Peace Corps Bill: There's Money For Cattle Colonies But No Money For Peace Corps - Reno Omokri

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Peace Corps Bill: There's Money For Cattle Colonies But No Money For Peace Corps - Reno Omokri 

Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday berated President Muhammadu Buhari for rejecting the Peace Corps bill.

The United States based pastor blasted Buhari for saying there was no money to fund the Corps but is allegedly trying to fund the establishment of cattle colonies.

In a tweet, Omokri wrote: “The same President Buhari that wants Nigeria to use public funds to build cattle colonies for his Fulani kinsmen is the same President Buhari who rejected the Peace Corp Bill because he says there’s no money. There‘s money for cattle colony, but no money for peace. Well done sir!”

Recall that Buhari had on Tuesday, in a letter, cited security concerns as reasons for withholding assent to the bill seeking to establish Peace Corps.

But reacting to Buhari’s rejection of the bill, the Corps Commandant, Dickson Akoh alleged that the same people who “fought” the Peace Corps bill prior to its passage by the National Assembly advised the President against giving assent to the bill.

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The Abandoned Ajaokuta Steel Plant Proof Of Bad Governance - Reps Speaker

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The Abandoned Ajaokuta Steel Plant Proof Of Bad Governance - Reps Speaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday said the abandonment of the Ajaokuta steel plant which has gulped over $5.1 billion dollars over the years was an expressive metaphor of ineptitude and bad governance.

In his words, ‘To our collective shame, the present state of Ajaokuta steel complex is more of an expressive metaphor of our ineptitude and bad governance over the years’.

He said he was dismayed February 12, this year when he visited the steel complex in company of members of the House Committee on Steel.

‘I dare to say that the visit was an eye-opener. The plant has an installed capacity of 1.3 million tons P/A with provision to increase capacity to 2.6 million tons and further to 5.2 million tons per annum. The first phase of the complex is 98% completed with 40 of the 43 units already installed’.

He affirmed that the federal government has invested over $5.1 billion into the complex.

During his visit, the speaker found out that the complex has a complete internal standard gauge rail track of approximately 68kms.

‘Out of 10,000 housing units targeted in the first phase, about 3,500 units are completed and have been occupied since the 1980s, while the rest were abandoned at various stages of completion’.

‘The complex has two power plants with total installed capacity of 110MW of electricity which is more than enough to power the entire complex, the whole of Kogi and Edo States. The complex boasts of first class internal road networks. It is also linked to Warri by Standard gauge rail line and gas pipeline,” Dogara narrated.

Dogara made this revelations in plenary during the sectors debate of the house on major sectors of the economy with senior members of the federal executive council to help proffer legislative and policy solutions to existing national challenges.

The Speaker who was worried about the state of the project said when the projected is completed, ‘the Ajaokuta Steel plant has the capacity to generate about $1.7 billion per annum, employ over 10,000 engineers and technicians; employ over 10,000 other personnel; lead to the creation of over 2 million indirect jobs; increase Nigeria’s export earnings by over 1 billion USD yearly.”

He further assured that it would save over $15 billion USD worth of steel products imported into Nigeria annually if statistics from the NBS is anything to go by.

A visibly angry speaker thundered, ‘Imagine if there is any nation on this earth that will sink more than $5.1billion of its hard earned money on any project and walk away from it when it is 98% completed’.

He also wondered if this could be a national sabotage or bewitched by some powerful sorcerers.

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2019 Presidential Election: Buhari will Lose In Bauchi If - Nasiru Darazo

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2019 Presidential Election: Buhari will Lose In Bauchi If - Nasiru Darazo

President Muhammadu Buhari may risk Bauchi state’s cumulative votes if APC insists on giving the party’s governorship ticket to Governor Mohammad Abubakar in 2019 election.

According to DAILY POST, an APC chieftain, Alhaji Nasiru Darazo said that all strategies have been put in place to politically bury Abubakar’s second term, alleging huge failure of APC under the governor.

Darazo who is from the faction of speaker Yakubu Dogara and that of Dr Ibrahim Lame added that they will not spare anything in an effort to dislodge Abubakar during the primaries e in favour of Lame.

He boasted that Abubakar will surely be slapped by delegates within the APC for failing to redeem a promise of N3 million each to 20 LGAs.

The party chieftain lament that there is no any achievement in Bauchi state under Abubakar in spite of the huge allocation from the federal government

“I strongly advise the APC, President Buhari and the national working committee to heed my advice or risk our votes in Bauchi state because we cannot vote APC where Abubakar is eventually given governorship ticket ahead of 2019 election, ” added Darazo.

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