Kwara worried over dwindling federal allocation

Date: 2014-10-30

Kwara State Government has expressed concern over the state's slide from the 33rd slot to the bottom of the 36-state federation fiscal allocation table.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors' forum at the end of its meeting in Ilorin, the state capital, had alleged that the federal government was deliberately starving the APC states of funds from the federation account.

In a communique read by its Chairman and Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, the Forum demanded an urgent meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan over the issue.

The state's Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, on Wednesday, said it was strange and surprising that Kwara State which had ranked 33 for many years on the allocation table suddenly fell to the bottom of the table.

Banu, who said the state government had complained in writing to the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), demanding full explanation why the body had not met this month, however explained that the state government would explore all legitimate avenues to meet all its statutory obligations to the people of the state.

He added that "we appeal to peace loving people of our dear state for more understanding and patriotism at this usual political persecution of our state."

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