yang:
This is the job of the Northern Parasites

Steal Money from the Oil Producing Land and go to use it to build the North.

You people have finished building Abuja abi? Its now time to build Bebeji

When are we dividing this zoo . . .This Theft must stop

But you have representatives there na, that could not comprehend that "stealing" was taking place at their detriment and did not talk. We have consistently asked what was your SE and SS senators doing where Jibrin wanted to get away with this daylight robbery?

Some shouting it South East,South south but it appears that every senator of the federal republic of Nigeria benefited.

yarimo:
Kudos to him, what else are other lawmakers doing to improve there people.

kudos my yansh, that guy succeeded in allocating that money to himself in d name of constituency project.kudos ko thumbs down ni.

I swear I've given up on dis budget...

yarimo:
Kudos to him, what else are other lawmakers doing to improve there people.

kudos my yansh, that guy succeeded in allocating that money to himself in d name of constituency project.kudos ko thumbs down ni. abeg take ya time o

GreatSE:


NOO, It sucks to be a Yoruba Man...... when will you ppl stop stabbing your fellow Southerner at the back..... you ppl voted for change not knowing Northerners voted for power, the only reason you are crying about that railway is because it will benefit the SW more than SS and SE...if not you ppl would have called Amaechi a thief.

You please STFU, aren't you ashamed that funds meant for the south is being siphoned to the north and you have southern law makers all keeping quiet, if not for the hate ingrained in you and your type, what makes you feel the SW will benefit more from the proposed rail line. Better remove hate before it hurts you more, it's your type that'll cry marginalization tomorrow. Mind you, I'm Igbo living in the SE.

What is wrong with all this APC legislooters cum fraudster sef ?

I repeat again:

APC, Party of professional fraudsters and career rogues. All can now see that this party is not ready for governance and btw. nothing has changed.


PDP = APC. Finito!

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yang:
This is the job of the Northern Parasites

Steal Money from the Oil Producing Land and go to use it to build the North.

You people have finished building Abuja abi? Its now time to build Bebeji

When are we dividing this zoo . . .This Theft must stop

[/s]

And what is the job of Senators in the House if not to protect the interest of his people he is representing I may ask? Unlike SS/SE Senators who prefer to starve citizens in their respective constituencies just because of hatred for Buhari: see a reasonable statement from a reasonable senator who knows his job in the House is not about tweeting on line for nothing -

“It is true that there are projects allocated to my constituency just like other members did. Just because I’m the chairman of the appropriation committee, my constituents should not get projects? Are my constituents not Nigerians?


Continue blaming them, while the rail project which PMB wanted to execute in SE is excluded in the budget under the watchful eyes of SE Senators.

Ben Bruce openly denied the Budget had any Rail line mentioned for the South, meanwhile the same rail line was planned to cross his Village /Constituency, twitting away and planning lavish Birthday party as the wailers hailed him, the monies were cornered by more serious minded guys

seunmsg:
So far so good, Northern law makers have smuggled in so many project for their constituencies. Can we see the projects smuggled into the budget by southern law makers?

Revelations from this 2016 budget have really exposed the south to be a politically immature region. We all come online and engage in silly e-wars while northerners stay back and observe our silliness. Our elected law makers are even more sillier. Party sentiments and selfish political interest have so blinded their eyes that they couldn't see anything wrong in cancelling the Lagos-Calabar railway project and appropriating the funds meant for it to complete the Kano railway projects and build new roads and town halls in the north.

Lagos-Calabar rail line that was presented and defended by the transport minister was rejected because it wasn't part of the initial budget submitted by the president while new roads and town halls in the north that was never designed, presented or defended by any ministry was included and appropriated huge funds. Yet, southerners still come online to support the decision of the national assembly due to party sentiments. Seriously, it sucks to be a southerner.

Bros,

We need to cure many Nigerians of Idiocy. Many of them cannot even phantom the economic benefits of a rail line passing through their constituencies and villages.

@ the bolded, is not even an excuse. Do you know that some of the project not captured in the original documents, yet presented in the supplimentary list to the committees was captured in the budget?

The Oyo State lawmaker said that the argument of the appropriation committees that they could not accommodate the Calabar – Lagos rail project because it was not included in the budget presented by Buhari was not tenable because a supplementary provision was supplied.

He explained that a similar situation happened in the Committee of Solid Minerals when the rents on some of the ministry’s properties were omitted in the budget presented.

