INJUSTICE OF REVENUE ALLOCATION IN NIGERIA (1)
By Ann-kio Briggs
North Central recieves 20%
CONTRIBUTES. 0.00%
North East recieves. 16%
CONTRIBUTES. 0.00%
North West recieves. 21%
CONTRIBUTES. 0.00%
Every month the 19 Northern states recieves a minimum of 57% of 100% revenue to which they CONTRIBUTE 0.00%.
South West Recieves. 16%
CONTRIBUTES. 3.97%
South East. Recieves. 11.00%
CONTRIBUTES. 2.07%
South South Recieves. 15.00%
CONTRIBUTES. 91.64%
NIGERIA has 774 Local Government Areas
Northern Nigeria has 19 States, the 19 States has 419 Local Government Areas
Southern Nigeria has been 17 states the 17 states has 357 Local Government Areas
Working with the data from the office of the Accountant General as published by the Ministry of Finance (2013 April), the 357 Local Government Areas of the 17 southern states recieve 45.1% of what they contribute a 100%
The 419 Local Government Areas of the 19 Northern states recieves 54.9% of what they contribute 0.00%
No grammar will take away the fact that l am talking of equity and justice. The South of Nigeria particularly the Niger Delta has over loved the North, and they don't appreciate it. We must now love our selves, our children and their future and region 200%.
Some Niger Delta people may think it is politically correct to continue to give to a system and people that will never give to us, and even consider us fools for giving. I refuse to be politically correct, if it means sacrificing Niger Delta.
How dare someone who brings nothing and takes more than me who brings 100% ask me what l am doing with the little that he did not steal.
THE INJUSTICE OF REVENUE ALLOCATION IN NIGERIA (2)
By Ann-kio Briggs
I am happy that l shared the facts of revenue sharing a week or so ago. I am regretful that l did not share it earlier than this.
I am ready to take on anyone, be they politicians or individuals on the facts. The freedom of information bill compels the FG to give Nigerians the monthly expenditure of oil and gas revenue.
How much does FederalGovernment owe the NDDC.? How much does the Federal Government owe the Ministry of Niger Delta? How much does the Federal Government owing the Amnesty program? How much does the Federal Government owe the oil and gas producing states?
I call on the oil and gas producing states, and the communities to educate themselves on the FACTS AND LIES ON THE CLAIMS THAT EXPLORATION OF OIL AND GAS IN THE NIGER DELTA WAS CARRIED OUT BY USING NORTHERN RESOURCES.
This claim is divisive and a lie, and will continue to fuel the anger that will continue to hold up our needs to agitate for 101% ownership and control of our God given resources.
As long as people from the North continue to feed these lies to themselves and the rest of Nigeria we in the Niger Delta will not step down from our agitation for ownership and control of our resources.
These claims are lies, they insult and assault us as a people and region, that has made sacrifices the beneficiaries of our natural resources will never make. If some foolish and ignorant Niger Delta people are willing to sell their birth rights the majority of us are not. If the greedy amongst us are willing to be beggars for what is our own, the majority that have been denied and impoverished for over 50 years, are no longer willing to accept these assaults.
FACTS OF FACTS ABOUT THE FUNDING OF OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION IN THE NIGER DELTA.
The first and unsuccessful exploration for oil was in 1908 by Nigeria Bitumen Coy. & British Colonial Petroleum around Okitipupa. (Before Amalgamation ).
In 1938 Shell D'Arcy was granted exploration licence to explore for oil.
In 1955, Mobil Oil Corporation started oil exploration in the Niger Delta.
In 1956 Shell BP (formerly Shell D'Arcy) at that time the only concessionaire finally STRUCK oil at Oloibiri in COMMERCIAL quantity, after over 50 yrs of exploration.
There are figures sourced from *Carland 1985, (colonial office and Nigeria (1898-1914) and annual report of the colonies.
*Northern Nigeria 1904 and annual report of the colonies
Northern Nigeria 1906 -1907 to support my claims and l will only respond to people who have cross checked or have superior facts to counter mine.
I don't deal with propaganda or lies. These are my facts bring yours. Nigeria of Southern and Northern protectorate were amalgamated for the simple economic reason that the colonial British government was running the North on deficit as the expenditure in the North was more than its revenue. While the revenue in the South was more than its expenditure.
(And these facts are not about people who are bankers or good with figures it is about facts.)
Therefore unless the North of Nigeria were oil prospecting partners with the Nigeria Bitumen Coy. & British Colonial Petroleum in 1908,
Shell D'Arcy in 1938
Mobil Oil Corporation in 1955 and Shell BP in 1956 it never used it's groundnut money in our Niger Delta
If the people of the North or the government of Northern Nigeria were not partners or shareholders in these private investment companies how on earth did money from groundnut and hides and skins used to explore for oil and gas.?
The attempts to change the economic history of Nigeria to justify the injustice of looting the resources from NigerDelta to share amongst a few is not acceptable. The greed of a few to use the Nigeria state to continue to benefit maxzimally from the Niger Delta wealth while denying the rightful owners even the 50% they enjoyed in the days of groundnut and cocoa is no longer acceptable to the people of the Niger Delta.
No amount of twisting, turning, threats, blackmail, and lies will stop our calls for equity and justice.
It was in 1973, 3 years after the civil war, the genocidal war against the Igbos, that the First Participation Agreement (FPA) saw the Federal Government's acquisition of 35% shares in the oil companies. In 1974 the Second Participation Agreement (SPA) the FG equity was increased to 55%.
MY QUESTION. ON BEHALF OF MY PEOPLE AND REGION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH TO TELL US THE OWNERS AND IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE OF NIGER DELTA HOW THEIR GROUNDNUT PROCEEDS WAS USED TO FUND OIL PROSPECTING AND OPERATIONS IN MY NIGER DELTA.
We maintain that it is possible for Nigeria to remain a Country, but we must first sit down and agree on a fresh agreement that we will all submit our demands and conditions to if we agree then we agree, if we disagree then we disagree.
But we are no longer prepared to give away the future of our grand children and their children. Surely this is the least that even the North will ask for or demand, if the oil and gas was on and in their land.
THE NORTH DID NOT AND HAVE NEVER USED THEIR GROUNDNUT OIL MONEY IN THE NIGER DELTA TO PROSPECT FOR OIL AND GAS OR ANY OTHER NATURAL RESOURCE PROSPECTING.
ANNKIO BRIGGS
DAUGHTER AND SERVANT OF THE NIGER DELTA.
#Referendum

