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Solomon Dalung, Nigeria’s Minister for Youths and Sports Development, has explained that no human is above mistake hence, the error he made by saying spended when he actually meant to say ‘expended’.

While Nigerians were still grappling with his confession that his ministry didn’t make provisions for the Super Falcons simply because he hadn’t thought they could win, his latest gaffe has to do with grammatical blunder — the sort that could make his child in the Junior Secondary School wonder who is correct between daddy and his teacher!

In a video which was posted by Channels Television some days ago, the sports minister in a desperate effort to deny corruption allegations brought against his ministry, said:

“The funds spended were properly spended because we got them from intervention funds from Mr. President.”

A grammatical slip which set the internet on fire.e it lightly condemned the minister for lack of competence, while others described the error as ‘shameful’.
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Responding to the harsh criticism, Solomon Dalung took to his Facebook foundation page to thank his critics, insisting that no one is above mistakes.
“Expended was the word intended. Flip-flops are part of human nature, anyone can, anyone does and that’s what reminds us even deeper of our humanness. Thank you for the observations.”

It is actually a well-known fact that we all are subject to making a slip of the tongue but when one person falls victim of grammatical errors too often then…. This is not the first time the minister had been under fire for such error.

Recall that in August, while trying to defend coach Samson Siasia and the Dream Team VI’s predicament ahead of the Olympics, Dalung mistakenly referred to Nigeria as ‘United States of Nigeria’. He had said:

“Our U-23 team are suffering in the United States of Nigeria.”


SOURCE: https://www./gist/3668-i-wanted-to-say-expended-not-spended-dalung-clarifies-i-wanted-to-say-expended-not-spended-dalung-clarifies.html

What r u high on Dalung?

What

No be only expended, na espended.

No wahala. The deed has been done already. it's called a grammatical blunder. It happens to most of us. We were just surprised that blunders could come from people in Buhari's Government cos we were told ya'll were saints.

English (Bekee) bu agbara!
English is a borrowed language...

nah our fault say you no finish school ?

This is not the last we will hear from this weed head.

you are incompetent!

the gbagaun was well gbagaunded.....


unto the nxt one

Assuming but not conceeding and replacing d words: "the funds expended were not properly expended" , still doesnt make sense.

FSBoperator:
This is not the last we will hear from this weed head.

As in, expect a lot of comedic gbagauns till 2019

Barney11:
you are incompetent!

There will be a cabinet reshuffle in 2017. Dalung is out, and he knows it, Communication minister is also out

Na dat red cap be him problem

Solomon Dalung, Nigeria’s Minister for Youths and Sports Development, has explained that no human is above mistake



Exactly, no one is above mistake that why we can't wait for 2019 to correct the mistake.

So you wan say "The funds expended were properly expended because we got them from intervention funds from Mr. President.” Guy you no sabi english full stop.

Whether u wanted to or didn't "wanted to", what matters is that "gbagaun" came out wen u spoke. Even wat u wanted to say is still anoda "gbagaun". Dat was how many ppl wanted "Change" and "gbagaund "

This man is a clown....dalung and shepopotamous really match eachother

Oh shut up Dalung!!!! #DaftCunt

Dalung always looking high

k

Campaign after election.

We don hear yhu sir

All Hail Silvester Stallone. Minister of the Expendables.

Lilimax:
English (Bekee) bu agbara!
English is a borrowed language...

doctokwus:
Assuming but not conceeding and replacing d words:
"the funds expended were not properly expended" , still doesnt make sense.

May be he wanted to say, the money expended is well spended

This man can lie sha......Even if you remove 'spended' and replace it with expended in the sentence, my brother and sister does it still make any sense??.......Smh for u

I thought the guy is a lawyer.

What you wanted to said is well saided..dont worry.

Expended || spended
E(s)pended

He meant EXPENDABLES

rayblast:
What r u high on Dalung?

Dalung is high on Dung.