According to him, officials of the ministry were asked to re-present a supplementary budget of N5 million which was included by the committee and presented to the Appropriation Committee and was accommodated in the final document. http://linkis.com/thenationonlineng.net/9ktmH

Yet some SS & SE fools and idiotic Senators(Ben Bruce) held on to the arguement that it was not captured in the initial document

PUSH1:
construction and rehabilitation of the works centre, N100m;
construction of town hall, N100m;
block of classrooms, undisclosed;
rehabilitation of Sharada - Kwanar Dogara, N1.445bn;
solar street lights, N300m;
drainage, N20m;
rehabilitation of Gwarzo Kiru, Kwanar Maiyaki, N180m;
Kiru - Badaf road construction, N405m;
rehabilitation and construction of roads in Kiru/Bebeji, N150m, and
construction of pedestrian bridges, N200m.

In the ministry of water resources, there are eight projects, namely:
construction of earth dam, N1m;
construction of 10 hand-pump boreholes in Bagauda, N10m;
small irrigation schemes in Kiru, N100m;
construction of Bebeji earth dam, N270m;
construction of solar powered boreholes, N150m;
outstanding projects of 2014 in Kiru Bebeji, N100m and
provision of hand-pump boreholes and water scheme, N38.023m.

Only one person allocated this to his constituency and it was not even captured in the initial budget. I know that communities in the South do launching and levy themselves to build Town Halls while in the North it is the FG that does everything for them.

“It is a common thing during budget processes at the National Assembly. All chairmen and vice chairmen of committees are involved, especially popular committees. This has been the practice as such there is nothing new about this thing,”

There is another angle to this. If this has been going on as claimed, what stop the EFCC from conducting a forensic investigation into how budgets has been implemented from May 1999? This will be in view to unravel who inserted projects in the main Budgets and also benefited from the so called 'Constituency Projects' but were not executed. An investigation will reveal that monies allocated to these projects were definitely released but work not done to our collective detriment. Ofcourse the monies will be in the hands of those who inserted the projects in the main budgets and also benefited from the constituency projects. The reason we cannot account for the huge monies expended so far during our democratic experience. Thus making this very beautiful system of government to look unattractive to our people. The EFCC as one of our strategic institutions must do this as our president is not fighting to be a strong man but someone who want to see our institutions as strong as the constitution has empowered them to be. Conduct this investigation and it will surprise you how deep the rabbit hole goes....gradually the wastage maths is falling into place. God bless Nigeria, amen.

seunmsg:
So far so good, Northern law makers have smuggled in so many project for their constituencies. Can we see the projects smuggled into the budget by southern law makers?

Revelations from this 2016 budget have really exposed the south to be a politically immature region. We all come online and engage in silly e-wars while northerners stay back and observe our silliness. Our elected law makers are even more sillier. Party sentiments and selfish political interest have so blinded their eyes that they couldn't see anything wrong in cancelling the Lagos-Calabar railway project and appropriating the funds meant for it to complete the Kano railway projects and build new roads and town halls in the north.

Lagos-Calabar rail line that was presented and defended by the transport minister was rejected because it wasn't part of the initial budget submitted by the president while new roads and town halls in the north that was never designed, presented or defended by any ministry was included and appropriated huge funds. Yet, southerners still come online to support the decision of the national assembly due to party sentiments. Seriously, it sucks to be a southerner.

The southerners operates under divide to rule campaign. Meaning, if it benefiting you no need to change/influence the status quo.

GreatSE:


NOO, It sucks to be a Yoruba Man...... when will you ppl stop stabbing your fellow Southerner at the back..... you ppl voted for change not knowing Northerners voted for power, the only reason you are crying about that railway is because it will benefit the SW more than SS and SE...if not you ppl would have called Amaechi a thief.

oga, sorry to say you are maaaaaaddddd. everything to you is about politics. what does the man in the street gain from the politicking by the politicians.

you be serious muuuumuuuu, the railway is to pass through 6 ss states, 3 sw states and 2 se state. now tell me ss will not benefit the most when the rail lineb will criss cross all the states in the region. who is supposed to be more aggrieved than the other, even though I believe they are all idiots that were sleeping while their smarter counterparts from the nory outsmart them.

Do you know the enormous amount of both skilled and unskilled labour that will get engaged in the ss, se, sw. and couple with the development this project will bring to the towns and villages the rail line will pass through.
maybe you prefer to lose all this just because of political inclination.

