cktheluckyman:


you should rather ask your SW APC senators what they were doing when the budget was amended after all the rail lines would even pass through more SW states than those of the SS/SE

Remii:
sadly those SS/SE appear like someone that can cut his nose to spite his face

santori:



you forgot southwest already has one that is covered (kano-lagos) while southeast and south south has non. keep depriving your region developmental projects all in the name of Daura President kunu sipping mallam is the president of your homeland.

the northerners are alway wiser, as much as they hated jonathan, they never rejected the alimajiri schools and other developmental projects he brought to them. infact they were asking for more.

do you know Jonathan goverment kick started the building of the first fast train in Nigeria between abuja and kaduna. the wiser northerners did not play politics with it, rather they were encouraging him to finish it up quick.

you guys needs to understand when to separate partisanship from development

TheGoodJoe:

Why are the South South Senators still quiet?

I do not understand. Are the for the project or are they against it?

Reference:


Amaechi does not represent the south, he represents the government. He is not elected, the legislators are, so it is up to the people they represent to judge or appraise their performance. I think you should understand democracy. The rail line will not affect everyone in the south. It may not pass through all the southern/eastern states but the constituency projects are grass-roots targeted and if done well will popularise and return the legislators affected whether you like it or not. That is a fact.

Bgorgeous:
pple like you should be living in the zoo , why didn't those senators cut down on their salaries and allowance s and of removing a capital project because they don't like who is charge? Nonsense

sleazy5:


You've not answered my question. Since when does the law permit a minister to submit a supplementary copy of his budget to the National assembly?. Put in another way is the National assembly permitted by law to receive the budget of a ministry whether substantive or supplementary copy from the minister himself?
When you've answered my question we can trash the issue of comprehension....

modath:


Go Joor, you think I'm complementing una? Not at all, enslaving others is not a positive attitude & don't forget that of 16yrs, the South held on for 14+ yrs!!

Just reiterating the sad state of affairs down south!

shamecurls:


PDP or APC, The North leads them and they will keep following till Christ comes

#FearNorth

pchukwudi:


So in your ALL SMARTY PANT reasoning faculty it's now the minister's job to present a supplementary budget to NASS, right?

You guys should at least have a litte sense of decency in zombiesm na.

If it was truly an error from day one, what then stops the president from sending in a supplementary budget proposal OFFICIALLY? Why are you guys always thinking and doing things from the rear like monkies all the time?

chukwudi44:


so Goje and Jibrin are now from the SS/SE? Oya continue.So your SW Kinsmen would not also want to travel to Calabar by train ni? Just like we have SS/SW senators in the senate we also have your senators from the SW

PassingShot:

Dull thing, the question is, was the supplementary provision accepted by the Land Transports Committee or not?

Was it defended by Transport Minister or not?

Was it later submitted to the Appropriation Committee by the Land Transports Committee or not?

If answer to all of the above is "yes', then it is safe to say that you are dull.

pchukwudi:


1. Was the supplementary provision accepted by the Land Transports Committee or not? YES, it was.

2. Was it defended by Transport Minister or not? YES it was.

3. Was it later submitted to the Appropriation Committee by the Land Transports Committee or not. YES, too.

But you know what? All the above are ILLEGAL.

So the house leadership (not the compromised commitee) did the needful by refusing to inject illegality into the appropriation bill (mind you they did not REMOVE it, as some lying demons in the presidency wanted to manipulate folks like you into believing).

One more thing:

It was NASS that established the committe. The committe did not establish NASS. Thus the committe is bound to work with the dicument given to it by NASS. The committe has no right to present a NEW budget proposal to NASS. The committee gets its orders and appropriation documents OFFICIALLY from NASS not from ministers or through the backdoor.

Got it zombie?

MabraO:


Why is comprehension ur problem
The chairman for committee of land transport accepted it. It is in constitution if a mistake was made or there was an omission somewhere u can include or correct such mistake. It is allowed.
I know u can't really differentiate between budget nd copy that is y u keep asking the Same irrelevant question. We in this life to learn.

