BiafranNigerian:
What stops all these politicians from just including the Rail project AGAIN and signing the budget instead of making needless noise ? Such a disgrace.

igboboy3:


The Senator said it was not included in the Budget that was sent from the Executive. It was added later and was sent to a sub-committee not to the Clerk.
Accept it, Pa Buhari can't prepare a budget

Tokety7:


The twitter fool doesn't know what goes on in the senate. He spends his entire time on twitter.

aresa:



It's like NL went to the land of dummies and crazies to load up dummies and crazies and just dump them on NL...


Sometimes I just wonder...

vascey:
While we insult each other we fail to highlight the salient points.

The Honorable Minister while defending the budget to the committee of land transport presented a supplementary budget to them.

That is the point in contention.

Question: Is that the way to resend budget to NASS? Is it appropriate for Amaechi to send the updated copy of the budget to just the committee while excluding the other members of NASS? Isn't there a due process for this kind of correction or amendment. Was it followed? Is it reasonable to assert that since the committee on land transport had been provided with a fresh budget, therefore the entire members of NASS had been provided the details?

Simple accounting and finance knowledge would tell you that assuming Total T remains the same, once X is credited somewhere, same X must be debited somewhere else.

What did Gbenga Ashafa do when he was presented with a budget different from that presented to his colleagues?

The wailers are quick to say FG is confused while the zombies are quick to point fingers at SS/SE.

What a shame! This whole freaking drama is a shame.

richidinho:


bros, we dont need railway but our own sea port.. u hia

TonyeBarcanista:

I can only take Ashafa words IF it is confirmed by the House Committee on Transportation Chairman. for now it is thrash....

TonyeBarcanista:
When did Amaechi add the Lagos-Calabar rail project? I still find it hard to believe.

egbonnla:
Thank you bro. I really wondered why most Nairalanders are not reading between the lines before taking positions. What we have unfolding before our eyes is disagreement between PDP and APC on how to budget for looting spree in 2016. Character is like smoke....in the next few weeks we will start knowing that the difference between APC and PDP is just alphabets.

amaechi1:
I am so glad this has attracted national attention. Those against and those for. But one things is clear, everyone is asking our leaders to be proactive and up and doing.

Secondly, the chairman on land and transportation has come to say it was included in the amended budget, a simple approach to all this is simple amendment by the NASS. We should bear in mind that the presidency insisting to have it in the budget means we'll for nigeria. So, both party should do the needful.

Another, we need to draw the attention of NASS is the removal of AIDS drugs from the budget. They need to visit it as well.

PassingShot:

Read what you've written yourself and decide if you're making any sense.

The issue is, was a supplementary budget submitted for the rail project or not?

Did the Land Transports Committee receive the inclusion or not?

Did the committee submit the budget to the Appropriation Committee or not?

Was the project fraudulently removed by some legislooters from the final approved budget or not?

Now, look yourself in the mirror.

Unibenfucker:


So is it your clueless Dr of zoology (Goodluck) that can prepare a budget Smh

shaddoww:



http://saharareporters.com/2016/04/11/federal-government-included-and-defended-inclusion-lagos-calabar-rail-2016-budget-senate

TonyeBarcanista:
When did Amaechi add the Lagos-Calabar rail project? I still find it hard to believe.

OgbeifunErom:


So there are still people that respect that comedian?

Na wa ooo

freeborn76:

As usual albino Senator representing Twitter constituency has already tweeted that there was nothing like Lagos-Calabar rail project; what a shame. Can somebody tell me one major contribution Senator Ben Bruce has made since joining the National Assembly? He seem to spend more time on his phone than on reading between the lines of very important sociopolitical issues. All I know is that Buhari, Osinbajo and Udoma are too dignified to lie just to win cheap political points...rather than clamour and insist on the inclusion of the rail project in the budget, some busy bodies here are insulting the presidency...kontinu!

PassingShot:

Read what you've written yourself and decide if you're making any sense.

The issue is, was a supplementary budget submitted for the rail project or not?

Did the Land Transports Committee receive the inclusion or not?

Did the committee submit the budget to the Appropriation Committee or not?

Was the project fraudulently removed by some legislooters from the final approved budget or not?

Now, look yourself in the mirror.

vascey:
While we insult each other we fail to highlight the salient points.

The Honorable Minister while defending the budget to the committee of land transport presented a supplementary budget to them.

That is the point in contention.

Question: Is that the way to resend budget to NASS? Is it appropriate for Amaechi to send the updated copy of the budget to just the committee while excluding the other members of NASS? Isn't there a due process for this kind of correction or amendment. Was it followed? Is it reasonable to assert that since the committee on land transport had been provided with a fresh budget, therefore the entire members of NASS had been provided the details?

Simple accounting and finance knowledge would tell you that assuming Total T remains the same, once X is credited somewhere, same X must be debited somewhere else.

What did Gbenga Ashafa do when he was presented with a budget different from that presented to his colleagues?

The wailers are quick to say FG is confused while the zombies are quick to point fingers at SS/SE.

What a shame! This whole freaking drama is a shame.

dtruth3:
Very simple, this is Tinubu's project.
The Pro-Sariki Senators who are in the majority discovered it, and they had no option but to throw it out.

TheGoodJoe:


Why not have both?

Why not collect this one President Buhari is offering? After that ask for more. A bird at hand...

Do you know how many people travel from Port-Harcourt, Calabar, Aba to Lagos everyday?

This Railway will even provide transportation within the Niger Delta like from Uyo to Calabar, Calabar to Obudu etc.

freeborn76:

As usual albino Senator representing Twitter constituency has already tweeted that there was nothing like Lagos-Calabar rail project; what a shame. Can somebody tell me one major contribution Senator Ben Bruce has made since joining the National Assembly? He seem to spend more time on his phone than on reading between the lines of very important sociopolitical issues. All I know is that Buhari, Osinbajo and Udoma are too dignified to lie just to win cheap political points...rather than clamour and insist on the inclusion of the rail project in the budget, some busy bodies here are insulting the presidency...kontinu!

richidinho:


Buhari offer what, let me tell you all na propaganda, he is the one that cancelled the contract in the first place
see this

BeardedMeat:
... why would any right thinking law maker expunge such a critical project from the budget? ...

igboboy3:



The opposite of Buhari is not Goodluck.

Stop thinking like a fowl