In what is apparently to be a record, the State of Osun, South-West Nigeria, has received a mere N6 million as monthly allocation from the Federation Account.
The shocking record was set last month, February 2016, according to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) as published on Friday by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. The FAAC, however, explained in a note immediately following the N6m allocation for Osun that it was “due to debts deducted from the source.”
This gives an idea of how bad the situation has become in Osun, where public servants are hardly paid even as the State Government under the watch of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) undertakes grandiose projects, including an airport.
Below is the amount received by each state during February 2016:
Abia – N2.27bn
Adamawa – N2.23bn
Akwa Ibom – N8.55bn
Anambra – N2.51bn
Bauchi – N2.55bn
Bayelsa – N2.98bn
Benue – N2.10bn
Borno – N2.87bn
Cross River – N1.06bn
Delta – N6.06bn
Ebonyi – N2.16bn
Edo – N2.09bn
Ekiti – N1.37bn
Enugu – N2.37bn
Gombe – N1.59bn
Imo – N2.29bn
Jigawa – NN2.77bn
Kaduna – N2.85bn
Kano – N3.86bn
Katsina – N2.99bn
Kebbi – N2.45bn
Kogi – N2.50bn
Kwara – N1.81bn
Lagos – N6.61bn
Nassarawa – N2.16bn
Niger – N2.34bn
Ogun – N1.18bn
Ondo – N2.34bn
Osun – N6m **Osun N6 million due to debts deducted from the source
Oyo – N2.56bn
Plateau – N1.53bn
Rivers – N6.42bn
Sokoto – N2.67bn
Taraba – N2.1bn
Yobe – N2.36bn
Zamfara – N1.62bn
Source: News Express