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greatiyk4u:
A SNAPSHOP VIEW OF 2016 BUDGET AS PROPOSED BY VARIOUS STATES IN NIGERIA



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Take a critical look at the budget and see states which are following the part of change.....Note the figures are in Naira

Federal Republic of Nigeria.......6.08T

Abia State .................INCONCLUSIVE

Adamawa State .................100.89B

Akwa Ibom State.................426B

Anambra State ................. 101.4B

Bauchi State ................. 102B

Bayelsa State................. INCONCLUSIVE

Benue State ................. INCONCLUSIVE

Borno State ................. INCONCLUSIVE

Cross River State............ 350B

Delta State ................. 266B

Ebonyi State ................. 101.1B

Edo State ................. 111.5B

Ekiti State ................. 67B (the least)

Enugu State................. INCONCLUSIVE

Gombe State .................INCONCLUSIVE

Imo State ................. 141.2B

Jigawa State ................. 137.2B

Kaduna State ................. 171.7B

Kano State ................. 275B

Katsina State ................. 110B

Kebbi State ................. 107B

Kogi State ................. INCONCLUSIVE

Kwara State .................116.2 B

Lagos State ................662.58B (highest)

Nasarawa State............INCONCLUSIVE

Niger State .................INCONCLUSIVE

Ogun State .................200B

Ondo State .................INCONCLUSIVE

Osun State .................150.7B (hmmmmm)

Oyo State ................. 165.5B

Plateau State ............INCONCLUSIVE

Rivers State................. 370B

Sokoto State............112.5B

Taraba State .........INCONCLUSIVE

Yobe State .............. 80.6B

Zamfara State.......92.8B

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theshadyexpress:
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Category:News | Date:2008-06-10
Buhari, Abdulsalami, IBB under fire over Abacha loot
From Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin

Three former Heads of State who defended one of their own, the late Gen. Sani Abacha, against the common belief that he looted the treasury were under fire yesterday.

Generals Ibrahim Baban-gida, Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulsalami Abubakar were hit by a hail of criticisms for describing the claim that the late Gen. Abacha was a thief as a fairy tale. They spoke in Kano at the 10th anniversary lecture in memory of the late Head of State.

But those who reacted to the comment yesterday said the ex-leaders were standing a fact of history on its head.

The Action Congress (AC) described the party’s comment as "a disgusting case of revisionism." In a statement issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it was ridiculous and curious for the former Heads of State to have waited 10 years before finding their voices to defend Abacha.

The AC also said the suggestion by Gen. Abdulsalami that past administrations should not be probed smacked of self-preservation rather than patriotism. It added that heeding such advice would thwart all efforts to enthrone the rule of law, due process, probity and good governance.

According to the AC, Nigeria would need to return looted funds repatriated by some foreign countries and apologise to those countries as well as the Abacha family, if the ex-leaders’ comment were of any value.

Only last week, the government of Switzerland said it had returned all of the $505million (N59.05billion) looted funds stashed in its banks by the late Gen. Abacha. The repatriated money is part of an estimated $3billion of public funds believed to have been stored up by the late Head of State in banks in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Britain and Luxembourg, besides Switzerland.

AC said yesterday: "We are sure that those countries will be laughing at Nigeria now. What a shame! If the former leaders’ comments that the late Abacha ran one of the best administrations in this country were to be taken seriously, then the trial of (Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, Col. Hamza) Al-Mustapha and others for atrocities allegedly committed during the Abacha regime should be stopped forthwith, while the accused should all be granted national honours to mitigate the suffering occasioned by their prolonged trial.

"We are worried by the aggressive but belated defence offered by these leaders, who incidentally all passed the batons of powers among themselves – the late Abacha inclusive! We are compelled to ask: what is their agenda? What are they up to?

"Where were they when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was telling whoever cared to listen how billions of dollars in public funds were spirited to foreign bank accounts by the late Head of State? Why have they suddenly found their voice now that Obasanjo has left office?’’

The party noted that Gen. Babangida and the others were close to ex-President Obasanjo, either as co-former military leaders or as members of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); "yet none of them dared raise a voice against the allegations of massive looting of public treasury which he levelled against Abacha." It advised the former leaders, by virtue of their highly-respected positions, to take care in their utterances so as not to send wrong signals to Nigerians and the world community.

The Lagos State chapter of the AC described the former Heads of State’s comment as "a desperate attempt by former despots to buy the reprieve of history for one of their ilk, together with whom they ruined Nigeria."


