We have just shared
on OurCountryNigeria Blog and also on my personal blog the budget break down. Find
the link hereunder. It is official the Federal Government Budget office has now
released the details of President Buhari’s 2016 budget. Thanks, University of Benin Professor of
Criminal Law now sends it to my Facebook.
Punch newspaper
report today was correct! Punch is right. Additionally I have seen under
miscellaneous the sum of N356.7 Million,
to headless item when good money could actually transform the lives of
300 poor. Here are two quick examples 300 Talakawans Buhari pretended he
represented pre-March 2015 presidential election and monitor disbursement of
N1.2 Million to each of them to see if you won’t jump start meaningful
employment of our Brothers& Sisters in the North and move towards lighting
up North.
We have another N387
Million to renovate the President’s Guest House. Also take 300 poor from South and disburse
the same amount of N1.2Million to each of them to see if it won’t ‘miraclize’
poor South.
This Government is
Wasteful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]TODAY'S PUNCH INDICATES PMB IS MORE WASTEFUL
President Buhari now beats GEJ's profligacy.
We hinted on the hypocrisy of Mr President.
That PMB is not interested in curbing waste.
Now Buhari has unequivocally displayed
shocking extravagance and profligate spending.
A typical military man's lust for power!
Now read today's Punch on PMB's budget.
Buhari, Osinbajo to spend N2.2bn on travels, food, others
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 President Muhammadu Buhari
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari and
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are to spend N2.2bn on travels and
transport, foodstuffs and catering materials, refreshment and meals as
well as honorarium and sitting allowances in the 2016 fiscal year.
Details of this spending are contained
in the 2016 budget of N6.08tn, which the President submitted to a joint
session of the National Assembly last week.
An analysis of the document, a copy of
which was obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday in Abuja, showed that
the total allocation of N2.2bn to the President and his deputy was
N710m higher than what was budgeted for the same purpose under former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the budget document,
N1.415bn was allocated to the President alone for general travels and
transport. This amount, when compared to the N944.62m that Jonathan got
in 2015, was N470.38m or 49.7 per cent higher.
A breakdown of the N1.415bn allocated
for the President’s travels shows that the sum of N714.5m is proposed
for local travels while N701.16m is budgeted for international travels.
Both sums, when compared to the N640.34m
and N304.32m allocated for the same purposes under Jonathan for local
and foreign trips, represent an increase of N74.16m and N396.84m.
For foodstuffs and catering materials, a
total sum of N114.9m is allocated for Buhari alone, indicating an
increase of N45.09m or 64.6 per cent over that of Jonathan.
In terms of honorarium and sitting
allowances, N307.64m was budgeted for the President as against N223.24m
allocated for the same purpose in 2015.
In the same vein, N49.1m has been
proposed for the President in the 2016 fiscal period for publicity and
advertisement as against N29.8m in 2015.
For the office of the Vice-President,
the budget document states that N48m is proposed for general travels and
transport in 2016 as opposed to N33.86m in 2015.
In the same vein, the document says
N13.3m and N13.9m are being proposed for international travels and
transport (trainings) and international travels and transport (others)
for the Vice- President in 2016.
Both amounts, when compared to the sum
of N9.4m and N9.87m, which was allocated for the same purpose in 2015,
represents an increase of N3.9m and N4.03m respectively.
Other amounts allocated for the Vice-
President are foodstuffs and catering, N16.6m; refreshment and meals,
N7.5m; honorarium and sitting allowance, N8.8m; and publicity and
advertisement, N23.08m.
These amounts allocated for Osinbajo,
when compared to the amount budgeted for former Vice President Namadi
Sambo for the same purpose under the 2015 budget, represent an increase
of N4.84m, N2.18m, N1.88m and N6.79m respectively.
The document also listed other
expenditure items for the office of the Vice President to include
maintenance service, N46.44; consultancy, N9.6m; other services, N22.3m;
fuel and lubricants, N24.9m, among others.
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi
Adeosun, had shortly after assumption of office in November, inaugurated
the Efficiency Unit to assist the government cut the cost of
governance.
The minister, who said the unit was
approved by Buhari to drive down the cost of running government, said no
amount of economic policies would deliver the desired results if the
manner in which government money was expended was not carefully
controlled.
Adeosun lamented that while much had
been said about effects of corruption on the economy, little attention
was given to the damaging effects of inefficiency and wastages.
