Which Country in the whole wide world can ever recover and grow with this kind of budget. Yet, some clowns would still come to defend this dubious acts from the Arch-Saint in Aso Rock who has succeeded in stealing our commonwealth by pretence……
The State House Headquarters budget for “Honorarium/
Sitting Allowance” is 556,592,736. Let me remind you that
the previous government budgeted 174,471,371 for same
item in 2015, while in 2016, this administration jacked it up
to 507,518, 861.
The State House Headquarters still continues to budget for
“Residential Rent.” This is something I have failed to
understand up till now and I wouldn’t mind someone
explaining it to me. That aside, the amount budgeted for
this “Residential Rent” in 2015 was 22,459,575, while in
2016 it was put at 27,735,643.
I don’t know how or why, but in the 2017 budget of
“Recovery and Growth,” this same “Residential Rent” went
up to 77,545,700. Whoever the Landlord of that State House
Headquarters is, in this economy, he must be a very lucky
and fortunate chap.
There is an 8,539,200 budget for “Anti-Corruption” and I’m
perplexed as to what exactly it is.
The last time there was a budget for “Motor Vehicles” or
anything like that was in the 2014 budget by the last
administration and it was a total of 132,200,000. This
government came in in 2016 and somehow concluded that
the State House Headquarters did not have enough “Motor
Vehicles,” so they started by budgeting 877,015,000 which
was something like a 650% increase from the 2014 budget
for the same item.
The State House Headquarters still doesn’t think there are
enough “Motor Vehicles,” so in 2017 they have budgeted a
total of 197,000,000 for the purchase of “Motor Vehicles”
and “Buses.” At this rate, by 2019, this government
would’ve succeeded in buying enough “Motor Vehicles” to
drive the entire country off the edge.
2016 will end up being one of the darkest years in this
country in relation to power supply. So, I do not
understand where the State House Headquarters got
megawatts from in 2016 that they have now budgeted
319,625,753 for “Electricity Charge” in 2017. Just so you
know, the “Electricity Charge” for 2016 was put at
45,332,433.
The 2016 State House Headquarters budget for the
“Rehabilitation/Repairs of Residential Buildings” was
642,568,122, while in 2017, I don’t know, but it looks like an
enormous asteroid managed to hit and destroy the
residential building at the State House Headquarters
because what is budgeted for “Rehabilitation/Repairs of
Residential Buildings” happens to be 5,625,752,757.
As usual, knowing that we have travelling President,
739,487,784 has been budgeted for “International Travel &
Transport.” Last year only the Vice President budgeted for
books. This year neither the President nor his Vice
budgeted for it. Apparently, they’re tired of reading.
Just like in last year’s budget, the entire capital budget for
the National Emergency Management Agency is for the
“Construction of Office Building,” all 374,473,456 of it.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has
budgeted 5,999,070,468 for the “Construction/Provision of
Office Buildings.” In 2016 they spent 58,434,683 on that. If
you do the math, that’s an increase of over 10,000% and
qualifies as an economic and financial crime.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission also
budgeted 230,536,000 for “Legal Services.” I don’t know if
this is enough, but since they say it is; and as long as none
of that amount goes to the case-bumbling, Twitter SAN,
Festus Keyamo, no wahala.
In 2016 the EFCC budgeted 93,136,000 for “Motor Vehicles,”
but since maybe the corruption they should be fighting has
gotten faster, they have upped that to 455,000,000. So if
you had a plan of running away from the EFCC, I am sorry,
they will have almost half a billion Naira worth of cars to
chase you with. It is a car race now you know.
There a line item in the EFCC budget that mentions the
“Procurement and Upgrade of Microsoft Product Licences”
which 142,237,198 was set aside for. This is as vague as
something can get, and when it comes to corruptly
enriching yourself, being vague is the best bet.
In 2016 3,260,000 was budgeted by the EFCC for the
“Purchase of Photocopiers” while in the 2017 budget
13,755,000 is the magic number.
1,100,595,088 has been budgeted for the “Furnishing of the
New Head Office” whose construction cost in the 2016
budget was put at 7,912,502,911. Now, guess what. There is
a budget for the “Consultancy of the Head Office Project”
and 244,727,624 is budgeted for it. I am sorry; you will
have to guess what again.
Let me not stress you, 4,583,616,838 is budgeted for the
“Completion of Ongoing New Head Office Building
Construction” which 7,912,502,911 was budgeted for in
2016, bringing the total to 12,496,119,749. For those of you
that numbers scare, that is over twelve billion Naira for the
construction of the EFCC new head office. If the budget for
the “Furnishing” of same building is taken into
consideration, it becomes almost fourteen billion Naira.
That is the anti-corruption model; build a fourteen billion
Naira edifice to scare corrupt individuals and firms.”
