JONATHAN: IMPLEMENT BUDGET OR FACE IMPEACHMENT
The resolution of the House of Representatives to the effect that President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, has the option to implement the 2012 Appropriation Budget to 100% by September or face impeachment, is endorsed by the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties {CNPP}
The resolution states that only 30% of the Budget has so far been executed by the Executive arm of government; it is therefore patriotic, germane and timely.
Conference of Political Parties joins the House of Representatives in calling for the expeditious implementation of the 2012 Budget; for over the years the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} led Federal Government of Nigeria has inspite of unprecedented Oil Revenue failed to advance the welfare of Nigerians, hence the Boko Haram insurgent, kidnapping and other social vices.
We are at a loss how the gross unemployment, dilapidated infrastructure and decadence of social services can be addressed without implementation of the Budget.
Or is it the Boko Haram insurgent as President Jonathan claimed that is distracting the government from implementing the Budget?
In its wisdom the government has pegged the Budget at $72 per barrel of Oil and the price of a barrel per day has been hovering between $90 and % $100, so there is no cogent reason to halt Budget implementation.
CNPP recalls with nostalgia how $43 billion saved in the Federation Account in the years preceding 2007 by ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo regime, under the same guise of non-implementation and pegging of budget was fleeced off; the outcome is decayed infrastructure and social paralysis.
Is it not a shame that during late General Sani Abacha’s regime when the Oil price hovered between $15 and $18 per barrel a day that the regime’s project profile execution towers above that of the government of the day?
Finally, we support the House Resolution, for the violation of the Appropriation Act, especially when the money is there, is tantamount to violation of the Social Contract between the government and the people. The House in its own enlightened self- interest must stand by the resolution; for the rumour making the rounds is that immediately the Hon. Members are settled they will drop the impeachment move.
Osita Okechukwu
National Publicity Secretary
CNPP
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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