Friday 26 May 2017

Ogun, FCT and Other 18 States to share N40bn ecological fund

Ogun State, 18 opposition States and Federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja and that were excluded from the sharing of ecological funds in 2013 during the administration of the former Goodluck Jonathan are set to get their own shares.

The states that got the ecological funds were all PDP states
and states of other parties that were
sympathetic to the PDP like Labour Party in
Ondo and APGA in Anambra State. Nineteen states and the FCT did not get
the N2bn each from the Ecological Fund.

According to Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who addressed the journalists said the States that were excluded are; Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Borno,
Edo, Ekiti , Imo , Jigawa, Kano , Kwara and
Lagos.

“Others are Nasarawa , Niger , Ogun , Osun ,
Oyo , Rivers , Sokoto , Yobe and Zamfara.

Each State is to collect N2bn each denied them by the Jonathan administration from the funds set aside.

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