The Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan and his Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, jointly denied his state of about N10bn in four years.

He said the sum was an estimate of what could have accrued to his state if the past administration had been faithful in remitting taxes paid by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria into the Consolidated Federation Account the same way the present administration did.

Oshiomhole spoke with State House correspondents shortly after he and former governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The governor claimed that if the $1.6bn NLNG tax that Buhari used as bailout for states had come during Jonathan’s administration, it would have gone the same way it had been going without states benefitting.

He said he was happy with Buhari because he made it clear that he would stop impunity and fragrant disobedient of law and order.

Oshiomhole said, “All the noise that have been generated over what happened last week, there was nothing extraordinary. What was extraordinary is that the NLNG has over the years been remitting funds to the Federal Government but the government illegally refused to transfer these funds to the Consolidated Revenue Fund which belongs to the three tiers of government.

“All that President Buhari has done is to, in line with his commitments to ensuring that all funds and money accruing to the Federation Account are remitted, that he has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to transfer the funds to the consolidated funds. “Our commissioners along with federal officials met last week to share those funds in line with the revenue allocation formula. If this money had come under the last administration, it will have gone the same way as in previous years.

“The NLNG is not starting fresh to remit. It has been doing that every year plus taxes paid by, I think Shell, amounting to about $500m added to the amount of $1.6bn from the NLNG that total to the amount of $2.1bn. That was the money that was shared.

“Imagine what Edo State got from this renewed transparency and total compliance to the spirit and letter of the constitution. If what we got last week, courtesy of this renewed commitment to transparency, if we had gotten this in the past four years consecutively, we would have made about N10bn.

“So, by the same token, Edo State Government had lost N10bn under Jonathan.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-denies-edo-of-n10bn-in-four-years-oshiomhole/

Oshiomole should go nd die

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Dear prayer-answering God, my generation will 4rever remain grateful for denying us another 4yrs of wanton waste, profligacy, brazen looting, cluelessness, hopelessness, helplessness & NOI Economics of abracadabra.

Pls hit 'like' to say Amen

Do hav a FANTAMAGNISPLENDIGLORIOUS weekend!

The onus now is for the states to use the so-called bailout judiciously.

It will not make any sense to release such huge funds and then it develops wings at the state level.

Any governor that steals will face God's wrath and the people's.

Uncle Jonathan had no regard at all for the rule of law. He just led the country without any sense of direction...

What was extraordinary is that the NLNG has over the years been remitting funds to the Federal Government but the government illegally refused to transfer these funds to the Consolidated Revenue Fund which belongs to the three tiers of government.

What impunity!!! If the last administration had been allowed to stay longer, Nigerians would have suffered greatly because most administration would want to perform in the first tenure and go to sleep in the second.

I think a reappraisal should be done to see the amount NLNG and Shell had given to the FG in the last five years to ascertain the extent of loot.

This dwarf should keep shut. What has he done with the ones that he was not denied of? Hypocrite!

And the useless tanoids will come here and start shouting rubbish...

SouthernBreeze:
This dwarf should keep shut. What has he done with the ones that he was not denied of? Hypocrite!

What is dis one saying
Did you even read the post at all?

lolaxavier:
And the useless tanoids will come here and start shouting rubbish...

I'm shouting RubishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.


Do your worst ozu

lolaxavier:
And the useless tanoids will come here and start shouting rubbish...

I'm shouting RubbishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.


Do your worst ozu

Oshimole has used edo allocation to pay his Ethiopian wife bride price and he is now making noise here.

Oshiomole now called Iyamoh puff Daddy