The Senate Committee on Niger Delta Monday rejected the 2020 Budget of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, for omitting major ongoing projects in its Capital Appropriation.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, however asked the committee to appear before the panel next Monday to show how far they have reflected the Ministry’s budget.

Senator Nwaoboshi gave the directive during a budget defence session of the ministry in Abuja.
The Senator representing Delta North insisted that with the oversight function carried out in the ministry, it was realised that the bane of the ministry was abandoned projects littered all over the nine states.

He said: “There is no state; I dare to say that there is no local government where there are no abandoned projects in the Niger Delta.

“We cannot continue like that. With all the abandoned projects in the Niger Delta and we are talking about new projects; these new projects are designed to fail.

“Honourable Minister, we need to look at this budget again and we expect you to do your cleanup because the document we needed were not supplied to us.”

He warned that the habit were “we have proliferation of abandoned projects cannot continue.”

According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari has not commissioned any completed project executed by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs in the last four years.

In his contribution, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe noted that the Ministry’s budget is an “uncommon budget.”

“When a budget is designed to fail it is uncommon,” Abaribe said.

https://thenationonlineng.net/senate-rejects-ministry-of-niger-deltas-budget/?

Proper probe of that ministry will bring sanity and development to ND, the ministry has been useless to the oil producing state in the past.

Our thinking for many decades, even as teenager(s) : Niger Delta region should be one of the best if not the best region in the whole of Africa assuming our government have been doing things right, pre democracy and when our denocracy started in 1999.
The best schools, best hospitals, best ports, best everything should be in Niger Delta region for real,
while they spread it to other region all over the nation from there.
This is where over half of what we depend on as a nation comes from.
You protect and guide where you are making your money from.
But our leaders and Niger delta leaders have only been after their personal pockets.
There is one of their leader that disappeared since 2015 after collecting BILLIONS from the Jonathan just to secure the pipelines, another one used our money to go established a university in a neighboring country!
There is another one that was jailed in the UK few years ago!
A big shame.

May Ken Saro-Wiwa's soul continue to rest in perfect peace.
We pray he won't die in vain for his people.

We rise!

kayusely70:
But both of them have been in the senate for long why now? But then better late than never.

Why now?!
Simply Because a New Sheriff is in town!

It is no more business as usual!

ManirBK:
Proper probe of that ministry will bring sanity and development to ND, the ministry has been useless to the oil producing state in the past

Seconded.
You've said it all sir!
God bless you.
God bless Niger Delta.
God bless Nigeria.

Ok. It is noted.

Good job by the committee. Hope they will continue this probe judiciously to a logical conclusion. The corruption under NDDC is actually too much. They are the Commander-in-Chief of abandoned projects in ND.

Also you have to pay officials of NDDC some money to get their attention in fixing roads sometimes. This is unacceptably wrong as they will still use government money to execute the projects


Before you quote me sha.... remember NDDC is still under MNDA

Once they get their share ..ehhh case close.who do we offend in this country?

Way to go.

all other ministry should be checked very well

Watching and keeping my fingers crossed

na dem sabi

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People who are familiar with operation of Senate Committees during budget defence will be familiar with scenario that is contained in the report.

Fact: Nothing is fundamentally wrong with budget proposal submitted. The noise is about take home.
Senators Nwaoboshi, Abaribe and some other members of this senate committee are the same senators who oversighted past Niger Delta Ministry budgets over the years that gave rise to uncompleted projects inspite huge money budgeted.

Tip: If you follow the big grammar or the argument, you will miss the road. But if you follow the money, you will get to the destination.

ManirBK:
Proper probe of that ministry will bring sanity and development to ND, the ministry has been useless to the oil producing state in the past

you nor lie at all.

Just imagine... and you wonder where and how the likes of Ned Nwoko and co. got their stolen wealth... NONSENSE...

They need to purge everything about that region, I swear! Their leaders are just so corrupt!

All na talk, no action go follow am. Business will continue as usual...

Feeding the media with lies

That was super epic coming from Senator Abaribe... "Uncommon Budget AKA Akpabio"

Very good development. They should be probed.

akpabio with his frienimies

What do you think? A man who decamped to APC with the charges suspended. How else can they recover election expenses? It is the standard practice of our politicians. Abandon old projects, start endless new ones to make plenty of money to fill their pockets.

But both of them have been in the senate for long why now? But then better late than never.

PNomsule:
That was super epic coming from Senator Abaribe... "Uncommon Budget AKA Akpabio"

He seems to be always on point..nice move..

And just where are the "we Niger deltans" how come its still that Igbo man that is fighting for you. A Biafra man that took a " made in Nigeria, assembled by Buhari" terrorist on bail. Today the same man is telling you how they are programming your budget of failure. How come non of your senators has stood up for you. Same way the 13% oil money you Eat was fought And won by Ojukwu at Abacha conference in 1995

The best thing that will ever happen in human history is to divide this country peacefully, Nigeria can't work it's too late to convince us.

kayusely70:
But both of them have been in the senate for long why now? But then better late than never.

Why now?!
Simply Because a New Sheriff is in town!

It is no more business as usual!

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Our thinking for many decades, even as teenager(s) : Niger Delta region should be one of the best if not the best region in the whole of Africa assuming our government have been doing things right pre democracy and when our denocracy started in 1999.
The best schools, best hospitals, best ports, best everything should be in Niger Delta region for real while they spread it to other region all over the nation from there.
This is where over half of what we depend on as a nation comes from.
You protect and guide where you are making your money from.
But our leaders and Niger delta leaders have only been after their personal pockets.
There is one of their leader that disappeared since 2015 after collecting BILLIONS from the Jonathan just to secure the pipelines, another one used our money to go established a university in a neighboring country!
A big shame.

May Ken Saro-Wiwa's soul continue to rest in perfect peace.
We pray he won't die in vain for his people.

We rise!


Why now?!
Simply Because a New Sheriff is in town!

It is no more business as usual!

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mxpinky:
Feeding the media with lies

Get sense NOW dis boy!