APC has
vowed to inform Nigerians on “shocking revelations” about GEJ`s Government.
Mr. Lai
Mohammed, the APC National Publicity Secretary, in a statement today accused
PDP of given false facts about the source of the $2.1 billion, President Buhari
approved for the three arms of government.
The statement
read “ The revelations concerning the deep rot in the system that will come in
the weeks and months ahead will shock even the most ardent critics of the
Buhari Administration`s salvaging efforts.
“where as the Presidency corrected
the initial erroneous report that the shared money was sourced from the excess
crude account (ECA), the skittish opposition continued to insist it was from
the ECA and that it was part of the ‘savings’ by the Jonathan Administration.
“Well, we can tell Nigerians that
the $2.1 billion was sourced from the $1.6 billion company income tax/education
tax paid to the FG on June 17th 2015, over two weeks after the
Jonathan Administration left office, as well as the $500 million tax paid by
shell.
“We can tell Nigerians that this is
the first time the Payment of the income tax/education tax by the NLNG was being
disclosed by any Government, in addition to paying it into the federation
account for sharing, hence those who call it their `legitimate` earnings should
be asked why they did not demand the sharing of such `legitimate` earnings in
the past.
“We can tell Nigerians that apart
from the said $1.6 billion NLNG payment for 2015, NLNG also paid $1.4 billion
as Income Tax/Education Tax in May 2014, paid $0.3 billion as Education tax to
the FG in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and $1.2 billion in VAT and With-holding tax to
the FG since 2009. These payments are just those made in the past six years
alone, hence there were other payments before them.
“In addition, dividend payments totaling $4,728,136,946
was paid to the FG between 2004 and 2009, out of which only $127,851,348.19 was
credited to the FG Independent account with JP Morgan, leaving a balance of
over $4 billion.
“The
question to ask therefore are why all the past taxes and dividends were neither
fully paid into the federation account nor shared by the three tiers of
government and what happened to the funds.
“Since,
according to the PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan asked that the money be `left
for the incoming administration to manage` It is important for the party,
therefore, to tell Nigerians in which account the money was `saved` because it
is definitely not in the federation account.”
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