Six months after key stakeholders in various sectors of the Nigerian economy pledged over N50bn to help support victims of insurgency across the country, about 70 per cent of the pledges have not been redeemed.Specifically, the largest sectoral donors, banking and oil/gas sectors, at the fund raising, which was held at the Presidential Villa, had yet to pay anything out of the billions of naira they pledged.It was gathered that of the over N50bn pledged at the event, the Presidential Committee on Victims Support Fund had received only N15bn.A member of the committee told journalists in Abuja that the N15bn so far redeemed was garnered from the donors since August, 2014.The official, who pleaded not to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the subject, spoke on the sidelines of an event organised by an NGO, budgIT, where it presented a report on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation Fund.Asked to state how much was realised after the pledges and how the fund was used, the official said, “It’s about N15bn as of August; we are going to publish our account very soon and it will be made available to the press. But in the mean time, we are trying as much as possible to ensure that individuals redeem their pledges, including members of the oil and gas sector as well as members in the financial sector.“We are appealing to them and we are hoping that they redeem their pledges.”The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allinson-Maduekwe, had led representatives of the oil and gas community in Nigeria to announce their donation of a whopping N17bn during the event.Operators in the banking sector pledged in billions when the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, announced a donation of N15bn on their behalf.When asked to state how the N15bn so far realised by the committee was spent, the official said, “At the moment, we are setting up blueprints. We have tried to take a census of the people that have been displaced in terms of military victims, police victims, women, children and all that.“So there has really not been any disbursement so far except for the intervention that we have done in the three states and Abuja.“Apart from these interventions, there had not been much expenditure so far. But we had the take-off at Waru here in Abuja and we have been to Borno, Adamawa and Gombe states.”

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pledging is one thing,redeeming is another thing.

eunisam:
pledging is one thing,redeeming is another thing.

They should pay what they owe

Gej till 2019