•As FG, states, LGs share 400bn
The Federal Government is yet to put a specific figure to the amount of money so far returned secretly by those who looted the treasury, as disclosed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance told journalists at Friday’s Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in Abuja that the loot recovery process is still on-going.
According to Adeosun, when collated, the funds would be returned to where they were stolen from as appropriate. Her words, “There is no figure on the funds being returned yet. The process is on-going. When it is completed and the accounts are available, they would be returned to where they were stolen from. We haven’t come to that yet.”
Meanwhile, N400.31 billion was shared among the three tiers of government as revenue earned in October and meant for November expenditure. It represent a N78.314 billion increase over the N321.996 shared in the previous month. The Federal Government took N200.662 billion from both Federation Account and proceeds of Value Added Tax (VAT). States and Local Governments got N126.177 billion and N95.303 billion, respectively. The oil producing states got an additional N24.141 billion as derivation on oil revenue.
The revenue organizations namely, the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigeria Customs Service and the Department of Petroleum Resources were paid N6.650 billion, N3.535 billion, and N1.531 billion, respectively, as the cost of collection. An analysis of the revenue sources showed that the Non-Mineral revenue has surpassed earnings from the Mineral sector with the former accounting for N213.080 billion to the latter’s N187.230 billion of what was shared.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation paid N6.330 billion to the central coffers as refunds, while N6.6995 was also earned from exchange gain.
-Vanguard