PassingShot:

Dull thing,
Was the rejection done openly or in secrecy?

Why was it not made known that it was not going to be included to the Land Transports Committee by the Appropriation Committee?

Why was the budget for it spread over other provisions?

Empty brain!

PassingShot:

Dull thing,
Was the rejection done openly or in secrecy?

Why was it not made known that it was not going to be included to the Land Transports Committee by the Appropriation Committee?

Why was the budget for it spread over other provisions?

Empty brain!

Sibrah:
PDP is still holding us back with what's left of its influence. 2019 will be PDP cleansing.

PassingShot:

Dull thing,
Was the rejection done openly or in secrecy?

Why was it not made known that it was not going to be included to the Land Transports Committee by the Appropriation Committee?

Why was the budget for it spread over other provisions?

Empty brain!

DIKEnaWAR:
Lies going and coming..flying left and right.
These people are not serious and ready for the task of governing this country.

So after the President had presented the budget, Amechi went and presented his version to Sen. Gbenga Ashafa and it was smuggled in? Or please what are they telling us?

Aufbauh:
I have followed up political developments from the twilight of this administration and find it hard to understand the grouse of the senators most especially those from the SE/SS with Rt Hon Rotimi Chubuike Ameachi.
At every turn of time and event they tried fruitlessly to paint this man as the enemy of his people meanwhile they are truly the wolf in sheep clothing. Most times they try to co-opt the Northern senators to buy their sentiment.

With the press statement released by Senator Gbenga Ashafa, Senate Committee chairman on road transport, those pathetic souls should hide their heads between their legs in shame.

Pennsylvania:


Did you even read the article? What has SS/SE senators got to do with this? Isn't the supposed project suppose to go through 3 SWstern states? Why aren't you pointing out your own Senators incompetence?
Rubbish!

seunmsg:


The truth is out there if we are all interested in the truth. The project was erroneously omitted by the Budget office in the initial compilation that was submitted. The executive realised this mistake, approached the relevant committee and presented and defended the corrected version.

The chairman of the transport committee has even told us that the corrected version that includes the Lagos-Calabar rail was approved and submitted to the appropriation committee. So, why is thet National Assembly trying to justify the removal of the project from the budget with the initial error that was made? It is just like hiding behind one finger. There's no justification for what they have done and that project must be returned to the budget.

BeardedMeat:
The south south senators are quiet because when everybody is talking, nobody is talking. The south south senators you talk about, is any of them the chairman of the comittee empowered to speak categorically on the issue? Has Ben Bruce not taken a position? Has Amaechi who is at the centre of everything issued a statement? Has the budget office taken a position? Can't you see that there is highwired politics of pride, ego and superiority playing out within the ranks and file of APC? The south south senators and south east which are mainly in the opposition should just siddon look and allow APC satisfy their egos. And BTW, apart from Ashafa who made a statement, who else from the south west has said any other thing about this?
The project in question is for the benefit of all and the lawmakers have told buhari that he should sign the budget for the interest of Nigerians and then bring whatever is left out that should be there in the supplementary.

The president rejected this olive branch and instead went away to far away china. Bros, allow APC to fight and settle themselves you hia.

MabraO:


Olodo ponbele ni e
Since wen does supplementary copy translate to supplementary budget?
Na wa oh na comprehension do u this one so

Guyman02:


The project will pass through 3 SW States, so they should be concerned too, it will not pass through any SE State

Reference:


You are highly mistaken if you think that constituency projects do not matter. These are grass-roots people thinking micro you are talking about and will not see neither will they care about 'Federal (macro) Projects'. A farmer who needs a rice mill, an oil press or a solar borehole to create his own wealth will rather side with his representatives on this matter than on a rail line which are for 'town' people and foreigners.

Much as the proposed rail line is critical in opening up the eastern flank of Nigeria to competitive trade, I see reason in those who ask why the the seaports and second Niger bridge are not prioritised. It appears we have a traditional people versus government confrontation at play here where the people want one thing and the government wants another.

