Another Fake Letter from Desperate GEJ Supporters

On Jan 28, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Ibrahim Sanyi-Sanyi <aim.ssanyi@gmail.com> wrote:

This report carried by 247ureports is the most unintelligent smear campaign and disinformation of the century. Every bit of it is tissues of lies concocted to mislead Nigerians and defame Buhari. My curiosity was aroused by 247ureports' propagation of falsehood forcing me to carry out a lil search on the email address ratd@waecghana.org (indicated in the FAKE letter said to have been obtained from WAEC Ghana). The result I got was shocking!

The following are some of the lies which are contained in the FORGED letter published 247ureports;

1. The website http://ww1.waecghana.org where the email address ratd@waecghana.org (as per the FAKE RESPONSE purportedly obtained from WAEC Ghana) should have been hosted looks very much like a scam site. It contains links to online registration, checking of results, degree/masters programmes, online PhDs etc.

The URL currently in use by WAEC Ghana is www.ghanawaec.org  (compare with WAEC Nigeria's www.waecnigeria.org) while the site for Result Checker is ghana.waecdirect.org (similar to Nigeria's www.waecdirect.org). The contact information on the Result Checker site is;

info@waecgh.org

0302685912

2. The address and telephone indicated on the FAKE letter was;

Examination Loop, Ridge
Accra, Ghana
Tel: 685901-4

The correct address and telephone number is;

Ghana National Office
Examination Loop (Behind Ridge Hospital)
Accra, Ghana
Tel: 0302685901-4

I just wonder what the big idea behind this desperation from Jonathanians is! Why channel enquiries to a phantom WAEC Ghana in the first place? Why not write to Cambridge or WAEC Nigeria if they must?

BTW, why demand for confirmation from WAEC Ghana National Office for exams taken in Nigeria if not for mischief? Can any rational Nigerian write to WAEC Ghana for information on WASC exams taken by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 1975? What will be the natural response to that silly enquiry from the exams body?

Na wah! Only in Naija these kinds of ridiculous things happen.

Lord have mercy!

As I see it.

Ibrahim Sanyi-Sanyi

2015 is the time! GMB, the Messiah, is coming.

http://www.buhari2015supportgroup.org

BreakingNews: WAEC Says It Has No Records On Buhari [Letter Included]
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Where is the result of the forensic audit into missing $20billion?

FG Orders Forensic Audit Of $20bn Missing Oil Fund – Okonjo-Iweala

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— May 9, 2014 | Comments Off

The federal government yesterday said it had directed the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) and Price Waterhouse Coopers to undertake a forensic audit of the alleged missing $20 billion oil money.

The minister of finance, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, announced this at a panelist discussion on the topic “Africa Rising” at the ongoing 24th World Economic Forum on Africa (WEFA), in Abuja.

The forum with the theme “Forging inclusive growth, creating jobs” is attended by over 1,500 delegates from over 70 countries.

The suspended Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, had alleged that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to remit $20 billion to government coffers.

Okonjo-Iweala said the exercise which started last week would be carried out within a period of 16 weeks. According to her, the auditors are to assist in unraveling mysteries surrounding the unaccounted $20 billion.

“On the issue of holding government to account, Nigerians are unrelenting. We need that transparency and we welcome it. The suspended CBN Governor raised issues on an unaccounted amount of money from the federation account. We at the ministry of finance have for two years been reconciling these figures with the NNPC to know what they are supposed to remit to the federation account.

“Our feeling is that the only way is to have a forensic audit that would let Nigerians know the truth on the issue. That the government has approved and it is being done by the Price Waterhouse Coopers under the supervision of the Auditor-General for the Federation. The auditors said they need 12 to 16 weeks to do that, and all these would be clarified,” she said.

On poverty and inclusive growth, Okonjo-Iweala said the nature of economic growth in the continent had not been inclusive enough, adding that more needed to be done to change the quality of economic growth.

She said, “It is obvious that the quality of our growth is not good enough because we are rising with inequality and without creating jobs for our people. We need to get people to go into farming through ‘Nagroprenuer’ where 750,000 youths would be encouraged to go into agriculture.

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 http://leadership.ng/business/370092/fg-orders-forensic-audit-20bn-missing-oil-fund-okonjo-iweala

THE NIGERIAN FRONT: Mr. President and the Courage of his Convictions

The Front releases another paper prepared for President Jonathan about four years ago, it remains as relevant now as then as we decide who governs us…..

