It looks like the Ghanaian hip hop song, sung by Sylvanus Dodji Jeoffrey popularly known as Captain Planet (4×4) and others, or the pidgin saying: “monkey dey work, baboon dey chop” when one considers the amount of Value Added Tax (VAT) each geopolitical zone in Nigeria generated in 2024 and how much each zone got back when the total VAT was shared among the six geopolitical zones.
See the VAT contribution and distribution per geopolitical zone in Nigeria in 2024 below:
1. SOUTH WEST
Contributed: N3.11trn
Received: N849.71bn (27.4%)
2. SOUTH SOUTH
Contributed: N1.08trn
Received: N543.49bn (50.3%)
3. NORTH WEST
Contributed: N211.27bn
Received: N574.32bn (271.8%)
4. NORTH EAST
Contributed: N174.50bn
Received: N411.84bn (236%)
5. NORTH CENTRAL
Contributed: N154.54bn
Received: N408.66bn (264.4%)
6. SOUTH EAST
Contributed: N101.09bn
Received: N341.46bn (337.8%)
(Calculation: The Cable)