princedede:

My brother I tire for Nigerians... We can't let PMB be fooling us like this...

denko:
Buhari should not divert Nigeria attention from his mess with this sentiments when did he started caring about 5%.

Polar3:


the bulk of the money funding the budget emanates from the ss and you dont expect them to keep mute at such retro action. And besides,do u think amaechi wudda've taken that action if the scenario was in da north?
Op,tuale4u and hopeathand are slamming the niger deltans for keeping mute over the removed rails that also benefits the sw states and here u are,slamming and accusing them of being sentimental cos they raised their voices over the scrapped maritime university..gosh,u guys got a big problem.

tuale4u:


Ok. Put it in d budget now. If they can sniff in other tins that was not in d original budget, what stop our senstors from putting dis important rail project.

please u are not making sense.

HopeAtHand:
They are all PDP senators. They wanted the Lagos-Calabar rail project out so that they can discredit Amaechi by saying he overlooked the Niger Delta. Their plan is to paint APC as a party that hates Niger Delta.

Their hate for Amaechi will kill all of them.

denko:
Buhari should not divert Nigeria attention from his mess with this sentiments when did he started caring about 5%.

TheGoodJoe:
All those asking what of the South West Senators are really not serious.

Amaechi came to Port-Harcourt and told the Rivers People that this project will benefit them. He highlighted how much jobs it would generate for people in the Niger Delta.

This same project left the budget and someone from the Niger Delta is asking why the Senators of the South South region allowed it to happen.

You guys are asking for South West Senators.

Haba.

We ask our Senators questions, not Senators from other regions.

Sen. Ben Bruce, drop the phone, stop twitting and look up. It also concerns your constituents.

Newbiee:
....
APC leaders must move now to help their President to succeed. This is not the time for blame games, this is not the time to point accusing fingers, this is not the time to look the other way. This is the time for collective responsibility and concrete action. Let us fire on all cylinders now that we have a budget. Let Nigeria become a huge construction site. Let the power sector work. Let petrol flow endlessly for now. Let us secure Nigeria. I know that the change but let it start now to manifest. No further, no excuses again.

Beremx:
when northern senators are united, our senators are "pulling down" themselves and thereby affecting the region. If it's because of Amaechi they did that, then they should all be ashamed of themselves.

denko:
The so called Item was never in the budget, how can you remove what is not in the budget. APC followers are really Zombies

menxer:


Yours, right?

Who talks about funding a project that is not in the budget?

Who would you expect to protect the interest of the SS, SW senators, right?

The SS needs that project more and it behoves the SS senators to push for it.

aresa:




This is the problem with them, they spend more time worrying about other people and never themselves and their own issues..

This is what you get when tribalism and bigotry is your favorite past time and never your own well being.

Polar3:


what has the se gotta do with this now? Besides,is it not a LAGOS-calaber project? Is'nt the sw also a beneficiary? You will all die from ur hatred from the se and ss.

TheGoodJoe:



Amaechi did not scrap the Maritime Academy. There is not enough money for a new one, so he chose to expand the one at Oron.

Maybe you have not noticed the country is short of Money and we can not carry out such a project.

Instead if scrapping it, Amaechi decided to expand to achieve the same thing. That is brilliant and a good thing.

On the other hand, the railway project is another project that will benefit the Niger Delta.

The Senators decided to remove it and keep that from Lagos to Kano.

If the South West Senators want it or not is not the issue here. The issue here is that we in the South South want it and our Senators were mute.

Amaechi is still going on with the expansion of the Oron site to achieve the Maritime University. What were the Senators of the South South planning when they kept mute?

Demainman1:


Let me honour you with an answer by asking you a question.

Did each region always fight for their allocation in the budget?

The original issue is, Lagos-calabar rail was not in the padded budget so the question of it been removed is an APC propangada

adconline:

How about SW senators? Isn't Lagos more likely to benefit than other states??

emmykk:


let assume the project was remove by nigerdelta senators what was sw senators doing or are they not going to benefit from the project too?

Polar3:


i repeat,if it was in the north,amaechi wud never dare scrap it to expand another..he wont dare..there aint funds for the maritime sch,but there are funds for other projects and lest i forget, theres fund to import grass from brazil to feed fulani malu....i laff @ ur ignorance of northern and southern nigeria politics.

HopeAtHand:



A few days to the last re-run election in Rivers, Amaechi came on air in PH and talked briefly about the Lagos-Calabar rail project and its benefits for the NDelta region. How it was going to commence shortly and create employment. He talked with glee how APC-led FG planned to employ about 500,000 NDelta youths through that alone.

We know that almost all NDelta Senators and HoR members are PDP, and they arent happy that another party is planning to achieve what they couldn't, so they omitted it so as to blame APC in future.

I know how politcs is played in NDelta, even when detrimental to collective good. This my post isnt far from the truth.

tuale4u:
It is very pathetic and annoying that we have senators from Niger Delta and they allowed this injustice to be done to our region by thier Saraki loving senators.

We all know that almost all the senators from Niger Delta are PDP and are those who voted Saraki to be Senate president.

Yet this same senators could not fight for thier people to ensure a rail dat will benefit thier region is retained. They were asleep in the senate when Kano Senators ensured Lagos Kano rail is retained.

I weep for my senators and house of rep members. They are disgrace. They dont represent our people. They represent themselves. I am ashame of them.

You will be suprise many of them were not aware it was removed. Our Niger Delta Senators were busy flexing in Abuja, while nothern senators were busy working 4 thier people. Where was Senator Ben Bruce the twitter Senator? He needs to tweet about this.





