THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), IS UNDER SEIGE: NIGERIANS MUST RESIST THE AFFRONT!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 298. 28th April, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), IS UNDER SEIGE: NIGERIANS MUST RESIST THE AFFRONT!

There can be no better time than now for all Nigerian compatriots to rise in unison as OMBUDSMAN, to protect the TSA common patrimony from desperate and vicious human predators who are bent on destroying the economic gains of the ruling APC Administration in its FIRST TERM
Since the PDP lost woefully at the last general elections, its wounded parliamentary political office holders had devised all available strategies to execute LAST MINUTE attacks on the TREASURY through both: (1) The 2019 Budget Padding and (2) Execution of Budget during Procurement Process;  since the headships of both National Assembly  (NASS), Chambers are still illegitimately and criminally held by Senator 'Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who were the arrowheads of the infamous LEGISLATIVE COUP of 2015, which held the Executive by the jugular right from their kangaroo inauguration of 9th June, 2015!
Their latest plot was to tacitly delay the 2019 Budget as they did to the 2018 Document which was delayed for SEVEN months before the President was forced to sign it in order to avoid any delay in the implementation of the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP). On Wednesday 24th April, 2019, at plenary, the Senate again postponed the passage of the N 8.83 trillion 2019, Budget proposals to Tuesday, 30th April, 2019, when the 8th National Assembly would have just about 38 days to wind up!
The same prank was played by these opportunists in government in 2017, when the Budget Bill was signed into law on JUNE 12, by the Vice President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, (SAN), who complained bitterly about the delay and the paddings through illegal insertions, re-writing, re-inventing, cutting of allocations to critical infrastructures in order to increase their fake Constituency Project Allowances and thereby making the original document very difficult to implement!

PRESIDENT BUHARI MADE THE FOLLOWING REMARKS AT THE DELAYED 2018 BUDGET SIGNING CEREMONY!
"The logic behind the Constitutional direction that budget should be proposed by the executive is that, it is the Executive that knows and defines its policies and projects.
Unfortunately that has not been given much regard in what has been sent to me. The National Assembly made cuts amounting to 347 billion Naira in the allocations to 4,700 projects submitted to them for consideration and introduced 6,403 projects of their own amounting to 578 billion Naira.
"Many of the projects cut are critical and may be difficult, if not impossible to implement with the reduced allocation. Some of the new projects inserted by National Assembly have not been properly conceptualized, designed and costed and will therefore be difficult to execute.
"Furthermore many of these new projects introduced by the National Assembly have been added to the budgets of most MDAs with no consideration for institutional capacity to execute them or the incremental recurrent expenditure that may be required, etc."

IF THIS IS NOT PADDING, THEN WHAT IS IT?
The brazen legislators made cuts from masses-beneficial strategic infrastructure projects as follows: Counterpart-funding for the Manbilla Power Plant; Second Niger Bridge/ancillary roads; * The East-West Road, Bonny-Bodo Road; Lagos-Ibadan Express Way and; Itakpe-Ajaokuta Rail Project, were cut by an aggregate of N11.5 billion Naira. Others are, some ongoing critical infrastructure projects in the FCT, Abuja, especially major arterial roads and the mass transit rail project, cut by a total of N 7.5 billion Naira.
Cuts in the Health and Education Sectors amounted to N7.45 billion Naira and N 3 billion respectively. In the National Housing Sector, an amount of 8.7 billion Naira was cut, while 70 new road projects  have been inserted into the budget of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing by appropriating some of the additional funds expected from their upward review of the Oil price benchmark from USD $45 to $51 dollars and AN INCREASE IN NASS BUDGET OF 125 BILLION TO 139.5 BILLION NAIRA WITHOUT ANY DISCUSSION WITH THE EXECUTIVE! HABA, HABA, HABA!!!!!

