State Governors are not doing enough to create employment and alleviate poverty - Jonathan ”The current revenue sharing formula as recommended by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, indicates that local governments receive 20.6 per cent of the federally collectible revenue, states get 26.72 per cent while Federal Government gets 52.68 per cent. Many of the states at the moment rush to Abuja every month end to collect their allocations without much to show for them; a situation that has created a challenge in which fiscal federalism in Nigeria has become like a cancer with many states blaming it for their poverty. Unfortunately in Nigeria, when you talk about the issues of development, people think that it is only the Federal Government that can solve the problems. The states as semi autonomous components of the federation, Mr. President does not control the resources of the states. They completely control their resources, so if all states and local governments can work in concert, we will solve most of our problems instead of blaming one another. I believe that government is one even in terms of separation of powers, whether the executive arm of government, the legislative arm of government and even the judicial arm. You talk about one government, it is just separation of powers. If all of us work collectively, if all of us are committed to serving the people of this country, surely, we will get to where we are going as a nation,” President Jonathan said.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:03:16 +0000
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