I tire for people like una o

l am currently doing my nysc in katsina and in one remote LG called ingawa, there is nothing you won't see in the north,I Was surprised when I saw a newly constructed MATCH VIEWING center. fitted with t.v. and satellite tv.Boldly written on the building was constructed by SURE P.

modath:

aieromon: :
Funds were discovered to be "floating" in the budget. Funds under the Ministry of Transportation were then moved to other ministries to construct roads without designs,salon kits,water pumps,grinding machines,tricycles and town halls. grin grin

Instead of the southern senators to come out with one voice and order their colleagues to review the budget, they came out to scream the rail project was not originally in the budget.

I hope their eyes open on time to see the foolishness in cutting their nose to spite their face.

I doff my hat for Goje and Jubrin.

I'm raising left yansh for dem join!

They are both northerners (aberration & unfair), and they think of themselves as bros first before budget enter.

They know that the "crazies" from the south put party politics before regional development so they did what they gat to do...... All man for hinsef.

Madam,

You never cease to amaze me

Me sef take my right nyash join...............

....and some idiotic southern bystanders hail those crazies and fight the "Northerner" trying to bring development to the south

In PEJ's parlance, CHAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HRich:
All this Hausa people just d use us any how.

Abdulmumin Jibrin Hausa

Dasuki Hausa

At the end they will Blame Jona.

Bros,

they have been "raping" us anyhow since the days of GEJ and b4

How David Mark doubled National Assembly’s budget and enthroned secrecy
July 18, 2015Bassey Udo
Senate president, David Mark and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu
Senate president, David Mark and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu
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By the time the curtain fell on the 7th session of Nigeria’s National Assembly in June, one of the most prominent characters of that era, who retreated backstage as a member of the 8th session (after his party became a minority), is former Senate President, David Mark.
Mr. Mark, a retired army general, would be remembered for his ignoble role in deepening and institutionalising the culture of secrecy at Nigeria’s federal legislative body.
In 2003, total National Assembly budget was about N23.347 billion.
The next year, the figure rose to about N32.229 billion (2004) and then N55.422 billion in 2005.
Although the figure dropped to N39.810 billion in 2006, the allocations have remained on the upswing ever after.
Immediately Mr. Mark became Senate President in 2007, the National Assembly’s budget rose from N66.488 billion to a shocking N104.825 billion in 2008, before dropping marginally to N96.052 billion in 2009.
By 2010, while he was still in charge, the allocation had a geometric jump, skyrocketing to unprecedented levels to a peak of about N154.2 billion.
With the Nigerian public increasingly scrutinizing the spiraling annual allocations to the National Assembly, questions about why the lawmakers got so much, amid rising overheads in the national budget, became inevitable.
Foramfera
To block Nigerians from knowing details of how the National Assembly’s jumbo allocations are spent, and how much lawmaker’s earn in allowances, Mr. Mark’s leadership wrapped up the federal legislator’s finances in utmost secrecy.
In one master stroke of legislative brinkmanship, the National Assembly budget, hitherto open to public scrutiny, like those of all ministries, departments and agencies, suddenly became secret.
Details of the allocation were never made known, and Mr. Mark and his team resisted all efforts to pry it open.
By 2010, the National Assembly legislated to make itself member of an exclusive club of agencies whose budget details are never disclosed but whose finances are deducted en-bloc (first-line charge) via statutory transfers.
This group includes the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the National Judicial Council (NJC), the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Public Complaints Commission (PCC).
Agencies in this group receive their annual budgetary allocations in bulk without providing breakdown of expenditure details.
Under Mr. Mark’s leadership, details of the National Assembly’s N150 billion allocations remained secret, despite public outcry against it.
For the first time in several years, the federal lawmakers agreed to cut their jumbo allocation by 23.3 percent to N115 billion in 2015.
Yet, details of how the fund would be spent remained secret.
Disturbed by the trend, the Lead Director, Centre for Social Justice (CENSOJ), Eze Onyekpere, citing the Freedom of Information Act and Section 48 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, demanded budgetary and expenditure details from both the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Finance.
When Mr. Mark failed to grant the request, Mr. Onyekpere went to court.
After several adjournments, the court, on February 25, 2014, ordered the Minister of Finance to oblige the civil society group with details of all statutory transfers.
But Mr. Mark and the finance ministry ignored the order.
The closest anyone got to knowing how lawmakers spend Nigeria’s hard-earned money was the indication given by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi.