She pointed out that a review carried
out by the ministry had discovered wide variations in terms of costs
between departments and within agencies as there were currently no
guidelines on spending
The minister added, “In the few weeks I
have spent as the Minister of Finance, it has become clear that without a
radical intervention to manage the costs of government, no meaningful
improvement in our nation will be forthcoming.
“No amount of fiscal innovation,
financial re-engineering or other well intentioned economic policy will
deliver the desired results, for as long as the manner in which
government money is expended is not carefully controlled.”
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]UGANDA: WHEN STATE AGENTS ARE MANIACAL
Dear Lady Attorney
MOF,
Phone number received. Thanks. I have called
some activists in Uganda. I was in Kampala in 2013, as part of vital voices
lead team and we had incisive sessions with some of the activists so I had to
search my contact and we spoke around 6pm which was 8pm Ugandan time and they
confirmed to me the incidence happened at political rally there.
You see my learned lady, Mr Yoweri Museveni
has been President of Uganda since Jan 1986 (twenty years) and he wants to
continue in office, he wants to run again and the Inspector General of Police
Kale Kayihura had to arrest and strip a number of women who support his closest
rival, Dr Kizza Besigye and that was what reflected in the video we shared
yesterday 28th Dec of female opposition leader Zaina Fatuma and her
aide who were completely un-dressed bundled into a van. Our country Nigeria will have to appreciate
democrat Jonathan’s May 2015.
God loves this country, we probably would not
be typing and blogging away by now if President Jonathan had showed the
desperation of in the quest to cling on to power at any and every cost. Look at
Rwandan President now he called a referendum and he is staying on till 2034.
Or Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe?. A female lawyer
won human rights award IBA Boston whereat Zimbabwean authorities had beat her
and left marks on her back, protesting Mugabe’s intolerance of opposition.
In 2006, President Museveni won by 59% votes
and Dr Besigye challenged it. The Ugandan Supreme Court by a split decision,
four to three upheld the election. In 2011, Museveni ‘won’ the election but Dr
Besigye again rejected the outcome, EU
observers said the election was “marred
by avoidable and logistical failures” – Akin to Nigeria’s failed PVCs and card
readers.
Back to the Ugandan female opposition leader
being harassed hounded and stripped in front of the public and bundled into
waiting van in the video of yesterday, the Human Rights Institute and the
Ugandan Law Society have spoken against the mistreatment. Also a UN rep.,in
Kampala. We are following up on Kampala and will post periodically.
Thanks noble daughter, for calling attention,
will call during the week.
Yours truly,
HR Attorney Ajie
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]AD-SCRIPT: That Was Ugandan Female Opposition Leader
Please
clarify am I right in saying that one of the ladies stripped is the
leader of opposition in Uganda and the Police Chief obviously acting a
filthy political script. That was indecency taken too far. I agree with
you the African continent in collaboration with UK, US have no option
than to rise. Please our NBA premier Chairman's noble daughter your
phone number is not going through. Mine is 08033041206.
Yours sincerely
HR Attorney Carol Ajie
PS:
I have sent the video by a private mail to Nigeria's former Minister of
Women Affairs Iyom Josephine. Please let's share it to those who can
take action. You know our people generally they see other posts on rape
videos and cheer profanely rather than jeer at Nigerian perverts.
From: Morenike Obifarinde <mobifarinde@gmail.com>
To: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 11:13 AM
Subject: Uganda
"Ugandan
Police commander Kale Kayihura reportedly stripped and manhandled a
leading female opposition party leader Zaina Fatuma and an aide who are
members of the forum for democratic change's national executive
committee. When will Africans learn to stop abusing authority and power?
What can we do as Africans to bring Kale Kayihura to account. Please
re-post this video to mobilise support for accountability in Uganda and
Africa at large"
Thanks Dame. Got from a whatsapp group I belong to.
Morenike Obi-Farinde
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]NIGERIA'S (MIS)INFORMATION MINISTER SHOULD BE SACKED - Femi Aribisala
Why Lai Mohammed must be fired
By Femi Aribisala
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was the Minister of Information in the dying
days of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Nicknamed “Comical Ali” by
British tabloids, al-Sahaf made a fool of himself during the Iraqi war
by constantly fabricating victories of the Iraqi army, even as territory
after territory fell to the American-led allied forces.
