₦airaland Forum

Goke7:
Don't deviate from the topic sir, why did the pdp administration refuse to save? Is PMB lying about the kleptomaniac activities of pdp?

If you don't have fuel, stay at home or buy black market, or ask your party pdp to give you some since they are the best according to you

obailala:
More than anything in the world, you need that sense you are offering me, even if it's just a little.

Please tell us how it is APCs fault that the PDP government couldn't save?.... No offence but this is the lamest accusation/blame game ever. How could people be so silly?

Leave all these your pointless rhetorics about Peter Obi saving money and what not. The money in question belonged to the states and FG, states collectively said to the FG, "give us our share while you can save your own share." FG's share was more than 50% (so that's quite significant), so please explain with a sensible logic how it is APC's fault that the FG squandered its own share. How is it also APC's fault that the PDP states (who as you claim did not want to take the money) also received their share and squandered it (save for Peter Obi of APGA then)?

obailala:
More than anything in the world, you need that sense you are offering me, even if it's just a little.

Please tell us how it is APCs fault that the PDP government couldn't save?.... No offence but this is the lamest accusation/blame game ever. How could people be so silly?

Leave all these your pointless rhetorics about Peter Obi saving money and what not. The money in question belonged to the states and FG, states collectively said to the FG, "give us our share while you can save your own share." FG's share was more than 50% (so that's quite significant), so please explain with a sensible logic how it is APC's fault that the FG squandered its own share. How is it also APC's fault that the PDP states (who as you claim did not want to take the money) also received their share and squandered it (save for Peter Obi of APGA then)?

obailala:
The money belonged to the FG and states, FG held the funds and it was evident that the FG was deeping its hands into the funds hence the states asked that the FG should hand over their own portion. Now there are 2 points which deflate the buffoonery of this 'blame game' by PDP:

The FG cannot touch a kobo of Federally collectible revenue until it receives its share, Pls acquaint yourself with knowledge

1. There were far more PDP governors involved in this clamour than the opposition governors at the time. But the PDP now says APC governors were responsible. How convenient!

stop making a mess of yourself, it has to be a unanimous decision from all the govs because the FG cannot save only money for PDP govs cos the monies saved will be spent using federal character to the detriment of participating states, so even if only one state rejects the idea it was just sufficient to jettison it, and may i remind you that the PDP govs you are referring to are now the bedrock of the APC govt?

2. The FG still retained well more than 50% of the ECA funds as its share. Can you kindly tell us why that portion wasn't saved?... Was it also APC influence?

Simple it was used in servicing the budget, but pls can you tell us why all the APC govs did not save? infact why are the APC states are the most indebted? cos i know of a an anambra state led by Peter Obi that handed over 20bn naira in savings to its successor and a debt-free state even when it is adjudged to be one of the best performing govt with regards to infrastucture.

you APC minions by now should understand that its always gonna be hard defending a bad product cos the harder you try the more stupid you'll sound. buhari is a bad product and will always be a bad market since 1983

obailala:
As at the time the governors asked for their share of the ECA funds, how many of those governors were opposition?.... Even when you count out the PDP governors who later switched to APC, there were still over 20 PDP governors in the governors' forum now some clowns who think they are talking to kids is saying APC prevented PDP from saving?... WOnders shall never cease!

By the way, the entire 36 states and 774 LGAs only took 45% of the entire ECA funds, so please kindly tell us why the FG did not save its own 55% share amounting to over $11bn?.... Maybe the APC governors also used a strong juju spell to charm the PDP FG into squandering the savings right?... Meanwhile this squander happened in 2010/2011 while APC was formed in 2013. Strong yeye dey smell!

The bunch of PDP buffoons should understand that not all Nigerians are as silly as some of their brainless followers.

OlujobaSamuel:
what happens to constant reduction of the ECA at every NEC meetings?
where is the billions deducted from SWF account for 2nd Niger bridge or where is the bridge?
Where is FG 52% portion of the fund?
tell me one reason why state should not have taken the fg to court to demand for their money?

modath:
I did, looks like shooting oneself in the legs i know, but read the post i quoted well & you'd understand my drift...... Not everything is to be taken at face value..



I'd ignore the tantrums & weak clap back attempt....