This country is structured to serve only one people-fulani north. Why some southerners refuse to see this truth as it is, is beyond me.

Pure facts. What a revelation.

thanks ma'am.

GEJ was the president of this country at a time and from Bayelsa, what did he do to correct this anomaly? Go and sit down Ms Briggs

Yyeske:
GEJ was the president of this country at a time and from Bayelsa, what did he do to correct this anomaly? Go and sit down Ms Briggs

The change President and APC party can do that, we must change from bad to good if it true.

GEJ was in a better position to address it but I guess it was not regarded as an anomaly then

Yyeske:
GEJ was the president of this country at a time and from Bayelsa, what did he do to correct this anomaly? Go and sit down Ms Briggs

He organized that convention regarding the future of Nigeria and they made a suggestions that the current administration has discarded.

jumobi1:


He organized that convention regarding the future of Nigeria and they made a suggestions that the current administration has discarded.

He served between 2010-2015, I guess he had confidence he will was winning the 2015 elections thus the national conference coming in 2014 (March). This shows that in Politics, every second counts and if you want to push your agenda, start from the onset as we don't have a good history of continuity.

Yyeske:
GEJ was the president of this country at a time and from Bayelsa, what did he do to correct this anomaly? Go and sit down Ms Briggs

Not surprised seeing u trying to defend the injustice and in support of the north

@mrsbriggs thanks for showing us that groundnut pyramid did not help in oil exploration. #middlebelter

Truly the Niger Delta has been treated unfairly. Its unfortunate that Jonathan refused to do anything in his 5 years there but better late than never.

The discussion on giving a better deal to the Niger Delta must start now. Better still we go back to the regional system we had before the military foisted the unitary system on the country. Let every region sustain itself and pay tax to the center.

All this ojukwu said for over 50years and nnamdi kanu has been saying. Now watch how the 3% will start attacking the 2% and vice versa instead of attacking the 0% or pleading for the 91%. And the 0% will be having fun out of the whole drama and be strategising how to take 100% southerners are thier problems. Where the greedy ones are beggars

Madam Briggs, leave d north alone, d monies dat our SS regions have gotten so far, wat have our so called leaders done wit them Our SS leaders are only gud @ looting n wen ders no more money to loot, dey start blaming d North.
Delta state wit her monthly allocation, 13percent derivatives, IGR, ND ministry, NDDC n bogus loans, is still looking like Haiti.
Lagos state wit gud leaders frm Tinubu to Ambode have changed d fortune of Lagos.
We keep shouting our Oyel, we keep blaming d North for d massive failures n Looting by our Governors. Very annoying.

agbangam:
Madam Briggs, leave d north alone, d monies dat our SS regions have gotten so far, wat have our so called leaders done wit them Our SS leaders are only gud @ looting n wen ders no more money to loot, dey start blaming d North.
Delta state wit her monthly allocation, 13percent derivatives, IGR, ND ministry, NDDC n bogus loans, is still looking like Haiti.
Lagos state wit gud leaders frm Tinubu to Ambode have changed d fortune of Lagos.
We keep shouting our Oyel, we keep blaming d North for d massive failures n Looting by our Governors. Very annoying.

You don't have the right to ask this question. I'm sure you didn't read this article. And for your information, all Lagos governors are more corrupt than all ND governors put together.

This is interesting.

MasterofNL:
This is interesting.

yh

Hmm. Ndiigbo, Biko obulu na unu ga-ekwe, unu arapulu ndi Niger delta na Ndi Arewa defenders( fa ma onwe fa) threadia, ka fa gbuo onwe fa.

Oburo ogu nine( nile) ka dike ga-anu tupu amalu na obu dike.

Yyeske:
GEJ was the president of this country at a time and from Bayelsa, what did he do to correct this anomaly? Go and sit down Ms Briggs

He organised the National conference to solve the problem but the north/SW conspired to ensure that he gets no opportunity to implement the recommendation

pazienza:
Hmm. Ndiigbo, Biko obulu na unu ga-ekwe, unu arapulu ndi Niger delta na Ndi Arewa defenders( fa ma onwe fa) threadia, ka fa gbuo onwe fa.

Oburo ogu nine( nile) ka dike ga-anu tupu amalu na obu dike.

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