THE NIGERIAN FRONT: Mr. President and the Courage of his Convictions

By Olu O Ojedokun on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 at 19:40

The recent silence from the front has been based on one consideration, the appropriateness of providing space for the President to consider the road map we have previously published.   We consider a honeymoon period allows the newly elected President time to establish the courage of his convictions, fine tune his team and assume stamina for a sprint lasting the next four years.  We believe everyone is entitled to such a period of grace, but the danger arises when honeymoon becomes a regular feature of governance and cover for shenanigans such as term extension. 

After a review of the state of our Nation we are sorry to declare that the omens so far are not good and the initial signs indicate Mr. President is intent on proving the critics right.  The first few weeks have been characterized by weakness, lack of direction and a continuation of the prevarication of the past 12 months.  Those who thought a mandate achieved through an electoral process would embolden Mr. President to go for the sprint, casting aside special/vested interests have been left bewildered.  The President is yet to come to grips with the fact that he can accomplish more in a day than most people can ever do in a lifetime.

A symptom of this is the amount of time the President spent prevaricating over the appointment of his Chief of Staff, a very intimate but strategic appointment the hallmark of the process was indecision.  However, we can only hope the flaws in the process was mitigated by the fact that the President considered the following questions in the appointment:

Is the current Chief of Staff smarter than him?

Would he trust him with his life?

Will he keep the wheel of government turning?

If Mr. President has been unable to process the answers to these questions then we appear to be in for more of the same, lethargy, weakness and prevarication disguised as governance.

Then there is the saga in the recent composition of the ministerial list, supposedly drawn up in our very own ‘Camp David’.  The list was forwarded to the Senate with names of nominees who had already undergone necessary security checks and then at a moment’s notice withdrawn just before being screened by the Senate.  What is puzzling, is the government is still unable or is incapable of offering any form of explanation whatsoever for the shambles of the process.  In this failure he demonstrates his inability to hold on to the courage of his convictions and escape the narrow party interests.

We are also concerned with the handling of the Boko Haram crises, which has bordered on appeasement rather than dealing with the roots and causes.  We remind the President that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the empire free of the fear of molestation.  He could walk across unharmed, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus -- I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally certain, should any harm befall even one of her citizens.

Now we ask where was the protection for the countless numbers of Nigerians that have been murdered by Boko Haram?  Where was the retribution for the families, and where is the warning to the rest of the group that Nigerians shall walk this length and breadth of its land unharmed, lest the clenched fist of the mighty military force comes crashing down on their houses?  In other words, Mr. President what are you doing about Boko Haram?

What about the war on corruption? Is Mr. President serious about such a war? We suggest that for any war to succeed it needs heroes and not cowards, however, there are limited signs that it is forming the highest of his priorities. We have the spectacle of the current Attorney General trying to hobble the powers of prosecution of the EFCC.   Further doubts are raised about Mr President’s seriousness when one understands that Mr. Francis Ugochukwu Elechi, the nominee for the Chair of the Independent Corrupt Practices Comission is a card carrying member of the ruling party.  We suggest seriousness should start with a Presidential communication to the nation along these lines:

 “More than any time in recent history, Nigeria's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with the evil of corruption. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arrive.  Every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet the challenge of corruption, we look up and we are reminded that the capacity may well be limitless. In our war against corruption I realise this is a time for Nigerian heroes and I am prepared to go down fighting corruption as one. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for Nigerian heroes and we will fight the root causes of corruption and ensure accountability is restored.”

In conclusion we refer to an article written in the first few months of term of the previous President:

 “A pattern, one, that seems to have emerged with this President, is a recurring theme that maybe crucial in the understanding of the character of his administration.  I see in the many government actions or inactions rarely any capacity for straightforwardness, directness or transparency.  For it appears it is congenitally incapable of being frank, clear or assertive.  Furthermore in my limited perception I believe this administration is playing some complex, convoluted game while Nigeria stagnates.  President Yar’Adua’s return, rather than a return to the routine of governance has been fraught with ambiguities, knee-deep in complications with hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggressions and paranoid confusions.  The Nigerian President’s handlers seem perversely determined to make everything as difficult as possible for his administration and for the country.”