If you are wise, you'd realise that States & LG's share is less than 50%, what did the past administration do with theirs, Nigerian leaders know when to flout/ bend the Law & when to pretend to be Law abiding....

Save your weak attempt to sell us Jona as being a rule of law proponent or disciple... Ayo Salami's case is a mere click away...


ECA is actually unconstitional , we all knew that but Bros still operated it!!

Nicur:
hahahahaha zombies are terrible!!! you see wetin I dey tell you, the Zombies called your explanation lame excuses hahahahahaha Chai!!!

modath:
Really ?;, then explain this?


http://www.nigerianmuse.com/important_documents/?u=Obasanjo_lawless_unconstitutional_over_LG_funds.htm

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/178006-how-obasanjo-dealt-with-me-reshaped-my-life-tinubu.html

Goke7:
Lame excuses

obailala:

Didn't know APC was in charge of the treasury during the PDP locust years.

*Buhari doesn’t need to visit crisis area – Presidency
*Peace is returning – Council boss By Levinus Nwabughiogu,
Peter Duru and Abiodun Alade
The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mrs. Angele Dikongue Atangana, says the attacks in Agatu local government area of Benue State by suspected militia left the area in total ruin.
Atangana, led on the tour of the area by Ezekiel Adaji, the Deputy Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Refugees and North East Development Initiative, also described the damage as unimaginable.

The UN representative, who stated that the plight of Agatu people deserved national and international attention, stressed that it would be difficult for the affected people to rebuild their communities without external help.

“In my 20 years of working as a humanitarian, I have never seen such a level of destruction. If steps are not taken, the crisis can affect the country as a whole,” she said.

She noted that the damage to Agatu was similar to what was happening in the North-East, and assured that her agency would aid in the rehabilitation of the displaced persons.

Addressing the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, at the Ugbokpo camp, Atangana disclosed that the UN body had donated non-food items worth over N20 million to the IDPs, stating that the items were with the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, in Makurdi.

Meanwhile, the Presidency has dismissed the calls for President Muhammadu Buhari to visit Agatu, saying he needed not to be physically present to do his job.

The President spoke through the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, during a session with Osasu Igbinedion on “The Osasu Show,” aired on the African Independent Television, AIT.

In any case, Adesina reminded Nigerians that the Presidency had issued a statement on Agatu killings detailing the position of Buhari.

Also, yesterday, the Chairman of Agatu Local Government Area, Mr Joseph Ngbede, claimed that normalcy had returned to the area.

Ngbede, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard on phone, said residents were returning home.

“I don’t stay in Makurdi. I am in Agatu. I can say there are no more attacks and the people are returning home,” he said.

He said that, although the suspected Fulani attackers come from neighbouring Nasarawa State, he is not aware of the owner of the cows.

Last week, a meeting of Benue socio-cultural groups and religious leaders had flayed Buhari, army, and police chiefs, as well as Governor Samuel Ortom for failing to visit Agatu and other besieged Benue communities after the attacks.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/agatu-total-ruin-un/

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said he did not call former President Goodluck Jonathan to brief him after Boko Haram abducted over 200 school girls from Chibok, because he knew that security agencies must have briefed the president of the development the day it happened.

Mr. Shettima said as president, Mr. Jonathan had wide resources to keep him abreast of serious national security issues on a daily basis.

Mr. Shettima was responding to an inquiry from PREMIUM TIMES which sought to determine why the governor waited for almost three weeks expecting the president to reach out to him over a major incident that happened in his domain.

The governor had said recently that Mr. Jonathan took 19 days to telephone him to ask about the abduction.

He made the remark while receiving former President Olusegun Obasanjo whom he praised as having a better record of contacting governors of crisis- prone states on a daily basis.

“In our own case, Your Excellency, after the Chibok abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in April, 2014, it took 19 days for me to receive a call from the Presidency,” Mr. Shettima said to Mr. Obasanjo.
Analysts have accused the governor of not also taking the security of his state serious enough to have to wait for the president to call, and not contact him immediately.

In his response to PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday, Mr. Shettima, who is currently attending the second term inauguration of President Mahamadou Issoufou in Niger Republic, said he immediately launched efforts to rescue the girls, and became too busy to reach out to the president.

