent:
10. It is true that out of the 13,090km
roads rehabilitated, 32% in the south and
68% in the north. But that's half the story.
11. In terms of km, 7.3% of d rehabilitated
roads were in SE; 8.5% in SW;16.25 in SS;
21.1% in NW; 23.4% in NE; and 23.5% in
NC.
12. But it is also true that the landmass
varies among zones and same with
degree of difficulty and cost.
13. A look at the cost of roads in different
zones and the overall allocation to zones
in all PTF projects show a different
picture.
N77. 2b was committed to roads out of
the total of N187b allocated to PTF till
May 99.
15. Of the N77.2b to roads, SW got N 9.7
b; SE, N14.5b; SS, N 30. 5b. This means
SW got 12.6% of road budget; SE, 18.8%;
SS, 39.5%.
16. Of d N77.2b committed to roads, NE
got N7.1b; NC, N7. 4b; NW, N7.9b,
meaning NE got 9.2%, NC got 9.6% and
NW 10.3%.
17. This shows that in terms of cost, the
variation btw north and south reversed in
favour of d south.
18. Under roads, the south got 70% in
terms of amount allocated and the north
got 30%.
19. It may sound counter intuitive, but it
is also an established fact that road
construction costs more in the south
than in the north.
20. Those circulating facts about
kilometers of roads possibly also have
information about cost of the roads and
total allocation.
21. Possibly, they selectively chose the
data set that will help their argument that
@ThisIsBuhari is sectional.
22. Also, of the total N187b allocated to
PTF, the south got more than the north.
23. In the 6 areas under PTF, SE got
N26.9b; SW, N28.8b; SS, N49b.
Representing 15% for SE, 15.4% for SW,
and 26.2% for SS.
24. That is a total of 56.7% for the south
out of the entire budget of PTF.
25. Of d total PTF allocation, NC got
N20bn; NE, N26b; and NW N34. 9b.
Meaning 10.7% for NC; 13.9% for NE; and
18.7% for NW.
26. That's 43.3% for the North out of the
total N187b allocation to PTF.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/26/anytime-buhari-contests-they-dredge-false-accusations-sectionalism-ptf”-–-columnist

one can ignore the usual bigots and hate-mongering characters here, but if Afenifere knows this here to be facts and still prefers to focus attention of the people on ONLY kilometres of road per region in what would now seem a deliberate attempt to malign a good man's integrity, then only one word fits the group: SHAME