Mr. Sanusi had said expenses by the National Assembly accounted for about 25 percent of the total overhead cost by the federal government.
Apart from allocations for salaries and allowances, Mr. Sanusi said all other items packed under different sub-heads in the appropriation bill consist mainly of expenses on the personal benefits of lawmakers.
According to the former CBN boss, the National Assembly under Mr. Mark perfected a curious system of “retiring” the huge allocation.
“There is an entire structure within the National Assembly whose job is to prepare different receipts and vouchers to cover every item in the budget,” Mr. Sanusi had said.
A review of the details of the National Assembly budget for 2009 highlights some items the lawmakers spend their huge annual budget on.
Out of a total appropriation of N106.64 billion for that year, recurrent expenditure was N101.39 billion, or 95 percent, allowing just N5.25 billion for capital projects.
Under the recurrent, overheads accounted for N87.69 billion, or 86.48 percent, with personnel cost allocated N13.69 billion, or 13.52 percent.
Apart from payment of salaries and other fringe benefits, which takes an average of about N10 billion, Mr. Sanusi said the bulk of the allocations were shared among members according to pre-agreed formula after allocations for such items as constituency projects, budget tracking, software, hardware, implementation and monitoring; NASS equipment; judgment debt; renovation projects; general goods and non-personal services; general travels and transport (local and international) as well as general training.
Other provisions include general utilities; general materials and supplies; general maintenance services; security vote, consultancy and professional services; insurance premium charges; fuel and lubricants; contingency; NASS programmed activities, NASS law magazine; media and Public Relations as well as miscellaneous expenses.
Mr. Mark stepped down from the leadership of the National Assembly in June. He would most likely be remembered more for the lack of accountability under his watch

GreatSE:


NOO, It sucks to be a Yoruba Man...... when will you ppl stop stabbing your fellow Southerner at the back..... you ppl voted for change not knowing Northerners voted for power, the only reason you are crying about that railway is because it will benefit the SW more than SS and SE...if not you ppl would have called Amaechi a thief.

How does the Calabar railway line benefits the West than the SS/SE?

Yyeske:

GreatSE: :


NOO, It sucks to be a Yoruba Man...... when will you ppl stop stabbing your fellow Southerner at the back..... you ppl voted for change not knowing Northerners voted for power, the only reason you are crying about that railway is because it will benefit the SW more than SS and SE...if not you ppl would have called Amaechi a thief. undecided

You please STFU, aren't you ashamed that funds meant for the south is being siphoned to the north and you have southern law makers all keeping quiet, if not for the hate ingrained in you and your type, what makes you feel the SW will benefit more from the proposed rail line. Better remove hate before it hurts you more, it's your type that'll cry marginalization tomorrow. Mind you, I'm Igbo living in the SE.

Bros,

I wonder how it feels when a fellow Nigerian thinks like GreatSE. The Yorubas has rail lines traversing Lagos - Ogun - OYo - Osun - Kwara......., the new LAG-KANO already accomodated in the budget covers more town in the SW, yet Tunji Ogundamisi had called out Remi Tinubu and other SW senators for allowing the robbery of Jubrin's budget to slip by them. Unfortunately some of our folks do not understand where to draw the line when it comes to how commonwealth is to be shared

seunmsg:
So far so good, Northern law makers have smuggled in so many project for their constituencies. Can we see the projects smuggled into the budget by southern law makers?

Revelations from this 2016 budget have really exposed the south to be a politically immature region. We all come online and engage in silly e-wars while northerners stay back and observe our silliness. Our elected law makers are even more sillier. Party sentiments and selfish political interest have so blinded their eyes that they couldn't see anything wrong in cancelling the Lagos-Calabar railway project and appropriating the funds meant for it to complete the Kano railway projects and build new roads and town halls in the north.

Lagos-Calabar rail line that was presented and defended by the transport minister was rejected because it wasn't part of the initial budget submitted by the president while new roads and town halls in the north that was never designed, presented or defended by any ministry was included and appropriated huge funds. Yet, southerners still come online to support the decision of the national assembly due to party sentiments. Seriously, it sucks to be a southerner.

Thank you.

Guyman02:
The Naivete of Southern Senators and Honourables has been exposed by the North. Now they are seeing how politics is being played; I will not blame Sen Ben Bruce and Akpabio because they are still greenhorns in the Senate but now I am sure their eyes don open.



The Southern Senators are too shocked to speak, they thought they could TRUST their Northern counterparts; the SW has been keeping quiet also as the Lagos - Calabar project benefits them also.
Imagine a Honourable putting N4.9b into the budget for his constituency and Ben Murray Bruce could not add anything for Bayelsa and Aba where he is asking to buy Made in Naija.

You're are leaving the substance and chasing the shadows. Yes I blame the SW Senators (despite the fact that LAG_KANO has been accomodated in the budget, which covers the SW to a large extent), but exonerating Ben Bruce and Akpabio because they are supposedly "greenhorns" is not only ridiculous, but self serving and tantamount to living in denial. How many years will it take them before they know how they are supposed to their jobs

Nbote:
I swear I've given up on dis budget...