He said he knew the president must have been made aware already since there was a state of emergency already in place in the state long before the kidnap.
Mr. Shettima spoke through his Special Adviser on Communication, Isa Gusau, who assured us his comments were the governor’s position.

Mr. Gusau said he “had it on good authority that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was well briefed by security agencies soon after the abduction and this is to be expected given the magnitude and for the fact that as at that time, Borno was under a State of Emergency as declared by the president, which made him directly in charge of security issues in Borno and happenings there”.

“So, ‎when the Chibok abduction took place on April 14, 2014, Governor Kashim Shettima who is Chairman of the State Security Councils remained within Borno State as he was expected to do, to build public confidence and presided over series of daily security council meetings held at the Government House in Maiduguri to analyze the situation and developments, to identify strategies and to coordinate deployment of security responses to containing the emergency,” he said.

Mr. Shettima also said that the normal practice over the years in Nigeria was that the president would be the one to call a state governor to find out how he could help if there was an emergency situation.
“The practice in Nigeria is that when emergency security situations happen in any of the 36 States, the president does not rely on governors for security briefings, he relies on daily situation report and also he invites service chiefs and heads of key intelligence establishments like the Department of State Security Services and National Intelligence Agency as well, for information that may include what a governor may not even be in position to know because there are certain classified information that only the president is told even when they affect a particular state whose governor is kept in the dark.

“What happens in our unwritten protocol in Nigeria is that, in event of major security problems, it is the president that summons a governor or calls him on phone or directs the Vice President to call on his behalf for sympathy, seek additional information where necessary and to assure or discuss aspects that require Federal intervention. Governors don’t rush to the Villa during emergencies, they remain in their respective States to provide leadership because their presence means so much in managing situations.”
Mr. Shettima said Mr. Jonathan could not have feigned ignorance of the development because he had made several media interviews and offered a reward of ₦50 million for accurate information about the whereabouts of the girls.

“After a security meeting on April 16, 2014, Governor Kashim Shettima had addressed the Press same day, (April 16, 2014) which was two days after the Chibok incident during which he announced a N50million reward on information that could lead to freeing the schoolgirls and this was widely reported by the media within and outside Nigeria. So, there was general public knowledge about the incident not to talk of the president knowing about it.

“The Governor simply concentrated on working with security agencies, the civilian JTF, hunters and local community leaders in Chibok on finding ways of freeing the schoolgirls. Till date, only Governor Kashim Shettima and his wife visited Chibok after that incident, no body went from the Federal level to meet the parents throughout the Jonathan era.”

On allegations that the he was complicit in the abduction of the girls because he ordered WAEC officials to proceed with the exams in defiance of all security warnings, Mr. Shettima dismissed the allegation as “malicious”.

“The issue of saying there were reports against holding WAEC in the Chibok School was just a propaganda orchestrated by actors under the Jonathan administration in order to shift blame on Borno State Government and if you cast your mind back, you would understand that the whole propaganda only began in May, 2014, when wife of President Barack Obama was shown participating in the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ global protest which made the Jonathan Presidency to come under criticism from the international community. The FG didn’t show any concern before May, 2014 whereas the abduction took place on April 14, 2014.

“To start with ‎if it was true that the Government Secondary School, Chibok, was considered unsafe to the point that the Borno State Government was warned against holding the exams there, why would parents of the school who live within the same “unsafe” Chibok, allow their children to be in that school at that time? If the Borno Government was reckless enough to care less of the safety of the gilrs what about parents of the girls? They also didn’t care or what?

“Truth is that Chibok was one of the places that had no known security threats as at the time the abduction took place. Chibok had virtually no record of attacks before that incident. No one anticipated that attack just like no Nigerian could have anticipated attacks on the secured Police Headquarters in Abuja by the Boko Haram in 2012. ‎
“Before Belgium was attacked recently, it wasn’t among areas in Europe vulnerable to terrorist attacks. As events have shown, terrorists seem to target areas less expected of them to attack than places considered vulnerable. If GSS Chibok was marked as unsafe, the WAEC wouldn’t have sent their officials there to conduct the exams neither would parents have lived in Chibok. Everyone would have fled. We all know that WAEC had officials conducting exams in Chibok while residents didn’t flee the Communities. We have reasons to believe that the Boko Haram targeted Chibok because it was one of the places they were not expected to attack given records of their presence and attacks across Borno State.”

