Nigerians have taken to the social media to condemn President Buhari’s excessive spending plan in the 2016 budget as details of the budget breakdown filtered into the public on Tuesday.
Using the hashtag: #BudgetOfYams, Nigerians are raising concerns over planned government spending coming at a time the President had severally lamented that Nigeria is broke.
Below are some top tweets from the hashtag:
Judge for yourself Nigerians. Time is telling. They’re only interested in our yams #BudgetOfYams pic.twitter.com/YeFW3sbGBL
— GOD Bless Nigeria (@AriyoAristotle) December 30, 2015
2014: Purchase of Vehicles =70,000,000 2015: Purchase of Vehicles =100,000,000 2016: Purchase of Vehicles =400,190,000 (SGF) #BudgetOfYams
— High_Elf_of_Igala (@countfreemont) December 30, 2015
#BudgetOfYams Cable to Drivers Room= N300m This must be that GLO cable that runs thru Oceans. https://t.co/QgmMBzcvr1
— Ebube D Statesman (@akaebube) December 30, 2015
This #BudgetOfYams carry white Yam, red Yam, cocoyam, water Yam and last last Yam leg. Nigerians… We are in trouble
— Brave (@LadyMacbethh89) December 30, 2015
@fransysok 39b NAIRA for the president as against 12.2b in 2014 and 6.6b in 2015 #BudgetOfYams #BuhariLovesYams pic.twitter.com/GsfCHP12E8
— PDP Youth (@dynamicpdp) December 30, 2015
JUDGE! N3.6bn for BMW cars in 2016 – #BudgetOfYams Less than 1 year & Buhari is tired of his Mercedes-Maybach S600 pic.twitter.com/qlQDOoIwV4”
— BISITALKA (@Bisitalka) December 30, 2015
Oga,Plenty Nigerians are angry with Our Budget,& Our Rice Change agents are sleeping,Bcos #BudgetOfYams is trending pic.twitter.com/mM0NbWLQNZ
— ᵟᵒᵑᵗ ᵍᶤᵛᵋ ᵅ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ (@iamtaofeek) December 30, 2015
BLIND followers is the reason Nigeria will not move forward. Aggrieved Thieves formed APC & they became saints only to present #BudgetOfYams
— ᵟᵒᵑᵗ ᵍᶤᵛᵋ ᵅ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ (@iamtaofeek) December 30, 2015
Same Buhari that drank sachet beverage now wants to eat over N4 million in a day. #BudgetOfYams pic.twitter.com/kf2UuxlKdI
— GLAM UP (@JackieUko) December 30, 2015
“@Kennethgbo: N11.4m for news papers?… And the man can’t even read… #BudgetOfYams“cant he read dem online?” pic.twitter.com/SKtAFVuz2w
— Otunba (@D_CEO_) December 30, 2015
They are spending huge money on websites cars yams and Christmas trees and they say no money in the country. #BudgetOfYams
— mr victor ikpeba (@mrvictorikpeba) December 30, 2015
The almighty formula used for deriving petrol price and budget for 2016. @osekita #BudgetofYams. pic.twitter.com/awok09oDud
— WALEOLA (@EMIOLAWALEOLA) December 30, 2015
Looking at the #BudgetOfYams we can conclude that President @MBuhari is not in fully in charge of his administration.
— olori (@aunty_ifeoma) December 30, 2015
Apparently @mtnngr had a sneek peek into #BudgetOfYams and refused to pay the FINE; seeing that “it would end in the belly of the Goats!”
— #fbablogs (@favourafolabi) December 30, 2015
Purchase of health/medical equipment for State House Clinic = N3,219,555,017. N3bn Is it 4 entire hospitals in Nigeria? #BudgetOfYams
— Adeyanju Deji (@adeyanjudeji) December 30, 2015
So linking of cable to drivers restroom at the villa admin will cost N322,421,971. I’m an Engineer and no golden cable exist #BudgetOfYams
— Otunba Babalola (@J_flicks) December 30, 2015
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