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According to one of my colleagues words let them deliver first. Imagine how far we would have developed if the past administrations has taken advantage of this opportunity!!!

The people to be held responsible for this shame and incompetence should be the seat warmers senators from the SS region!!!

This is another arm of the PDP and wailers talking in disguise!!!

Saraki is a goner because is a looser. Hope he is not biting more than what he can chew. We are watching in 3D !!!!

God forbid. I hate clueless and corruption !!!

Fayose is just a common Bull D*g!!!!

Foolishness is when you scored less than 190 in jamb and still claimed you passed because somebody else stole another man's score to gain admission. I beleive this man is on high raw ogogoro and Jamaica weed!!!!

I pray God help us get this girls back. The government in returns need to act fast in recovering this girls and eventually I believe this will serve as a proof that girls are missing to some disgruntled wailing wailers! !!

Don't mind the telegraph news paper. It's seems they have started collecting brown envelop just like their Nigeria colleagues we are watching them in 3D ! !!

PMB should act and stop procrastinating abeg. I am beginning to feel uncomfortable with this government and baseless pronouncement. Anybody that does anything against the development of this nation should be regarded as a terrorist and should be arrested without any pronouncements.

Our leaders have milking us die since 1890 DC. Imagine how much 1 dollar will be to 1 Naira!!!

Na toy !!!

slyIsaac:
Looks like a toy...

I said it in my earlier comment that this SS Senators are selfish and worthless to their region. Imagine playing politics with something that would be of benefits to their region. Where is the self acclaimed common sense senator in all this mess!!!

Well done Sir. Sai BABA!!!

This men think we can be fooled or cowed by their ignorance. Abeg nothing happen and heaven will never fall if Saraki is removed. Pa Chukwudi will concor to it!!!

Good things are finally coming out of Nigeria!!!

Spot on my brother, even Burutai messed the Sheit up when they threatened the army. Thumps up to our gallant army !!!

greenpasture:
Puts a lie to those claiming that the NA has ethnic-based armies. Truth is any of these commanders will mow down people from their own village if they are discovered to be violent enemies of the FRN. Ethnic champions be warned. Their oath is not to tribe.

kikkikikiki!!

ClassCaptain:
Landlady and landlord run comot their own house ??

CONGRATS mr and mrs shakiru

you are now the new owner of the whole house

This is domestic abuse of the highest order. the man should be thrown into a dongeon and the key thrown into the atlantic ocean!!!

Mammi water spirit day i guess !!!!

nevi12:
Wat is dis one celebrating abeg

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BeardedMeat:
Oh pls close that thing! Go and read what the constitution says aboutthe matter under review and then come back to mock the person you quoted.

Ok

Good Eko onibaje! !!

Ipod youth never seize to amaze me. Even the topic does not make any sense at all

DonXavi:
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I wonder. This is just a publicity stunt!!!

adefunke62:
how is ds one news

Baba should dk something fast before things get out of hands

Okokobiokoooooo. God punish this our rulers!!!

Good thank God!!!

Spot on Sir!!!

americanigga:
I here by call on all Bayelsa state Indigens, residents, Ipobs and Biafran hopeful, both in and ouside the country to openly reject this good will from High chief, (Rit.) Hon Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi to construct a railway line in Otuoke Bayelsa. Because this will be a slap on the face of former president Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan the suposed hero of the Igbo race, who aparently did not do anything in the whole of Bayelsa let alone Otuoke. This looming embarrassment must be averted.

What the hero could not do in six years, the man that has been labeld as a betrayer is about to do it in one year. What will people say?

On point Bro!!!

TonyeBarcanista:
Ladies and gentlemen, and patriotic Nigerians please permit me to air my view on this issue of alleged omission of Lagos-Calabar rail line from the 2016 Appropriation bill(Budget) by members of the legislative arrm of government.
This issue has been trending across media space including Facebook, Twitter, Nairaland, Palmchat, etc

We all agree that since the budget was proposed by the president and submitted to the National Assembly, there has been one controversy or the other. The latest of the controversy being the omission of Lagos-Calabar rail line, which my piece is to dwell on.

