Sentences with phrase «for white elephant projects»

While Fayemi spent the bond money for infrastructure development of the state, including major roads, street lightening, school renovation, government lodge / office, a civic centre, the Ikogosi warm spring resort and Ire Burnt Bricks Company, among others; Fayose had opted for white elephant projects including an airport and a flyover.

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It's a remarkable turnaround for a controversial project that some critics dubbed a white elephant after the Liberal government sunk $ 395 million into the «discovery district» hub over the years.

For example, we found that voters in Croatia tend to favour «white elephant» projects and «bridges to nowhere.»

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

The authors go on to illustrate that the remaining 20 cents of loan monies are used to finance white elephant projects, «ghost» projects» (i.e. fictitious roads, schools, soldiers, etc.), government salaries, ineffective development and infrastructural projects or it leaves the country through capital flight within the coming years — leaving little to nothing of actual development monies for the citizenry of these countries.

The President lauded Governor Lalong for continuing with the projects abandoned by previous administrations, noting that this has saved the state from white elephant projects and assured that the federal Government will speed up refunds on Federal works executed by the state.

«Fayose will surely account and pay back every penny he and his family took from Ekiti coffers through his white elephant projects, and for the first time, he will know that Ekiti people are no fools that he calls them.»

Going after China on the facts would be like attacking their ideal society, a repressed, corrupt, draconian, fake, hollow, even deeper in debt, and addicted to creating an endless parade of major white elephant projects, and environmental destruction on an epic scale, where they send an invoice to a familly for the cost of the bullet they use to execute your protesting relatives.

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