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Governor Peter Mbah of Ebonyi State has called on the Federal Government to include the state in the disbursement of the 13 per cent of the oil revenue share.
The governor said the call was in tandem with the Derivation Principle as provided for in the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
Mbah made the call on Wednesday when he received the Indices and Disbursement Committee of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, at the Government House, Enugu.
Recall that the RMAFC had in December 2022 listed Enugu as an oil-producing state.
Meanwhile, receiving the RMAFC team in his office, Mbah regretted that the state had yet to receive 13 per cent of the revenues accruing to it from the affected oil fields.
Mbah said, “We still have this pending issue of Enugu State being recognised as an oil-producing state, which your Office actually communicated to us sometime in December 2022, based on the report of the Inter-agency Technical Committee.
“The Committee came up with a recommendation that Enugu should benefit from the 13 per cent derivation of the Anambra River Basin 1, Anambra River Basin 2, and Anambra River 3.
He said his government was not relenting , as it was mobilising internal revenue sources, growing the state’s Internally Generated Revenue by over 400 per cent by broadening the revenue sources and deploying technology to block leakages.
Continuing, “It is our hope that your indices also would be updated to reflect that much growth in our domestic revenue.
We hope to actually surpass that. Our IGR in our 2025 budget is over 500 billion and from the indications, we are going to surpass that projection,” Mbah stressed.
Earlier, the leader of the team and Commissioner representing Kwara State at RMAFC, Mr Ismaila Agaka, appreciated Mbah for the proper utilisation of federal allocations and IGR to transform the state in a short period.
He said the RMAFC team was in Enugu State to monitor the disbursements from the Federation Account to Enugu State.
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