PROFLIGATE PRESIDENT BUHARI: BUDGET OFFICE RELEASES 2016 DETAILS

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!!!!!!!!!!!!! Appropriation_Bill__Details_.pdf Appropriation_Bill__Details_.pdf Loading…… View on drive.google.com Preview by Yahoo 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 December 30, 2015 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter 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 on December 29, 2015   /   in Femi Aribisala 7:25 am   /   Comments Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Reddit Print 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. Appeal Court Reserves Judgment On Taraba Governorship Election Appeal Court Reserves Judgment On Taraba Governorshi... The Court of Appeal in Abuja has ruled that the duly elected governor of Taraba state is Aisha Jummai Alhassan and not Darius Ishaku. View on www.naij.com Preview by Yahoo 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 28 Dec 2015 Font Size: a / A Ibe Kachikwu Says at current crude prices, there is no subsidy  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.