President Muhammadu Buhari
The thirty-six states of the Federation and the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja have collected a whopping N673.324billion as their
share of statutory allocation and first tranche of the excess crude
earnings distribution for the period.
According to a report by ThisDay, a document from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation titled: "Distribution of Statutory Allocation and Excess Crude Proceeds to the three tiers of Government in July 2016" showed
that five of the states: Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom and Kano,
catapulted themselves to the two-digits wrung with each carting home
between N10 billion and N25 billion.
Similarly, Nasarawa and Ekiti States received N4.508 billion and
N4.732 billion respectively. Other states which also got huge amounts
from the distribution include: Ondo with N9,060,035,806.15 Lagos state
got N8,299,806,965.06 Kaduna state got N7,654,995,396.83 Imo state got
N7,366,417,410.84 Borno state got N7,276,602,098.96 Niger state got
N7,151,791,231.47 Jigawa state got N7,048,660,361.35
Leading the pack, Rivers state got a grand total of N25,883 billion
which is made up of N10.138 billion from 13 per cent derivation,
N12.803 billion from excess crude, N1.39 billion from statutory
allocation and another N1.5 billion excess crude for local governments
in the state.
Similarly, Bayelsa state received N7.97 billion from the 13 per
cent derivation account as well as N10 billion from excess crude
account. The state also had its accounts credited to the tune of N538
million for its councils and another N597.7 million excess crude for the
same councils in the state.
In total, the state smiled home with a whooping grand total of
N19,197,410,863.92. In the same vein, Delta State which garnered a total
of N18.622billion, had its share broken down thus: 13 per cent
derivation N6.977 billion; excess crude N8.734 billion; statutory
allocation for local governments N1.379 billion and excess crude
distribution to the councils N1.531 billion.
This is the first of such payments as states will continue to enjoy
this windfall over the next several months. The fourth highest
beneficiary and another oil producing state of the Niger Delta, Akwa
Ibom, has its breakdown as follows: statutory allocation N6.458 billion,
excess crude distribution N8.065 billion, statutory allocations for
state councils N1.569 billion while the excess crude account for
councils was credited with a whopping N1.738 billion. In total, the
state got N17,831,804,082.85.
The only non-oil producing state that garnered over N10 billion was
Kano. It got N10.776 billion and was distributed as follows: statutory
allocation N2.44 billion; excess crude N2.7 billion, statutory
allocation for its 44 councils, N2.669 billion and excess crude to same
accounted for N2.959 billion.
Conversely, the FCT, Gombe, Ebonyi, Nasarawa and Ekiti States went
with the least allocations of between N73.3 million and N4 billion .
While the document further showed that the FCT got its accounts credited
to the tune of N673.324 million, Gombe State became richer with M4.435
billion lumped into its accounts.
No comments:
Post a Comment