ASIWAJU AHMED 'BOLA TINUBU'S ALLEGATIONS OF 2019 PADDINGS BY OUT-GOING NASS!
All Progressives Congress (APC), National Leader, Chief 'Bola Tinubu has publicly alleged that the out-going NASS members of hatching some plan to pad the 2019 Budget Estimates for illicit gains! According to him, Saraki and Dogara and their ilk, hijacked the national budget process in the past four years and repeatedly sought to pad them with pet projects to the detriment of the average person who should benefit from well-intended capital projects! He advocated that a repeat of their malign control of NASS must never be repeated
Expectedly, both men have denied: FIRST - SARAKI, who said through his spokesperson that Tinubu should withdraw the allegations which they consider as careless, irresponsible and callous and also requested him to substantiate the issue of regular budget padding by NASS. He also said that Tinubu who served as a Senator for 22 months - though under a military regime - should know how the legislature worked.

THEN - DOGARA , who said that Tinubu's assertions were in pursuit of fascist agenda to control all levels of power in Nigeria, because only an ignorant person with dubious academic certificates would conclude that the author of a document padded a document which he alone could constitutionally draft!

WHAT HON. JIBRIN ABDUL MUMINI (FORMER CHAIRMAN APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE), CONFESSED ABOUT BUDGET PADDING!
When Hon. Jibrin Mummini, in 2016, AS AN INSIDER, exposed how budgets were padded annually to suit the whims and caprices of the legislators, he was very detailed and specific in his allegations with facts and figures about how much accrued to 10 principal officers, including the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, his Deputy 'Lasun Yusuf and himself! Though, he was maligned by the leadership which he accused and eventually suspended for 180 legislative days, he approached the court for redress, won, was recalled and paid all his salaries/allowances!

HOW CAN DOGARA AND SARAKI NOW DENY BUDGET PADDING? The responses of both men portray them as pathetic liars, who should neither represent the masses nor hold public offices at any level of government FOREVER!
OUTSIDE OF BUDGET PADDING, THESE INSATIABLE LEGISLATORS ALSO COLLECT HUMONGUS SALARIES/ALLOWANCES FOR NON-EXISTENT CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS!
SENATOR SHEHU SANNI EXPOSED ILLEGAL MONTHLY WORKING ALLOWANCE OF N13.5 MILLION APART FROM 15 OTHERS, WHICH HIS COLLEAGUES OF THE 8TH NASS COULD NOT DENY!

ALL CITIZENS - COMPATRIOTS, NGO'S & CSO'S - MUST RISE UP AS "WATCHMAN" OF THE TSA AND ALSO THE ILLEGAL SALARIES/ALLOWANCES OF ALL POLITICIANS/POLITICAL APPOINTEES - EXPOSE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH AND BLOW THE WHISTLE!
CODE OF CONDCT BUREAU (CCB), MUST WAKE UP AND ENFORCE THE ASSETS DECLARATION LAW, INSPECT, VET & SCRUTINIZE ALL CLAIMS AND MAKE THEM PUBLIC TO BLOCK ANTICIPATED CLAIMS BY ROUGISH POLITICIANS/APPOINTEES AND ALL PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS!
In addition to all of these suggestions, A BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION MUST BE CRAFTED BY THE LEGITIMATE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA, EARLY IN THE SECOND TERM, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SO-CALLED AMMENDMENTS OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, HAD FAILED AND HAVE COME TO NOTHING!
THE SENATE MUST BE SCRAPPED TO DESTROY ALL PRODIGALITY AND WASTAGES IN GOVERNMENT AND THIS 2019 SET OF SENATORS SHOULD BE THE LAST! Also the present number of 360 House of Representatives Members should be pruned to 74, should serve part-time and payed salaries according to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), recommendations!
This is the set time to put Nigeria back on a sound economic footing and register it among the 20 most-economical viable global nations by the year 2020! IT IS OUT COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY TO SALVAGE THIS PRECIOUS NATION FROM POLITICAL JOBBERS AND OPPORTUNISTS! A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE! "Righteousness exalts a nation, but SIN is a reproach to all people." (Proverbs 14:34).)

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