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Buhari To Return 2016 Budget To NASS Over Missing Projects

*Lagos-Calabar N60 billion coastal railway removed
*Idu-Kaduna rail line cut by N8.7 billion
*Major federal roads slashed
*Polio eradication, essential drugs for HIV/AIDS expunged
*Agric/water resources re-allocated to constituency projects

https://www.nairaland.com/3039807/buhari-return-2016-budget-nass#44566185

Polar3:


i repeat,if it was in the north,amaechi wud never dare scrap it to expand another..he wont dare..there aint funds for the maritime sch,but there are funds for other projects and lest i forget, theres fund to import grass from brazil to feed fulani malu....i laff @ ur ignorance of northern and southern nigeria politics.

laprince:


You made sense at some point. However, in another way, the APC senators are the majority in the house. They could have opted for it to be retained in the budget. PDP, is a background voice there.

Besides, the way the budget was passed by the house was very disgraceful generally.

TheGoodJoe:


The Grass Project is for the Agriculture Ministry. They have their targets and goals. The Transport ministry have its targets and goals.

I doubt there is any politician that have done more work in the Niger Delta than Amaechi.

The Railway we are discussing now is close to Amaechi's heart. He is not the kind of person to take actions that will not benefit the Niger Delta people.

Any thing contrary to that is lies from PDP to generate hatred against Amaechi.

Let those PDP Senators and leaders tell us what they have done for Niger Delta more than Amaechi.

See Railway project leaving the Budget, they could not see.

aresa:



The North doesn't own the country, incompetent, lazy, shortsighted and unintelligent elected officials in other parts of the country makes it look that way.


The man aggitating for this project to take off and actually put money on the table to get it done is a northerner.

A southerner and son of the soil was in power for 5 years and he made zero effort to make it happen and in fact, he made zero effort to make anything happen.

This northerner puts his money where his mouth is, the son of the soil refused to put up federal money dor 2nd NB bridge and instead sold the project to JB to build and toll for 25 years, meaning the clueless people in his own region are going to pay for that bridge out of their own pocket.

The same son if the soil looked for money to do rail projects in the north, but refused to look for 1kobo to do anything foe his own people in the south and his always clueless and bigoted so called pillar of support in the SE.

Lagos calabar rail system is not only destined to debelop the region and boost the country's transportation system, but also create thousands of jobs along the way, but when was the last time anything was said by the senators and reps from that region in favor of this project and their own people back home.?

Ben Bruce spends more time on Twitter spewing unintelligent rubbish on Twitter than on the Senate floor looking out gor that region and his own people and the others are in Abuja just to collect salaries.


Please don't blame the North, blame your useless and worthless leaders im the south. Northerners care about your region more than your own useless leaders, even the 2nd nb was built by a northerner..

emorse:


Its funny how you can deduce someone's origin from his posts on a faceless forum.

A direct link to the commercial nerve centre of the country will open up business opportunities and increase economic activities. Movement of raw materials will become easier. As for the SW being a beneficiary, two wrongs can never make a right. That they kept quiet doesn't doesn't make the silence of the SS right.

Now to why I included the SE. SS and SS are next door neighbours more or less. Developments in the SS will have trickle effects in the SE. You might want to ask why I'm concerned. I want development for my people. We deserve to live the good life too.

These politicians that you seek to defend have accumulated so much that many generations to come in their lineage will never suffer whereas I lost an uncle on Monday because of inadequate medical care. If I have any hatred in my heart, its for those bloody thieves (both APC and PDP) who have robbed me and my family of the basics of life. And if you're one of them(political thieves), then I hate you too!

aresa:



The North doesn't own the country, incompetent, lazy, shortsighted and unintelligent elected officials in other parts of the country makes it look that way.


The man aggitating for this project to take off and actually put money on the table to get it done is a northerner.

A southerner and son of the soil was in power for 5 years and he made zero effort to make it happen and in fact, he made zero effort to make anything happen.

This northerner puts his money where his mouth is, the son of the soil refused to put up federal money dor 2nd NB bridge and instead sold the project to JB to build and toll for 25 years, meaning the clueless people in his own region are going to pay for that bridge out of their own pocket.

The same son if the soil looked for money to do rail projects in the north, but refused to look for 1kobo to do anything foe his own people in the south and his always clueless and bigoted so called pillar of support in the SE.

Lagos calabar rail system is not only destined to debelop the region and boost the country's transportation system, but also create thousands of jobs along the way, but when was the last time anything was said by the senators and reps from that region in favor of this project and their own people back home.?

Ben Bruce spends more time on Twitter spewing unintelligent rubbish on Twitter than on the Senate floor looking out gor that region and his own people and the others are in Abuja just to collect salaries.


Please don't blame the North, blame your useless and worthless leaders im the south. Northerners care about your region more than your own useless leaders, even the 2nd nb was built by a northerner..

emorse:






Two wrongs don't make a right! Question is, will it benefit our people. If yes, then friggin fight for it! Would they have kept quiet if it affected their pockets?

This APC vs PDP war should be between the political elites not you and I. Am assuming you're not politicians.

amakenny:


Spurious!!

Amaechi can't build standard gauge rail from PH to Lagos on such most unforgiving land terrain between PH and Lagos.

It's all a ruse of plans are on the pipeline for standard gauge rail line from Niger delta area to Lagos. The ruse of plans are on the pipeline shall remain while standard gauge rail lines are completed in to join the north and the southwest regions many decades to come.

East-West road from Niger delta area to Lagos which was started on an unforgiving terrain can't be competed many decades after it was started, talk less a standard gauge rail line on the same terrain.
Nigeria is full of deceptions and tricks.