Nigeria: Delta House Urged to Suspend Appropriation of 13 Percent Derivation Fund

26 October 2012

Benin — FIVE oil and gas producing ethnic nationalities of Delta State, Ijaw, Isoko, Itsekiri, Urhobo and Ndokwa, have requested the state's House of Assembly to suspend appropriation of their 13 per cent derivation fund by the state government.

The communities, in a letter to Delta State House of Assembly, jointly signed by Pa J. O. S Ayomike, Senator F. S. Okpozo, Chief W. Okrika CON, Dr. K. O. Nwachukwu, Chief P. E. Asagba and 20 others, insisted that the fund should be paid into an escrow account pending the resolution of some weighty issues.

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