THE ISSUE
When President Buhari presented his budget bwfore the National Assembly, there was no provision of Lagos-Calabar rail project but only Lagos-Kano rail project contained in it. The minister of transport, Hon Rotimi Amaechi during his budget defence tendered document for the Lagos-Calabar rail project to be captured in the 2016 budget before the Senate Committee on Land Transport (as confirmed by Sen Gbenga Ashafa), and to be funded with a floating N56billion. While the Senate Committee on Land Transport accepted the adjustment, and recommended same to the Appropriation counterpart, the project was however rejected by the Appropriation Committees of both the House and the Senate, as well as the whole National Assembly.

Without prejudice, I believe it is appropriate to give knocks and commendation to those worthy of it.

WORTHY OF KNOCKS
President Muhammadu Buhari
Firstly, it is inappropriate and amount to nullity for a minister to propose extraneous budget outside what has been submitted to the NASS. If President Buhari really wanted the project, all he had to do was to request for withdrawal of the budget before the House and submit an amended budget that would capture the project. If Buhari was sincere, he wouldn't have just captured a project that connects Lagos to Kano by rail without considering that of Lagos-Calabar that is of more economic benefit. Sincerely, Buhari wasn't really interested in the said project perhaps because it wasn't in the North.

Senate And House Committees on Appropriation:
Is it not hypocrisy that members of the Senate Committee led by Sen Danjuma Goje(Gombe state) and Hon Abdulmumin Jubrin(Kano) of the Senate and Reps respectively would see everything wrong in allocating a floating N56billion towards a rail project that would open up Lagos-Calabar, but saw nothing wrong in reallocating the said money into not-so-important projects? When did thd Appropriation Committee assume power to decide new projects for the executive? It is even more shameful that the vice Chairman of Senate committee on appropriation, Sunny Ogbuoji is a southerner from Ebonyi state. I tried to get the names of all committee members of both committees but was unsuccessful. One question these Appropriation Committees members need to answer is "would they have cancelled the addition by Amaechi if the project to be added was Lagos-Kano rail project?"

The National Assembly:
For the fact that the Appropriation committee would empower themselves the privilege of re assigning funds for not-too-important projects from the floating N56billion, nothing stops them from reassigning those funds to Lagos-Calabar rail project. It is a shame that the Senate and the House would agree to such a budget appropriation. Would members of both Houses okay it if the project in question was Lagos-Kano rail? A big shame and an indictment on Southern delegation in the NASS especially those from the South-South and South West that are supposed to be the beneficiary.

WORTHY OF COMMENDATION
Hon Rotimi Amaechi:
We must commend Hon Rotimi Amaechi for his bold step to find ways to inject the Lagos-Calabar rail project into the budget and also seek way to fund it without going beyond his ministry's allocation. I am no fan of Rotimi Amaechi but he deserves credit and not knocks. Those calling for his resignation over this issue should hide their faces in shame.

Sen Gbenga Ashafa and Senate Land Transport Commitee:
Also worthy of commendation is Senator Ashafa and his team although it would have been more appropriate for Ashafa Committee to advice Amaechi of the nullity of his proposal to smuggle in a project in the eyes of the law.


The Way Forward:
It will amount to injustice for Mr President to append his signature into that thrash paper called Budget of 2016. The proper thing to do now is for the President to veto the budget and submit a new document or amendment document to capture the Lagos-Calabar rail project. This blame game is diversionary and we will not be distracted by the antics of enemies of the South and the country as a whole.




May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria...

Hmmmm, Pa Chukwudi the Abobaku's of Saraki will stop at nothing to defend his pay slave master. We are watching in 3D !!!!

chukwudi44:
if you have been reading posts before yours,you will not be typing this gibberish

Pa Chukwudi how market? Whether you like it or not if the president does not sign the law it's as useless as a toilet paper!!!

chukwudi44:
yeah Buhari boy!!! same way you defended your master's WAEC certificate forgery