We do hope history is not about to repeat itself with this new President. 

However, it would be wrong to limit the critique to Mr President when we have a legislature that took the earliest opportunity after being sworn in to proceed on recess and has been unable to constitute the committees necessary for its oversight function of the executive.  Some would suggest this is amateur hour all the way but we will remain steadfast on the front.

Dr. Olu Ojedokun writes on behalf of The Nigerian Front.

Signed by the following Representatives of The Nigerian Front: Mr. Remi Jibowu, Dr. Onochie Okoye, Alh Ismaila Zakari, Prince Asuquo Ibok, Mr. Bashar Dankaro and Dr. Olu Ojedokun 

CONCLUSIONS OF JUSTICE IRIKEFE PANEL ON ALLEGED MISSING N2.8 BILLION

First Watch: The missing oil money

on March 19, 2014   /   in Business 12:03 am   /   Comments

By Akintola Omigbodun (Dr)

THE Justice Irikefe Tribunal was put in place in 1980 following on reports during 1979 that an amount of N2.8 billion was missing from crude oil sales for the period 1976 to 1979. This amount was at that time the equivalent of about one year’s sale of crude oil by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

The tribunal had as its chairman Justice Ayo Irikefe, a judge of the Supreme Court at that time and who later became the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The tribunal, amongst other things, was to determine if N2.8 billion or any other sum of money was missing from the accounts of the NNPC. The conclusion of the Irikefe Tribunal was that no proceeds of crude oil sales were missing or not properly accounted for.

We currently have reports that for crude oil sales in the last few years, the NNPC may not have credited the Federation Account with some amount that should be due to the Federation Account. It would appear that the NNPC has not built into it organisational fabric measures that would prevent the sort of controversies that took place about thirty-five years ago when an amount of N2.8 billion was alleged to be missing from crude oil sales receipts.

Chief Festus Marinho, the first Managing Director of the NNPC, was in position during the controversies of 1980. He published a book in 2010 entitled Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry: A Maverick Pioneer. The book is further subtitled – A recollection of my life, times and contribution to Nigeria’s prosperity. The book should be read by officials in both the legislative and executive arms of government. Government officials would thereby understand why the current situation has arisen and why the public views with suspicion government officials who are placed in charge of the nation’s assets.

Extraordinary measures

The information in Chief Marinho’s book is that crude oil sales are on long-term basis and that the same customers are retained as long as they were performing. Invoices for sales of crude oil are issued by the NNPC and payments against invoices are made into nominated accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in Europe and North America in hard convertible currencies. The CBN subsequently credits the NNPC crude oil sales account held with the CBN. The CBN is therefore aware of NNPC’s income from crude oil sales. The issue of what amounts should have been paid into the Federation Account can be readily resolved without recourse to any extra-ordinary measures.

The NNPC is not capitalised and therefore it does not view itself as a totally commercial organisation. Chief Marinho has indicated in his book the advantages of capitalising the NNPC. A few years back, the Federal Government used funds from the excess crude account for some power sector projects. Eventually, these projects have been capitalised as the Niger Delta Power Holding Company belonging to the Federal Government, the State Governments and the Local Governments. The NNPC can also be capitalised.

One of the views that found ready public acceptance at the time of the Irikefe Tribunal was that the N2.8 billion was paid into a private account to earn interest in that account for some time before the money was transferred back into government accounts. This was denied and the Irikefe Tribunal found no such transactions. However, any organisation that has faced such a challenge to its credibility should have made its point by presenting its audited accounts promptly.

There may also be some significance to a missing oil funds controversy occurring about thirty five years after the previous in 1979/1980. Give the rules of employment into government establishments which stipulate the maximum length of service for an employee as thirty-five years, there would be very few current employees of the NNPC who were in service in 1979/1980. This should alert us to the need to put our institutions on a firm and proper footing for all generations.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/first-watch-missing-oil-money/#sthash.wMT56ZKT.dpuf