Do we feel any budget impact for years, this are d reason.

Firefire:
What is wrong with all this APC legislooters cum fraudster sef ?

I repeat again:

APC, Party of professional fraudsters and career rogues. All can now see that this party is not ready for governance and btw. nothing has changed.


PDP = APC. Finito!

This as been the system for years, Nigeria don't feel the impact of the budget, but things Will change gradually.

APC Legislators & the budget of yams!
Is it by force to eat yam in Nigeria? What will be the fate of Nigerian politicians if there are no more yams??

...


....



.....

Na Death sentence be that!

Let say here dat every FG project serves Nigerians, whether southerner or northerner. Now, d Lagos-Calabar rail project if included in d budget, wud av been one of the best memories of NIGERIANS towards the NASS. Now, to us Nigerians- the wud av been beneficiary, lets give d NASS an e-Protest to cause a reversal of their action while rebuking the southern NASS members. #BRINGBACKOURLAGOS-CALABARRAILPROJECT@NASS

IdomaLikita:
Underestimate a Northerner at your own risk.

All of a sudden, Murray-Bruce has gone mute. Ewu.
While he was singing praises for Innoson and Made-in-Aba shoes, his Northern compatriots were closely scrutinising the budget..now that the dice have been cast, which pat of the budget goes into funding the manufacturing sector where innoson and Aba peeps belong?

Please help me ask him that question again.
Mr common sense with no sense.

2n2k:


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/n-assembly-inserted-n40bn-road-projects-in-2016-budget/142248.html

So it is now the responsibility of the federal government to build Town Hall in some people's village? Impunity in Nigeria has no limit.

My dear, it's so appalling.

AdamsBashforth:



Do not cry more than the bereaved.

You don't even know the meaning of what you typed.

which project in rivers state or ubima did ameachi smuggle into the budget

mumu lizard of ubima


ben bruce which project did u smuggle into the budget for bayelsa state.

the northerners dont make noise on tweeter they prefer to smuggle or kill to have they way

seunmsg:
So far so good, Northern law makers have smuggled in so many project for their constituencies. Can we see the projects smuggled into the budget by southern law makers?

Revelations from this 2016 budget have really exposed the south to be a politically immature region. We all come online and engage in silly e-wars while northerners stay back and observe our silliness. Our elected law makers are even more sillier. Party sentiments and selfish political interest have so blinded their eyes that they couldn't see anything wrong in cancelling the Lagos-Calabar railway project and appropriating the funds meant for it to complete the Kano railway projects and build new roads and town halls in the north.

Lagos-Calabar rail line that was presented and defended by the transport minister was rejected because it wasn't part of the initial budget submitted by the president while new roads and town halls in the north that was never designed, presented or defended by any ministry was included and appropriated huge funds. Yet, southerners still come online to support the decision of the national assembly due to party sentiments. Seriously, it sucks to be a southerner.

Excellent write up!

ADDENDUM:

The Legislators do not have the constitutional powers to initiate projects.The power given to them is that of approving(or disapproving) and converting the appropriation bill(the budget prepared by the executive) into an appropriation act .

The best a legislator could do is to lobby the executives to include projects that would affect his constituency.

The legislators cannot claim EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATION RIGHTS!

The president ,governors,local govt. executives and other elected officials are also representatives of their people,with the president representing every body.

The legislative representation of the people as been limited by the constitution to strictly in the areas of law making.The elected state and local government executives(not legislators) are also representing their people in the areas of administration,which include project execution.

It is criminal and unconstitutional for a legislator to initiate and execute constituency projects.


That is the whole essence of separation of powers.If a legislator cannot lobby the executive for projects,he should resign to contest for president,governor or local government chairman,if constituency projects is his concern.

lawydewy:
The southern honourables and senetors where there just to hate and frustrate PMB and Ameachi.


Why wouldn't a Northern honourables lobby for projects instead of thinking past election as if they are dead.

No business as usual!!! No sharing formula!!!!!

No more laziness!!!! No more chop I chop!!!!

Work for what you will eat!!!!I

It depends on how ones brain works. Northern senators attract project and development to their constituency to remain relevant. It doesn't matter if they belong to the ruling party or not. The Southern senators discourage projects to show the government in power is not good, so they can have who to blame. i.e. Amaechi did nothing for them.

Unless the people are mumu raise to power infinity, I cannot understand why it works for the Southern senators. Good a thing, this shit has hit the fan. I wan see how them go hide now.