Nasir El-Rufai's Insightful Tweets About Government's Extravagant Spending, 2012 Budget, Fuel Subsidy And Goodluck Jonathan's Governance (MUST READ!)
The Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El-Rufai this morning relay his view on the state of the country, 2012 budget, President Goodluck Jonathan and fuel subsidy removal issues via twitter.
Below are his tweets:
FLASH News - FG sets aside N4 bn to bribe NLC & TUC leaders - Govt of corruption, for corruption, by corruption....sad!
Those giving economic arguments for or against fuel subsidy withdrawal miss the point totally. It is not about economics. It is about TRUST!
No Nigerian trusts GEJ's administration to use any money for the benefit of the people. Funds are for pocketing by govt officials & friends!
The spending pattern & priorities of GEJ since 2010 is evidence of who he cares for and what. Let us look at his budget record from 2010....
Between 2010-2011, GEJ has spent N9.557 trillion. N4,427bn in 2010 budget, N645bn supplementary in 2010, N4,485bn in 2011. The results? ZERO
Under his watch, we increased our debt stock by about $20bn, ran down excess crude from $6bn to zero, FX reserves from $45bn to $ 30bn...
Below are his tweets:
FLASH News - FG sets aside N4 bn to bribe NLC & TUC leaders - Govt of corruption, for corruption, by corruption....sad!
Those giving economic arguments for or against fuel subsidy withdrawal miss the point totally. It is not about economics. It is about TRUST!
No Nigerian trusts GEJ's administration to use any money for the benefit of the people. Funds are for pocketing by govt officials & friends!
The spending pattern & priorities of GEJ since 2010 is evidence of who he cares for and what. Let us look at his budget record from 2010....
Between 2010-2011, GEJ has spent N9.557 trillion. N4,427bn in 2010 budget, N645bn supplementary in 2010, N4,485bn in 2011. The results? ZERO
Under his watch, we increased our debt stock by about $20bn, ran down excess crude from $6bn to zero, FX reserves from $45bn to $ 30bn...
Under GEJ, Dollar exchange rate moved from >N140 to N160 today. Debt stock has doubled to higher than 2005 levels. Interest rates over 20%!
And all this is while nearly 10 trillion Naira has been spent on government officials, trips abroad & perquisites/subsidies to politicians!
Power supply improvement? Minimal. Jobs created? Zero. Transport Infrastructure? Zero. Agricultural output? Minimal. Private jets? Yes, lots
Let us look at the 2012 Budget proposals in some details to see whether GEJ is willing to reduce the high lifestyle of those in power.....
We will look at the budgets proposed for three Presidency MDAs - the State House where P & VP work, the Offices of the SGF & Head of Service
The three MDAs intend to spend a total of N27bn as "overheads" for 2012. Nearly N2 bn will be spent traveling with N1.675bn in GEJ's office!
Stationery, refreshment & snacks in the Presidency will consume about N2bn, with N1.6bn spent by GEJ & his VP in 2012. Does that make sense?
The President & VP intend to spent about N2.8bn to "maintain" their existing furniture, generators, etc, & N238m for fuel! Is this prudent?
Miscellaneous spending by the Villa alone totals N1.7bn for food, honorarium & something called "welfare packages" - another security vote!
The SGF & Head of Service have over N2.5bn for these "miscellaneous expenses" including nearly N300m for "welfare" & N270m "security vote"!
Why can't some of these areas of waste be cut to fund capital projects & others that benefit the populace like the fuel subsidy?
In the 2012 budget, NASS intends to spend N150bn on itself, the same amount as in 2011 to pay those huge allowances. It has NOT been reduced
So we will spend about N320m for every NASS member in 2012, as we did in 2011. Where is the shared sacrifice? Where is accountability?
In 2012, FG will spend an average of N2.47m on every federal employee. It spent about N3.2 m on every ex-militant in 2011. What about us?
We must resist the N8,000 tax being imposed on every man, woman & child to fund the fuel subsidy & insist that FG cuts its own wastefulness!
I will tweet further details of the budget in due course....we must sensitize our NASS members to rise to the occasion & rewrite this budget
The issue with GEJ is simply that of trust. He has wasted huge financial resources & put us in debt in the last 20 months. We must be wary!
We cannot trust with more money as he will only waste more of it. That is the issue & he can only earn that trust through small steps.




We are educated by El Rufai's tweet on how corrupt and unrealistic the Budget is. The fact is we Nigerian are coward, this situation call for a revolution like what we have witness in the Arab and North Africa. I agree with Dr Tunde Bakare in his You Tube piece that we Nigerians are idiots ruled by .....God-Knows who? We must wake up to our responsibilities to defend our nation.
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