EXCLUSION OF THE SOUTH EAST FROM THE RAILWAY MASTERPLAN…
ABARIBE SPITS FIRE IN THE SENATE.
It was a charged atmosphere today in the Senate during the consideration of the request sent in by President Buhari to borrow 5.8 Billion Dollars from the China Exim Bank to finance some critical railway projects across the country.
When proceedings started, a visibly angry Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP ABIA) in his motion, drew the attention of the Senate to the fact that from the document before them which outlined the projects to be financed with the loan, no single rail project in the entire South East was included.
The Senator wondered why a whole region will be excluded from such key development while every other region benefited.
Senator Abaribe who is the Chairman of the South East Senate Caucus described the situation as unfortunate and a deliberate attempt to frustrate development in the South East calling on the Senate to roundly reject the request for the loan until the anomaly is corrected and the South East included.
Senator Gbenga Ashafa (APC LAGOS) countered Abaribe and said that since government is a continuum, the South East should be patient and wait for another time. This sparked a heavy row in the Senate as majority of the Senators shouted down their Lagos colleague.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki agreed with Abaribe and stated that it was wrong to exclude any region from such heavy project. He pledged to lead a delegation of the Senate Leadership to meet with Presidency officials to sort out the issue.
In the meantime, consideration of the loan has been stood down while the Senate agreed with Abaribe to summon Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi to come and provide explanations for this mischievous exclusion

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I don't trust all the South Eastern senators.. They are all cowards and after their own pockets.

The only Igbo senators I will forever respect are

Senator Chuba Okadigbo

The worst of them all are Sen Mao Ohuabunwa and Sen T A Orji.

Very soon, Mali would become a better country compared to Nigeria. Do you know the reason? We have refused to tell ourselves the truth that this semi unitary system where development perverses from the centre to each units is highly susceptible and is the basis for diffidence and tensions...

I stand with Federalism

Senator Andy Ubah remains the undisputable worst senator in history of Ananbra state..,. while the church is busy giving him accolades.

Mchew! Always dragging us back, if they like, let them close national assembly.
We are not ripe for democracy sef

Everything na lobbying,when that rail budget was being prepared other senators where lobbying while the south east senators where busy looking for faults in it and shouting up and down that the budget is dead on arrival,that was how the abokis removed calabar Lagos rail and nobody noticed it because they never wanted anything to do with the vegetable...politics involves scheming and that's it

I don't need no fraud....I don't need no drama