Food inflation: FG has released extra N30bn each to Governors – Akpabio

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has stated that the federal government, through the federal inland revenue service (FIRS), has sent an additional N30 billion to each state governor of the federation to address the rising cost of living in their states.

Akpabio, speaking at one of the Red Chamber’s plenary sessions, stated that the money for state governors differ from their monthly allocations.

He also made it plain that the monies should be used solely to address the situation of insufficient food supplies, warning against repurposing them for extraneous purposes.

According to him, the funds were remitted from FIRS to the state governors.  

He said,  

• “We can see a lot of protests here and there, most of those sponsored protests are not aware of the kind of efforts being made by this senate to tackle the situation together with a joint management team of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.  
• “I must say that unverified report has it that each of the state governments in the last few months has received an additional N30billion from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, outside their normal allocation from the federation account to assist them in ameliorating the food situation.  
• “We believed that every state government should utilise the funds so received towards ensuring that food is available.”