What was so ridiculous about him was that his lies were so blatant,
only fools could believe them. Even when American tanks rolled into
Baghdad, Comical Ali declared: “There is no presence of the American
columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed
most of them. Today, the tide has turned. We are destroying them. The
Americans are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks.”
Comical Lai
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, is
Nigeria’s home-grown “Comical Ali.” It would not be unfair to fashion
him as “the Minister of FABU.” Barely two months of assuming office,
Mohammed has established himself as an instrument of cheap propaganda
and disinformation. On internet blogs today, he is now generally
referred to by his traducers as “Liar Mohammed.” Without a doubt, he
has earned this sobriquet by his penchant to be extremely economical
with the truth.
Lai Mohammed’s tall tales have now reached epidemic proportions. It
is a contradiction in terms that a government that claims to be
anti-corruption, and a president that boasts to be a man of integrity,
should have a “Comical Ali” as its face and spokesman. It is doubtful
that Mohammed can stop being himself. However, if President Buhari is
interested in redeeming his now battered image, he needs to admit he
made a big error of judgment in appointing Mohammed as a minister.
Lai Mohammed must be fired immediately. Barring which, the only
honourable thing left for the Honourable Minister to do is to resign. A
Minister of Information should not be allowed to become a Minister of
Misinformation.
Fictitious Victory
On 23 December, 2015, Mohammed told a meeting of editorial heads of
media houses in Lagos that the Nigerian military has met President
Buhari’s deadline to defeat Boko Haram before 31 December, 2015.
Said Mohammed: “Today, I can report that the war against Boko Haram
is largely won. Today, I can report to you that the entire 70 plus
kilometres stretch from Maiduguri to Bama and all the way to Banki which
leads to Cameroun and the Central African Republic are in the hands of
our gallant troops. They have so degraded the capacity of Boko Haram
that the terrorists can no longer hold on to any territory just as they
can no longer carry out any spectacular attack.”
Rather than call his minister to order, President Buhari backed him
up in the bid to white-wash the gaffe of predicting Boko Haram would be
defeated before the end of the year. He told the BBC: “Boko Haram has
reverted to using improvised explosive devices. They have now been
reduced to that. But articulated conventional attacks on centres of
communication and populations.. they are no longer capable of doing that
effectively. So I think technically we have won the war because people
are going back into their neighbourhoods. Boko Haram as an organised
fighting force, I assure you, that we have dealt with them.”
The president conveniently forgot he had said at his inaugural
address that: “We cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without
rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by
insurgents.” We have heard nothing about the Chibok girls.
Nevertheless, the president now says Boko Haram has been technically
defeated. Are we therefore to conclude that the Chibok girls have also
been technically rescued?
Boko Haram response
The victory declarations of Lai Mohammed and President Buhari turned out
not only to be palpably false, but outrightly dangerous. Just two
days after Mohammed’s declaration, the Boko Haram who he says “can no
longer carry out any spectacular attack” attacked Kimba in Borno State.
They killed 14 hapless people and razed the village to the ground.
According to eye-witness reports, “not a single house was spared in the
arson.”
One day later, a coordinated fighting unit of Boko Haram infantry
attacked Maiduguri. They came in a military convoy, precisely the
manner the president boasted is now impossible. They then dug in for a
pitched battle against the Nigerian army. Thereafter, two female
suicide-bombers detonated explosives in the Jiddari area of Maiduguri,
with casualty figures yet to be determined.
There is no doubt these attacks were direct responses to APC’s vain
propaganda. Boko Haram decided to give the lie to the bombastic
statements that it has been defeated either technically or in
actuality. To drive home the point beyond reasonable doubt, the
insurgents chose to attack Maiduguri, the very command and control
epicentre of Nigeria’s military operations in the North-east.
Clearly, the defeat of Boko Haram only exists as figments in the
imaginations of APC propagandists. Having won the election by
manipulating the press, they now seek to govern by employing a cacophony
of jobless youth whose charge is to post “SAI Buhari” comments on as
many internet blogs as possible. They also have the mandate to attack
anyone who refuses to buy the many-splendored FABUS of the APC
government.
APC’s bogus propaganda is partly responsible for the deaths and
destruction in Kimba, Aladuwari and Maiduguri, the full extent of which
are yet to be determined. The false victory procession of APC
chieftains provoked the Boko Haram to contradict them at the cost of
Nigerian lives. It is way too early to call for the impeachment of Mr.
