Ekiti State governor, Mr.
Ayodele Fayose has accused the Federal Government of using an
e-Payment firm, Remita to defraud Nigeria, saying he would not attend a
meeting summoned by the government to discuss the Treasury Single
Account, TSA.
This came as the governor said should the All Progressives Congress,
APC, decide to boycott the forthcoming local government elections in
Ekiti, the exercise would still hold on December 19, as scheduled.
Fayose in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka claimed that the TSA
was a policy aimed at raising money for the forthcoming Kogi and Bayelsa
States governorship polls.
His words: ‘’Ekiti State is entitled to its own policies and it is
not under any obligation to accept Federal Government policies,
especially the TSA that is already robed in the garment of fraud. I
therefore wish to state categorically that Ekiti State is not interested
in the TSA policy and since the state is not interested, I, as the
custodian of the popular mandate of the entire people of the state will
not attend any meeting called by the Federal Government on the TSA.
“TSA is also meant to enrich some individuals for doing virtually
nothing and that can be seen from the discovery of N25 billion that
already accrued to just a single company in one month. How can the
Federal Government justify a transaction in which a single company gets
one percent, amounting to N25 billion in one month?
“Shouldn’t the one per cent commission have been negotiated downward
to like 0.1 percent which would have reduced the N25 billion to N2.5
billion? Even manufacturing companies, with thousands of employees don’t
make N25 billion profit in one month.’’
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