Mr. Shettima, however, acknowledged that a security alert did go out prior to the incident, but quickly added that it was ambiguous.

“It is however true that there were security concerns raised by the WAEC on the need for security to be provided in all examination centres without any emphasis on GSS, Chibok.

“In a letter addressed to the late Deputy Governor of Borno State, Zannah Umar Mustapha, who was presiding over the matter, with reference number MD/ZO/OA/10/203, dated March 19, 2014, signed by F.M Gaiya, zonal coordinator, the WAEC had raised issues of security which it did by requesting the Borno Government to provide security in all the centres in Maiduguri, Biu, Askira, Lassa and Chibok, which the Borno State Government promptly acted upon by writing a letter to the Borno State Commissioner of Police request adequate security in all examination centres (as the attachment here would show). The WAEC was never specific on Chibok because there was no fears of imminent attack on Chibok and if there was, WAEC wouldn’t have contemplated the exam there at least for safety of its own staff.
“The Borno State Government had in response, written a letter ‎dated March 20, 2014, with reference number SEC/282/GH/T.I/109, signed by the Chief Admin Officer, Special Services (Security) at the Government House in Maiduguri, M.M Gana, addressed to the then Borno State Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko requesting for security to be provided to all examination centres in Borno State, that include Chibok but also without any specific fears on imminent attack on Chibok.

“A Presidential Fact-finding committee on the Chibok abduction which was set up by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan which had members including friends of President Jonathan and serving security officials had examined all documents and correspondences between the Borno Government and WAEC and I don’t think anyone doubts the sincerity of Governor Kashim Shettima in all that happened.

“It is unfortunate that the abduction took place ‎and so was the politics that was brought into it. Governor Shettima recollected that matter because he was dealing with President Olusegun Obasanjo whose voice has been consistent on the Chibok schoolgirls abduction.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed claims by the Nigerian delegation led by President Buhari that billions of dollars in loot by Nigerian politicians was stashed in the United States of America.

Buhari had solicited the support of the United States government to assist in the repatriation of all stolen Nigerian funds located within the American banking system.

“It will greatly help our country if you assist us to recover all our stolen funds which we can establish within your financial system,” Buhari told John Kerry.

However, John Kerry in his reply told President Buhari that it was unlikely that stolen Nigerian funds were in “billions of dollars” as the Nigerian government delegation had informed him. He said that America would be aware if that volume of amount was hidden in the country.

“It’s not easy to hide that amount of money and we are pretty good in tracing them,” the US Secretary of State said.

John Kerry’s statement sounds like “America will know” comments credited to former President Goodluck Jonathan who addressed the allegations of the theft of about 20 billion dollars under his administration by the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido.

“If Sanusi hadn’t been suspended he would have come up with a different figure… If anyone steals $50 billion or $20 billion anywhere America will know, they will tell you where it is; it is their money,” Jonathan said.

Kerry assured Buhari, adding that the relevant US government officials will meet with the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, to discuss further cooperation in that regard.

Kerry also applauded the Buhari administration’s success in rolling back the Boko Haram insurgency, saying that the US would continue to give Nigeria all the possible support to ensure that the terror sect is finally eliminated as a threat to national and regional security.

Buhari and Kerry met on the sidelines of the ongoing Nuclear Security Summit in Washington D.C..

Before the meeting between Buhari and Kerry, the US-Nigeria Bi-National Commission (BNC) meeting opened in Washington DC on Wednesday, with a pledge of more than $600 million investments by the US in Nigeria this year. Kerry announced this during the opening session of the meeting.

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has blamed former president Goodluck Jonathan’s government for the current enduring fuel crisis plaguing the nation. He said that the former government made inadequate preparations for subsidy payments and owed oil marketers huge debts. Lai remarked that this has caused the marketers to stop importing products which he said was responsible for the scarcity.

When asked by State House Correspondents on the current fuel scarcity situation, the minister said; “What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met on ground is such that we are paying for the sins of the last administration”.

“I am being very serious. You remember that about two weeks ago, we had to go to the National Assembly for a supplementary budget of N674 billion. Of that figure, N522billion was for arrears of fuel subsidy which was incurred as far back as August last year”.