One thing we are yet to grasp and understand. Democracy is all about the people. In advanced democracies the people are engaged to partner with government. Look at the way the HS2 has been hotly debated in the UK for several years now before it has finally taken off. How many debates have we had on the best way of developing the eastern flank of Nigeria by this government and others. If people are saying roads and seaports and airports and you are saying rail then your aim may be ultimately defeated if your will prevails. This democracy thing is new in Nigeria but we have to start getting the fundamentals right.

pchukwudi:


TYPICAL

Zombie, NASS is not the prensinedncy's nanny or babysitter to be spoonfeeding it on things as basic as presenting a working budget and liasing effectively with the lawmakers.

Hell, NASS is not answerable to the presidency.

And if you have any atom of ability to comprehend what illegality means, you'd know that the session Amaechi had with the committee on that rail project was null and void on arrival due to the fact that it was ILLEGAL. Thus there was no basis for notification, discussion or anything. You simply stike out an illegal activity (which is what NASS rightly did).

Dumb, illegal acactivity is non-negotiable. Sorry.

What your god and his mediocre handlers needed to do was to get a supplemetary budget proposal ready ASAP so PMB could OFFICIALLY get it accross to NASS. There was absolutely no need for the whole mass media manipulation to which you have obviously fallen.

Sorry this is final on this stuff with you. I won't waste my finger-punch anymore in a futile attempt to get a zombie to be a lille bit reasonable for once.

dechriscool:
The current national assembly is dominated by Apc and the government at the centre is an Apc government.Starting from the submittion of the budget down to the consent of the president,the whole thing has being filled with confusion.This budget has gone down in history has the most talked and controversial budget with incompetence,cluelessness and ineptitude displayed.
This same budget got missing for God knows why and all the abnormalities were not still corrected.When it was facing defence by various ministries,it was grossly padded.Now some portion of the budget was deleted and someone when defending the budget before the General house did not discovered the problem but subsequently submitted the discovered problem to the transport committee for approval.God how did we find ourselves in this mess?
The controversy is on going,no body wants to take responsibility for their short comings.The gullibles are buying in to the calculated confusion created by the budget.Forgetting the legislature is supposed to serve as a check to the executives not a rubber stamp assembly.The national assembly members are being targeted to pitch themselves against each other.Some citizens are perceiving the assembly members as the true enemies of the state.The executives are being absolved of their incompentence in preparing and defending a simple budget.The ripples effect of all this saga is hunger in the land,hardship,inflaction,no light,no fuel and the General sufferings of the populace.The insensitivity of the president to the plea of the people is more annoying
Apc was a bad choice and their Incompetence,directionless,confusion Laden executives stings.

dechriscool:
The current national assembly is dominated by Apc and the government at the centre is an Apc government.Starting from the submittion of the budget down to the consent of the president,the whole thing has being filled with confusion.This budget has gone down in history has the most talked and controversial budget with incompetence,cluelessness and ineptitude displayed.
This same budget got missing for God knows why and all the abnormalities were not still corrected.When it was facing defence by various ministries,it was grossly padded.Now some portion of the budget was deleted and someone when defending the budget before the General house did not discovered the problem but subsequently submitted the discovered problem to the transport committee for approval.God how did we find ourselves in this mess?
The controversy is on going,no body wants to take responsibility for their short comings.The gullibles are buying in to the calculated confusion created by the budget.Forgetting the legislature is supposed to serve as a check to the executives not a rubber stamp assembly.The national assembly members are being targeted to pitch themselves against each other.Some citizens are perceiving the assembly members as the true enemies of the state.The executives are being absolved of their incompentence in preparing and defending a simple budget.The ripples effect of all this saga is hunger in the land,hardship,inflaction,no light,no fuel and the General sufferings of the populace.The insensitivity of the president to the plea of the people is more annoying
Apc was a bad choice and their Incompetence,directionless,confusion Laden executives stings.