And

Another report which referred to it: "Public knowledge of corruption in the oil sector dates back to 1980 following reports that some N2.8 billion in oil receipts was missing or unaccounted for at the time. The Shehu Shagari Administration set up a panel under the chairmanship of Supreme Court Justice Ayo Irikefe to probe the finances of the national oil consortium, NNPC. Although the Commission reported that it found no evidence that any money was missing it however produced some starling disclosures:
“Prof. Ayodele Awojobi of the University of Lagos demonstrated that the barrel being used to lift crude from Nigeria‟s oil wells was four gallons bigger than the standard international barrel. This meant that the company doing the lifting got four gallons for every barrel. Multiply that by a million and we are talking big money even in currency far less than the Naira” (Dare, 201064).
The pertinent question for NEITI to answer is whether the companies lifting the country‟s crude oil have since switched to the international standard barrel. On the issue of the quantum of oil produced, the Ayo Irikefe Commission found:
“ that nobody knew how much oil was being lifted. The metering rooms, manned by expatriates were out of bounds to Nigerian
officials. In return for not doing what they were assigned to do, the officials were generously provisioned with cash, canned beer,
then a novelty in Nigeria and expenses paid holidays abroad”(ibid)."

http://www.citizensbudget.org/citizens_image/Spend_and_Borrow_2011.pdf

TO NIGERIA…… ‘I HAVE FOUND MY VOICE’

As we enter into this crucial election period, to Nigeria, I sound a clarion call, to those who are dissatisfied with the current status quo I conclude with a series of posers. If there is anybody out there who still disbelieves that my life is an example of someone who demonstrates the art of the impossible becoming possible; who still wonders about the legacies that my ancestors left me; who still questions whether a small diminutive boy with little academic potential can rise to great heights; then this article is your answer. Is there is anyone that doubts the potential of the question called ‘Nigeria’, this is my response. If there is anyone who asserts that our country will only end in sorrow and tears and blood, today I challenge that assertion.

It is various Nigerians who reject the myth of their generation’s apathy who have challenged me to take on the orthodoxy of current thinking and to ask the hard questions. They have challenged me because they understand the gravity of our task, which lies ahead and the futility of doing nothing.  

The pathway ahead remains hard, our ascent steep, and we may not get there with one election, but I am filled with more hope now than ever before that we will get there and we will reclaim our voice. I do not in a thousand years suggest that my words conceived in the depths of my anguish should end on the screen of a computer.  I am certain that this election may not bring about the all the changes others and I seek; but it creates a space for us to make that change. As the electorate this is our chance to reclaim our voice to answer the call for this is our moment and this is our time. By default, we have had bad governments in Nigeria because we have allowed the past and present rulers to operate on the unending margins of despair and apathy. They acquired power not because they had a genius about them but because we were asleep in deep slumber and the coalition of progressives was fractured.

In the past, I have made reference to the template of President Obama, the improbability of a black man becoming the President of the United States. I have written about the near impossibility that was overcome when the first man was sent to the moon. The obstacle that Apartheid presented and the dismantling of it without a bloodbath, the impregnability of the Berlin Wall which came tumbling down! I therefore lay down a challenge to the cynics who claim that Nigeria is an impossible case and that without our abject surrender to corruption and its accompanying violence we simply do not have a chance at mounting a challenge to the status quo.

I ask what do we have to lose by trying? I suggest we lose more in not trying at all. I go further to state today that by helping the people find their ‘voice’ across the diaspora in Nigeria from Sokoto to Lagos, Kwara to Taraba, Borno to Imo, Cross River to Kano, we will be able to proclaim with all certainty and voices soaring above the skies of Nigeria that our time has come!

I visualise a quality of leadership whose style is outstanding. Leadership that influences others through inspiration, generated by a passion and ignited by a genuine and sincere purpose.  Not a leader who lords it over the governed and is only after personal aggrandizement and avarice. The vision is of a new crop of leadership, which demonstrates the passion and willingness to serve and serve responsibly.

I suggest that the principle of good governance is acknowledged as essential for the success of any Nation. Leaders at the helm of our affairs should play a vital role in serving their causes and communities through committed passion as well as skills and experience to the instruments of governance and the governed. The principle of good governance enhances the provision of long-term vision and protects the reputation and values of a Nation. To make a difference our politicians need to have proper procedures and policies in place. The principle of good governance will ensure the delivery of welfarist promises made through a team that is accountable, sincere and astute.

For me I know my stand, my search has ended and ‘I have found my voice’.  My fervent hope is that we all discover what we seek as we tread our own respective path, proceed to the election booth and are faced with the ballot box.