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Kenai:
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday flagged off free feeding in the state primary schools in what the governor described as a fulfillment of his pledge to provide free education to pupils in Kaduna state. According to him, the free feeding programme is expected to benefit 1.5 million children in over 4,000 pubic primary schools across the state.
Meanwhile Social crusaders and activists from Kaduna, have released pictures to condemn the School feeding initiative maintaining the the program was unnecessary and a charade especially given the state of infrastructure decay in the school which should have been first addressed.
According to a commenter, he said that government of Kaduna should have ’empowered their parents and use the food money to equip the class.’ Another activist Zina Dabo said on twitter; “Seriously @elrufai do you think what these kids need is propaganda slice of yam not chairs? @shehusani @NGRWailers“
According to El-Rufai, the programme is directly creating 17,000 jobs for caterers, who in turn will employ others to support them. “It is an unprecedented undertaking in the state, but one that we solemnly pledge to do during the campaign.
“In seeking to take care of our children we are creating jobs, boosting demand and expanding people to new skills and hygienic standard, and providing extra income.”
The pictures show students in schools without furniture; chairs and tables who were seen eating from the plates across various primary schools in the state. Photos below:


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L.E.A. Badarawa. No chairs, no doors, no windows and not enough teachers.



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These are the pictures the governor unfortunately doesn't want you to see. And it ties in with the typical APC leadership style - Ignore the basic essentials you're supposed to provide, and focus on the cosmetic and unsustainable political gestures that will only earn you quick and easy brownie points from the gullible.
This man couldn't provide desks, teachers and laboratory infrastructure, he skipped them all for this recurrent expenditure that will do nothing to improve the QUALITY of education in those schools.
This was the exact same way a certain governor employed Twitter shills and media jesters to whitewash his image with endless propaganda for all of 2012, 2013 and 2014, until the crash in oil prices exposed him for the wasteful, shortsighted, and totally CLUELESS leader he really was ('Oil prices have fallen, so my hands are tied. I can't pay your salaries. in the mean time, pray for the state. Bye').

And the same thing looks to play out in Kaduna soon.
We just dey watch.


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Firefire:

‘A budget that moves domestic spending in Aso Villa from N580m to N1.7bn cannot be a budget of change’

Abuja – Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe (PDP Abia South) on Wednesday in Abuja, berated the 2016 budget and called on President Muhammaduu Buhari to withdraw it and go back to the drawing board.

Abaribe while making contributions during the consideration of the budget, said the proposal was faulty on many grounds and could not be implemented at it was.

He said that predication of oil benchmark at 38 dollars per barrel when the crude oil price had fallen below 30 dollars per barrel made the budget unrealistic.

Abaribe faulted the government for increasing spending by 30 per cent based on borrowing.

“Mr President, my colleagues, this budget is indeed unique. After the budget presentation, the finance minister has never come to explain the details of the budget as it is normally done.

“It is a budget of change I agree, but it is a change in the wrong direction. I say it is a change in the wrong direction because it says that it is based on zero budgeting requiring all expenses to be fully justified.

“Mr President, a budget that increases spending up to 30 per cent based solely on borrowing, in what way are we justified? That is the question we want to ask the people who brought this budget.

“We know what is going on in the global economy: this budget is predicated on an oil benchmark of 38 dollars per barrel and I can now say that with oil being 28 dollars today, this budget is dead on arrival.

“The job of the opposition is to help the government to get its priorities right, so I want to please urge this government to withdraw this budget and go back to the drawing board,” he said.

The senator also faulted the adjustments made in the budget as well as allocation for spending in the Aso Rock Villa, saying that it was too exorbitant.

He said that the adjustments rather than reduce spending in areas where they were not necessary only spread it into different offices.

“Mr President, a budget that moves domestic spending within Aso Villa from N580 million to N1.7 billion cannot be a budget of change.

“We were told that in the revised budget there was an adjustment due to error, we agree but what has happened is that up to N7 billion were moved from buying vehicles and spread to offices.

“It also increased the spending that is due to renovations within the Villa.

“They are going to renovate the Villa with N3.9 billion: what else do you want to renovate there that Nigerians will see in the Year 2016?” he asked.

However, in his contribution, Sen. Ahmed Lawan (APC Yobe North) blamed the previous administration for the lack of funds due to the embezzlement witnessed in previous governments.

He said that this was the 17th budget he would be debating as a legislator and noted that not more than 40 per cent implementation was achieved in the last 16 years.

“The proposal before us is the first budget where the executive has deemed it necessary to give ordinary Nigerians genuine hope.

“N500 billion allocated for school feeding and social SAFTEY NET is commendable.

“It is time to say oil should not continue to play dominant role as we have suffered economically and politically: it is time to diversify this economy.

“The direction of the executive is the way to go. `That is, we should make every effort to have the real sector-agric mining and manufacturing.

“The budget deserves the support of everyone, including my colleagues on the other side. When we were in the opposition we supported the PDP, they should support us,” he said.


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