“One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity was the inability of the last government to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy”. “We do face some other logistic problems but majorly, we are paying for the sins of the last administration”.

Asked what the solution the government was now proffering, the Minister said: “The first thing we have done now is to make sure that unlike before when the marketers used to import the major percentage of the fuel, NNPC has been involved in importation”. “This is because some of the marketers had stopped importing for a couple of months. If you see any fuel anywhere today, it is imported by the NNPC”.

“We also inherited the vandalisation of the pipelines which has made it impossible for us to even transport the fuel. In tanks today we have 14 days reserve and off tank we have 10 days reserve”.

“The issue is not non-availability of the product; it is the distribution because of pipelines that have been vandalised and the gridlock in Lagos”.

“It takes about five days for anybody to take fuel with tanker in Lagos. As at two days ago this matter has been resolved. The Mosinmi pipeline has been secured and it has led to the improvement in the distribution,” he said.

mideactive:
Wat happened2 Bamanga tukur's son case,wer
Is he now?it's very unfortunate,yar'dua could av made lots of difference.but do u expect Buhari 2 sack a minister dat's yet to start work.stop finding fault 4 now,support him @list 4 now.if he fails,we can all talk.u ppl think u'r tryin 2 drag him down,it's not only him u'l drag down.u'l also drag d country down wit him.anyway,I don't knw whr u belong.I don't knw if it's Nigeria or Biafra

vedaxcool:
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Defender of corruption spotted.

Ghost01:
What's this one saying? What exact novel message did Aribisala pass? He ended up making no meaning, as Sagay rightly pointed out.

mideactive:
U see urself,wen Obj was fightin corrupt ppl,u guys said he was fightin his enemies.now u'r ar twistin it again dat pmb is fightin opposition.wat do u guys realy want?asides frm obj,did any other pdp president fight corruption?pmb hasn't changed anything,he's still using d instrument on ground,is dat a bad thing?at list all d people indicted ar still in court,juts granted bail.those dat mean d case is over?if pmb neglects court orders n put 'em in jail,u'l call him a dictator.be it apc/pdp,criminals ar being expossed.n dey 'l sure av der date in court.even d in ppl ar not denyin,wat ar u defending?

vedaxcool:
Same fools who clapped will be chanting leaders of tommorrow but their understanding of issues tend to reflect the ignorance you will find in the uneducated and poorly informed. How does a defender of criminality begin to perform mouth gymnastics by saying corrupt people who were in the pdp left and then turn around and give members of the pdp clean bill as being corrupt free? If educated Nigerians can act so gullibly is there any other reason why we are where we are?

BiafraBushBoy:
Shameless PDP!!

Criticize wisely, they are counting Bags of Rice!!

Why can't PDP help those Agatu people??

Or is it only APC that can help?

Akpabio with all his stolen money can't even show love!!

Bunch of God forsaken criminals!!

DropShot:
As e be say she no dey Thief money like PDP nko?

Ghost01:
How can you invite Aribisala to a serious discussion on Nigeria? The man is one huge comedy! What Buhari took from him, I'll never know. So because a government wants to show that it is serious about fighting corruption it should create more agencies? C'mon!

mideactive:
Most of d crimes being handled by d efcc/icpc ar crimes committed by d people dat wer involved in d pdp govt of d last administration,n we al knw our justice system is very slow.I'm sure al those indicted wl be persecuted,it's just a matter of time.true we cannot say d present administration don't av very corrupt ppl but,I thing it should be handled one @ a time.n care must be taken so as not to put Nigeria in a very bad shap.perhaps,d past govt had every opportunity to deal wit d corrupt once in d apc,wat stoped him.is mr aribisala sayin dat we shold let d criminals go just bcus we don't want to witch hunt 'em?hw can an elderly man be against somethin like dis?is he sayin bcus Efcc n icpc wer formed by pdp,it cannot be used by apc.wat happens to Continuity?personally,I think we'r on a d right part,al we need is to subtract n add not to completely Condemn d process.so many revelations,so many Enlightenment,d people ar more aware now.is dat not something?wat's wrong wit men like aribisala?

MrALIVE:
PDP please learn to play opposition wisely

Ozid:
This Mr Aribisala is just making mockery of himself. If at this age of his he sees nothing bad in corruption then he need to have a brain check up.