GEJ SUPPORTERS FORGE CAMBRIDGE LETTER TO DISCREDIT BUHARI

From Sodiq Alabi facebook    https://www.facebook.com/sodiqoalabi

See in particular:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/973399802688470/?pnref=story

Question:

Did Cambridge really confirm that Hausa language was an exam subject in 1961 WASC?

Answer: YES.

How do I know? Because I am the one who sent them an email asking for confirmation and I got a positive response.  

Why did I send them an email?

Because since General Muhammadu Buhari's Statement of Result (SoR) was released on January 21, his detractors have been coming up with some truly, embarrassingly pathetic arguments in their bid to dismiss the authenticity of the SoR. Bucky Hassan, a private citizen like myself, has dismantled all their puerile arguments in this brilliant post (https://www.facebook.com/buckyhas/posts/10152808456886676 ).

However, not withstanding Ms Hassan's intervention, the anti Buhari crowd continue to spread their lies. As a fine user of Google (if I do say so myself), I thought I should subject what I consider their most unfounded argument to a basic scrutiny, which is the argument that Hausa was not an examination subject in 1961. They even went further to claim that no Nigerian school was teaching Hausa as of 1961. Some of them said that it was until 1971 or so that Hausa was taught and examined in  schools.

I didn't have to use Google to know that they  were wrong on all counts. Anybody with the slightest interest in Nigerian History would tell you that there was no time in the 20th Century that Hausa was not taught and examined. Please read this work on how Hausa became a subject taught and examined in Nigeriahttp://org.uib.no/smi/sa/15/15Philips.pdf. Hausa Language became part of the school curriculum in the early part of the 20^thcentury, at least before 1930 (Toyin Falola, Culture and Customs of Nigeria, page 60- available online)

Anyway, I took their claim to Google and it fell apart. I was able to get the email of the Cambridge Assessment Archive Service fromhttp://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/our-research/archives-service/ and I sent them this email at 1:31 pm of January 22:

From: sodiq alabi [mailto:sodiqalabi@hotmail.com]
Sent: 22 January 2015 13:31
To: Archives Team
Subject: 1961 WASC
Sent: 22 January 2015 13:31
To: Archives Team
Subject: 1961 WASC

Hello,


I will like to confirm if your examination body offered Hausa Language in the 1961 West  African School Certificate examination it organised.

Thank you.
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And this is the response  I got three hours later:

Dear Sodiq Alabi

According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa were set for the West African School Certificate.

Jacky EmersonArchiveService Delivery OfficerCambridgeAssessment Archives Service

And this is what I did next:

I made a Facebook post about my findings https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200156831681062&set=a.1039486204946.5438.1759279248&type=1&theater , and I attached a screen grab of my email exchange with Cambridge.  The post and the picture have made their way around Naija cyber space like wildfire. They have been correctly used by couple of online media including Sahara Reporters and naij.com.

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PROPOSALS FOR DEALING WITH OUR RECURRING BUDGET DEFICIT….

In 2011 the Front authored this document, today I consider the points raised are as relevant today as they were then.  We believe all Presidential candidates to be credible under this climate must demonstrate how they intend to address the consistent deficit in our current budget…..                                                    

THE NIGERIAN FRONT: An Unaffordable Deficit

By Olu O Ojedokun on Monday, 6 June 2011 at 19:34

THE NIGERIAN FRONT: An Unaffordable Deficit

We of The Nigerian Front are gravely concerned about the state of our nation stemming from the current prognosis of the recently signed budget.  The budget indicates that greed continues to dominate the polity as our resources are being mismanaged.  If care is not taken the consequences would be devastating for generations to come.  While we do not wish to become prophets of doom and gloom it is surely our role to challenge the government to keep it honest in order to avoid economic disaster.

We will, in the ensuing paragraphs, provide a proper context to the seriousness of the Nigerian situation by quoting from an elder statesman of blessed memory.  A man who spoke truth to power in an era different from ours and echoed words that we restate today because we are left with little choice: We now believe there is a frightful danger ahead visible for those who care and are patriotic enough to look beyond their narrow self-interest.  The ship of state is fast approaching a huge rock, and unless the President as the chief helmsman quickly rises to the occasion and courageously steers the ship away from its present course, it shall hit the rock and the inescapable consequence will be an unspeakable disaster of monumental proportions.

