Abuja — A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Usman Bugage, has said the rising profile of the country's revenue does not reflect on the people's living standard, noting that it was very difficult to explain how the oil money was being applied.
Bugage, who spoke in Abuja yesterday at the opening ceremony of a conference tagged: "Nigeria's War Against Corruption in Myth or Reality," said Nigeria could not justify her huge revenue from oil in the face of poverty in the land, more so when there was no checks and balances in the way the revenue was being applied as President Olusegun Obasanjo is also the Minister of Petroleum.
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