President. But it is high time to call for the retirement of Lai
Mohammed. We must not allow this local “Comical Ali” to continue to use
Nigerian lives to score cheap political points.
While the APC was busy celebrating the fictitious death of Boko
Haram, the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace declared in
its latest Global Terrorism Index that Boko Haram “has become the most
deadly terrorist group in the world.” The day before Mohammed’s
bombast, UNICEF declared that Boko Haram has succeeded in keeping over
one million children out of school, warning that this is likely to add
fuel to the insurgency by radicalizing the youth in the North-east.
Campaign recantations
It was Lai Mohammed who told Nigerians the promises of the APC during
the election were actually not from the APC. The APC denied its key
presidential campaign documents: “My Covenant with Nigerians” and “One
Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days.” Buhari himself presents one
of the documents in the first person, saying: “The covenant is derived
from the manifesto of my party, the All Progressives Congress. It
however represents my pledge to you all when I become your president.”
But once he became president, Mohammed denied them. He swore that:
“Buhari never promised to do anything in 100 days, that’s the honest
truth.” However, when APC Senators were forced to vote against their
own campaign promise to provide N5,000 monthly to 25 million unemployed
Nigerians, Mohammed declared that the government already has 1.4
trillion naira recovered from banks through the TSA ready to fulfil the
promise. He said we should expect it in the 2016 budget.
These are his words: “The non-implementation of the payment policy so
far is due to the fact that it was not included in the 2015 budget. The
Muhammadu Buhari administration has been busy putting in place measures
that will make it possible to start the implementation of this
project.”
This has turned out as usual to be another tissue of lies. The 2016
budget has now been announced, and there is nothing about the N5000
stipend for the 25 million unemployed.
Presidential doublespeak
The government of President Buhari is replete with contradictions and doublespeak.
At the APC South-East rally in Owerri, Buhari declared he would make the
naira equal to the dollar if voted into office. He continued: “It is
sad that the value of the naira has dropped to more than 230 to one
dollar. This does not speak well for the nation’s economy.” How does it
speak for the economy now that the value of the naira has dropped under
Buhari to 280 to the dollar?
Buhari said: “Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing
large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following
was given posthumous fame and following by his extra-judicial murder at
the hands of the police.” What then are we to say about the
extra-judicial massacre of over 300 Shiite Muslims in Zaria at the hands
of the Nigerian army under this Buhari administration?
Buhari said during the campaign: “You are all my people; I will treat
you all as mine. I will work for those who voted for me, voted against
me and those who didn’t vote at all.” Then he said after the campaign:
“The constituents (that) gave me 97% cannot in all honesty be treated on
some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%.”
On his election, the president said: “Our long night is over and a
new dawn has come… Democracy and rule of law will be put in place.” “I
pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall
be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none
shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.” But
under his administration, democracy and the rule of law has continued
to be violated. The DSS ignores court verdicts with impunity, as
happened in the case of Dasuki and Kanu.
Justice Muazu Pindigi was summarily replaced by Justice Ambrosa as
chairman of the Rivers state governorship petitions tribunal and PDP’s
victory was quickly annulled. Pindigi said: “The Supreme Court has said
that for an election to be annulled, the petitioner has to prove that
elections didn’t hold at the polling units where the winner was returned
elected. I’m not sure that the Ambrosa’s judgment arrived through that
route.”
During the election, Buhari declared the maintenance of the
presidential fleet of aircrafts a colossal waste of money. He said:
“For me, when we come into office, all these waste will be blocked and
properly channeled into our economy.” However, since he became
president, not a single plane has been sold. Billions of naira continue
to be spent as the president has gone on one international junket after
the other.
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]COURT OF APPEAL ON TARABA GOV JUDGMENT NOT READ
Please contrary to the reports that
the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division
had entered judgment for the APC
Gov candidate AlHassan, the appellate
Tribunal only heard the appeal a week ago
Monday 21-12 precisely &reserved judgment.
Did not give any judgment or reasons reserved
No judgment was read plitz I am right now
at the Court of Appeal, Abuja in the office
of the DCR Litigation and the registry works.
Wrong reportage said judgment was given
and some had even sent congratulatory post.
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]PDPIGS: 'TUTSIS WERE ALSO REDUCED TO COCKROACHES AND KILLED'
DOCTRINAIRE INFERIOR: TUTSIS WERE
REDUCED TO COCKROACHES& KILLED.