We have begun this particular article with a great alarm only because the situation demands it.  The recent reports confirm that the President, Goodluck Jonathan has signed into law a budget with a trillion naira deficit.   The budget for the 2011 fiscal year reveals a total expenditure of N4.485 trillion ($29.2 billion) with a deficit of N1.136 trillion based on the benchmark oil price of $75/bbl.

The great concern is how the nation continues to run a budget with such huge deficits caused by the unsustainable pace at which the recurrent expenditure continues to grow.  This is illustrated by fact that the 469 incoming lawmakers will earn N338.6 billion in the next four years, adding almost N85 billion to the deficit every year.

Further detail reveals that only N18.245 billion of this expenditure is the actual budgeted salary for the legislature over their 4-year tenure.  The rest of the jumbo pay comes in the form of the quarterly allowances the two chambers of the legislature approved for themselves last year.  When providing justification for its approval they described it as: “running cost/quarterly allowance.”

The breakdown of the allowance which comes down to N42 million and N45 million each for a Representative and Senator respectively would see the members of the House of Representatives earning an additional N168 million every year, a figure that translates to N672 million for the four years such a lawmaker would stay in office while for the Senate, it comes to N720 million per Senator.

It is instructive to note but for the inflated allowances of the legislators what should be reflected on their pay slips should be their statutory salary of N18.245 billion, the total expenditure for the two chambers in over four years.  Of this amount, N4, 881, 394, 960 will be spent on the 109 Senators while the remaining N13, 364, 450, 550 will be spent on the maintenance of the 360 members of the House of Representatives.

In line with the remuneration package for political, public and judicial office holders approved by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) from July 2009, a Senator earns an annual emolument of N8, 206, 920 while a member of the House of Representatives takes home N6, 352, 680 per annum.  The cumulative emolument of a Senator for the four-year term will, therefore, come to N32, 827, 680.  In addition, each of the 109 Senators is expected to take home another N11, 145, 200 in allowances described by the RMAFC as non-regular, and are collected one off as the case may be, at the beginning of the tenure.

The legislators seem to have no reverse gear as far as spending is concerned, they are oblivious to the global trends and are steaming ahead on full speed with the legitimisation of the public looting described as so-called allowances.  Whilst many in the developed world are prioritising and making conscious attempts to live within their means we seem to see profligacy as a virtue.

This is demonstrated by the budgeted recurrent expenditure of N2.425 trillion and capital N1.147 trillion.  We spend more on salaries, pensions and allowances than on developing our nation and much of it is money we simply do not have.  It is clear that we are living beyond our means and the profligacy must stop.  We believe the priority of all organs of government must be to address this and the recently signed budget must be reviewed with a supplementary version provided to the newly convened National Assembly, which should engage with certain key questions:

What institutions need to be optimised and what budgetary expenditure needs to be curtailed or removed?

What represents genuine investment as opposed to recurrent expenditure?

The role of the Federal Executive Council (the cabinet) in expending its time and functions on adjudicating upon every detailed contract of government expenditure needs a review.

How do we prioritise capital expenditure investment infrastructural maintenance over recurrent expenditure?

How do we prioritise the governmental agencies from the customs to the immigrations in attracting inward foreign investments?

How do we return to a balanced budget, where we only spend what we generate?

A roadmap to return us to a sustainable policy, which allows us to save for the future when revenue diminishes.

We also appreciate the task of restoring financial sanity to our budget making process does not belong to the executive alone.  The National Assembly and in particular the opposition has a role to play.  The CPC can live up to its claim of being incorruptible and different from the PDP and the rest by calling upon its own legislators to reject all the unaffordable amounts of money dressed up as allowances and specifying where such savings gained from their noble actions might be invested in.

Above all, the long suffering citizens of Nigeria should identify their own legislator and petition them to reject such unnecessary allowances, demonstrating we are all in this together.

Dr. Olu Ojedokun writes on behalf of The Nigerian Front.

Signed by the following Representatives of The Nigerian Front:
Mr. Remi Jibowu, Dr. Onochie Okoye, Alh Ismaila Zakari, Prince Asuquo Ibok, Mr. Bashar Dankaro and Dr. Olu Ojedokun