Edwin Clark to IAOkowa: Stop misusing derivation funds | Spend more on oil-producing areas | TheCable
Clark, in a statement on Thursday, alleged that the 13 percent derivation funds received by the state government were mismanaged.The 13 percent derivation fund comes from the federation account to oil-producing communities through the state governments as enshrined in section 162, sub-section 2 of the Nigerian constitution.Clark said the state government has not spent the derivation funds on foremost areas and projects but rather on “favoured areas”.
“You chose Agbor in order to carry out your secret agenda of establishing a University in your village in Owa-Alero. Today, no new building has been constructed in the old College of Education, Agbor. “Ozoro polytechnic which has recently been upgraded to University is qualified because they produce oil, but no new building has been erected since the conversion of the Institution. It was expected that the school of Marine Technology in Burutu which is of the same status as the College of Education, Agbor, and College of Education, Warri would also be upgraded to university level even though; they produced oil in their area.
“In your usual parochial, nepotic attitude and character, you amended the constitution of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission to bring in more oil-producing communities in Delta state including your local government area, Ika, to expand the number of members in the commission to other areas of the state that are not producing oil.“Section 2 of the Principal Law was amended by inserting “Ika” after the word Isoko in the interpretation of the ethnic nationalities”.
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