Phillips Enejoh wrote: Can we really ve peace with this type of - TopicsExpress

Phillips Enejoh wrote: Can we really ve peace with this type of budget? “74 per cent is what was provided as recurrent expenditure in 2011 when this administration came in. In 2013, it went down to 71, now we have gone back to 74. How many people are going to enjoy the recurrent expenditure? “What we are saying is that only about 13 per cent is going to the masses of this country. How do you create jobs and alleviate poverty, the people must be at the centre. They should be at the centre of the implementation of the budget. “We cannot have peace when we spend much of our funds on ourselves. We have to spend the bulk of our funds on the people so that everybody will have something to do and everybody would be safe. Yar’Adua also said the budget “does not worth the paper on which it was written because it does not hold anything for the common man. Everything in the budget is for the political class, for the rich and the bureaucrat.” Meaning: Irrespective of what the Jonathans government says about his intentions. There can never be any transformation or meaningful impact when 3 out of every 4 naira spent by the government is on Federal politicians and bureaucrats who are less than 1% of the population, while only 1 of every 4 naira is spent on the over 99% remaining populace! It is like using a finger to drop a droplet of water inside a thirsty mans mouth. It wont have any impact!