By Samuel Oyadongha

YENAGOA—Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State yesterday urged the Federal Government to make the amount of money accruing to the central government and its parastatals from the federation account public.

Timipre Sylva and Seriake Dickson

Reacting to the recent publications of amount of money accruing to states from the Federation Account under the administration of President Mohammadu Buhari he said:  “Though many from other states claimed we are highest producer of oil and number three on the table. That shows you the lopsided nature of the sharing pattern adopted by the Federal Government. It would be interesting to Nigerians if the Federal Government should publish what it gets and spends. The federal government should also publish the account of the NNPC and other parastatals. We are teaching other states transparency and public accountability. When we are talking and some others are talking because we are in a primitive state where many want to hear falsehood rather than truth. With the deduction of over N12.3billion money they overpaid past administration and if you don’t have a prudent government, the state would have collapsed.

“They claimed the deduction of N1.2billion and N1.3 billion monthly was excess deductions. Those were debts incurred by an incompetent and shameless government under Timipre Sylva. They are inciting criminal  youths to disturb the peace of the state. In January, 2016, the state got N7 billion but a N3 billion 419 loan incurred by Sylva was deducted. In February, we got N6 billion but N3 billion was deducted. In March, N5 billion came but loan of N3.3  billion was deducted. If we used 10 per cent of the deductions for salaries or project, we would not have the trouble we have now.”