In Sun newspaper online this
Tuesday morning 29-12-15, we have learned that Senator Sani Shehu has been
suspended by his APC ward on account of “el-rufai rift”. But that is not the
rationale for this inquisition.
Readers ran commentaries, one
caught my attention and I have responded that when you call a group of people
or politicians “PDPigs”, the group should
push back by calling you “APC-Apes”
because there is no ideological or practical differences between both. PDP
rulers sought to remove fuel subsidy, APC rulers now seek to remove fuel
subsidy and have introduced a term “price modular” to fix price in Jan.
PDP rulers kept a presidential
fleet, APC profligates also kept the same fleet.
We have read unofficial report of
Buhari’s budget on meals being twice PDP’s regime until we have seen official
breakdown even if they would feed on smoked salmon every day, walk into a
5-Star restaurant in Abuja where I had my Christmas buffet lunch, smoked salmon
served, lunch costs much less than N10,000= plus a glass of red wine,
complimentary plus I was told to cut the Christmas cake with icing, nice. So
what are they feeding on? They are repeating the mistakes of previous regimes. ARMSGATE –PDP; BUDGETGATE – APC only one
is in central government, power inebriate, the other has lost elections and
APC/PMB great in the art of covering up theirs.
So when they say PDPigs first do
not dehumanize anyone but when someone tries to ‘inferior-ize’ you when they
indeed haven’t proven superiority of governance skills or talents, took several
months to study hand over papers are we not paying, an enlightened nation for
electing a mere WAEC certificate holder? Push back on the attacker and if they
stop you will also stop.
For genocide to
occur, it must be preceded by the dehumanisation of a group. To dehumanise
means to deny the humanity of someone, reducing them to sub-humans.
In addition,
dehumanisation removes the individuality of a person. There is no difference
between the group and the individuals. When done well, pity for the “other”
becomes impossible and extermination becomes the natural next step.
In Nazi Germany, the
Jews were called the inferior race and transformed into the reason behind all
of Germany’s economic and social problems. Later, the Star of David was used to
identify those to be killed.
In the years leading
up to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, the government used all its
propaganda machinery to spread bigotry and hatred of the Tutsi.
Tutsis were now
called inyenzi (cockroach). The term became ingrained in the public sphere as
almost every single Kangura edition, hate radio RTLM and outspoken politicians
claiming to defend Hutu power referred to human beings as cockroaches.
In Kangura, issue 40,
the editorial title said it all: “A cockroach cannot bring forth a butterfly.”
The editorial argued that the Tutsi, like a cockroach, use the cover of
darkness to infiltrate; “the Tutsi camouflages himself to commit crimes.”
This was not just one
member of the group. All Tutsi men, women and children were no longer citizens
of a nation but cockroaches–qualifying them as enemies to be eliminated.
DO NOT ACCEPT ANTI-HUMAN
RIGHTS DOCTRINE OF ‘INFERIORISM’.
Please
HR Attorney Carol
Ajie
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: "mobifarinde@gmail.com" <mobifarinde@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria]AD-SCRIPT
Dear Mrs Morenike Obi-Faride,
Thanks for calling
attention to the horror movie. I saw the video taken today of two
elderly women you
emailed to me about two hours ago. I have downloaded it only I do not
want to
share on blog post as it is obscene, you know our people would watch as
entertainment 'film' and take no step to help the poor victims.
You may please 'adscript' if
you know what happened and where and which security forces? I didn’t understand the language being spoken, it didn't sound like a Nigerian Language though.
Compliments of the season!
Best,
Attorney Carol Ajie
From: Carol Ajie <carolajie@yahoo.com>
To: OurCountryNigeria Owner <ourcountrynigeria-owner@yahoogroups.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 9:34 PM
Subject: [OurCountryNigeria]FG to Announce Petrol Price in Jan
How do you reconcile these statements?
1) N85/L from Jan 2016; nay more than that;
2) Hovering around N100/L from Jan 2016
3) In the same vein they said at N87/L
Subsidy was already removed.
FG to Announce Petrol Price in January, Kachikwu Clarifies
Ibe Kachikwu
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Says at current crude prices, there is no subsidy
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Ogbe: Funds should be diverted to agriculture
Chineme Okafor, John Shiklam in Kaduna and Adebiyi Adedapo in Abuja
Contrary to the perception created on Christmas day that the price of
petrol would be reduced to N85 per litre effective January 1, the
Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, sunday clarified that
its official price would be announced next month.
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