BENIN CITY — PRESIDENT of the African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Benin-City-based Non-Governmental Organisation, the Reverend David Ugolor has called on the Houses of Assembly in the oil bearing states of the Niger Delta to make laws that will compel their governors to publish how they spend the money they collect as 13 per cent derivation and the projects the money were expended on.
Ugolor who spoke to Vanguard in Benin City on a recent survey carried out by his organisation in conjunction with the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Berlin on management of oil revenue in the Niger Delta also suggested that the governors be compelled by the lawmakers to set up Oil Derivation Fund Management Commitees (ODFMC) to not only determine projects to be executed but award and execute contracts.
The committee, he added, should have representatives of the community development associations, town unions, youth associations, traditional rulers, NGOs, state government, citizens that have international integrity and individual beneficiaries of derivation funds to states as members.
According to him, the Houses of Assembly should make laws that would compel the governors to publish monthly how much money they get as 13 percent derivation from the Federation Account and establish the Niger Delta Development Fund Initiative (NDDFI).
In the words of Ugolor, “it is also necessary for the state governmen
