Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, on Thursday, disclosed that new residences being built for presiding officers of the National Assembly will cost N27.1billion.

The minister, who made the disclosure during his 2015 FCT national budget presentation to the House Committee on FCT, chaired by Honourable Emmanuel Jime, added that presently, the project had reached 58 per cent level.

The minister, however, added that a balance of N15.3billion would be required to complete the project, saying the projects specifically had two components which entailed the provision of residences for presiding officers of the National Assembly, which comprised the main building, ADC's House, Guest House, Staff quarters, gate House, Banquet Hall, Chapel, Mosque and the Power House.

He further disclosed that N1.5billion was appropriated for the project in 2014, while N164.2million was actually released, adding that N11.8billion had been paid till date.

According to him, N2 billion had been proposed in 2015 for the project.
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Now the looting continues

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It's absolutely disgusting that the government blatantly builds billion Naira houses for a few individuals, a vast majority of her workers are paid a paltry N18k minimum wage.
God is watching.

News like this always makes me angry,
We are wasting this oil money like there is no tommorrow,forgetting that oil could be selling for 10$ in the next 10yrs, i always say incase oil becomes worthless today, what could we point out as what we did with the oil money, is it the epileptic power supply, or the bad roads or the tokunbo trains?, countries like Saudi Arabia, Uae, Russia, Norway etc, have saved billions of dollars of their oil money, so that if a day comes that oil becomes worthless, the have what to fall back on, same cannot be said of our leaders, who are only after 'wetin to chop'

One can only imagine the outrage in some other democracies if the citizens find out that their national government is spending $135 million on the official houses of some members of the legislature. It's really crazy.

We deserve d leaders we get.na we vote DM dr nah

[b]Do these foolish bastards know that 27 billion is an amount of money which more than 20000 youths can use to start their own business if they are given 1 million naira each as a start up capital for each of them,20000 youths multiplied by 1000000naira each =20billion naira and do they know how many certain jobs that can create especially when those youths also employ other people through their businesses which will definitely lead to more employment for a lot of people ....do these our leaders even think with their brains at all??are they sure they make use of their common sense??do they even care about the masses??GOD please we don't deserve all this foolish leaders leading this country...GOD will punish all the enemies of the masses...and the annoying thing is that they will say they are there to serve the people instead of them to tell us that they are there to serve their bank accounts,bunch of thieves and annoying people......***angrily goes to bed***

lalasticlala ,seun,please this news should be on the frontpage...let nigerians see what this foolish people are using our money to do.....[/b]

themilanway:
N27billion naira?I dont know whether to laugh or cry.

You have to do both..

You have to cry for the masses,then you have to laugh at the stupidity and wickedness of our so called leaders..

Wat a nation unda pdp rule...we need. change

N27billion naira?I dont know whether to laugh or cry.

This country is damned sick

wakacome:
[b]Do these foolish bastards know that 27 billion is an amount of money which more than 20000 youths can use to start their own business if they are given 1 million naira each as a start up capital for each of them,20000 youths multiplied by 1000000naira each =20billion naira and do they know how many certain jobs that can create especially when those youths also employ other people through their businesses which will definitely lead to more employment for a lot of people ....do these our leaders even think with their brains at all??are they sure they make use of their common sense??do they even care about the masses??GOD please we don't deserve all this foolish leaders leading this country...GOD will punish all the enemies of the masses...and the annoying thing is that they will say they are there to serve the people instead of them to tell us that they are there to serve their bank accounts,bunch of thieves and annoying people......***angrily goes to bed***

lalasticlala ,seun,please this news should be on the frontpage...let nigerians see what this foolish people are using our money to do.....[/b]

You have to do both..

You have to cry for the masses,then you have to laugh at the stupidity and wickedness of our so called leaders..

Can some one please tell me what has David Mark done for his people since becoming senate president?

People like ought to be picking beans in jail.

I feel like pulling out my hair.

Its that bad

wakacome:
[b]Do these foolish bastards know that 27 billion is an amount of money which more than 20000 youths can use to start their own business if they are given 1 million naira each as a start up capital for each of them,20000 youths multiplied by 1000000naira each =20billion naira and do they know how many certain jobs that can create especially when those youths also employ other people through their businesses which will definitely lead to more employment for a lot of people ....do these our leaders even think with their brains at all??are they sure they make use of their common sense??do they even care about the masses??GOD please we don't deserve all this foolish leaders leading this country...GOD will punish all the enemies of the masses...and the annoying thing is that they will say they are there to serve the people instead of them to tell us that they are there to serve their bank accounts,bunch of thieves and annoying people......***angrily goes to bed***

lalasticlala ,seun,please this news should be on the frontpage...let nigerians see what this foolish people are using our money to do.....[/b]

You have to do both..

You have to cry for the masses,then you have to laugh at the stupidity and wickedness of our so called leaders..

Can some one please tell me what has David Mark done for his people since becoming senate president?

People like him ought to be picking beans in jail.

I feel like pulling out my hair.

Its that bad

Lobatan ooo. Oluwa gba wa lowo awon adigunjale to wa lorilede wa. Awon ole, alatenuje, ika wonyi. God please save us from the armed robbers in this country. Wicked and soulless. So where have these bastards been living? Is it under the bloody bridge. How can they be so insensitive. That Bala Mohammed deserved the pelting he got in bauchi. I'm going to watch the video now to have a good laugh. Greedy bastards.

In the US, only the President and VP are the only elected federal officials entitled to an official residence.

Lord have mercy