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A former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecutor, Nkereuwen Anana has urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to compel the Akwa-Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel, to give details of how the 13 percent oil derivation refunds aid received from the federal government was utilised.
Anana is asking the court for an order compelling the governor, the accountant general of Akwa Ibom State, to disclose to him in writing how the 13 percent oil derivation refunds from the federal government of Nigeria to Akwa Ibom State, Internally Generated Revenue of Akwa Ibom State and monthly federal allocation to Akwa Ibom State is expended under the leadership of Governor Udom Emmanuel.
The lawyer is also seeking an order compelling the governor and the accountant general to disclose to him in writing any other money received by the Government of Akwa Ibom State under the leadership of Governor Udom Emmanuel.
He is further asking the court for an order compelling the governor and the accountant general to disclose to him in writing the ‘Capital Projects’ embarked upon by the government, the location of the projects, the cost of the projects and the contractors of those projects from inception till date. Anana, in a suit, marked FHC/L/CS/423/23, listed the state governor, the state’s accountant-general and the accountant-general of the federation as first to third defendants.
The lawyer, who claimed that he is an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, in his 35-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion, alleged that the Emmanuel administration had abandoned several projects in Akwa Ibom State vis Ibom airport road expansion, Ibom Science/industrial Park, several drainages in Uyo, the state capital has been abandoned, the International worship centre has been abandoned, peacock paint factory, which he claimed to have revived has been abandoned, coconut refinery left, Itu automobile assembly plant/ factory left etc. And that the general hospital, otherwise known as Cottage Hospital, built and abandoned uncompleted by the previous government of Akwa Ibom State in Ukanafun Local Government, has also been left by Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel.
