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A socio-ethnic movement in the Niger Delta, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People USA (MOSOP-USA), has chastised many states for depending solely on federal allocations for survival.
The movement, therefore, recommended the adoption of a revenue distribution formula among the three tiers of government that will encourage production and discourage a dependent sharing mentality.
The recommendation was contained in a memorandum issued by the President of MOSOP-USA, DineBari Augustine Kpuinem, and submitted to the Senate Committee on Constitution Review recently.
According to Kpuinem, “it is absurd that most states only depend on the derivation coming from the Federal Government without putting in place internal generation of revenue mechanism.”
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He noted that the economic regression being experienced in the country is as a result of misappropriation of revenue allocation derived majorly from oil exploration in the Niger Delta.
“The funds allocated to the various state governments in oil producing states are not judiciously and properly spent across the indigenous people of the states”, he alleged.