Tuesday 8 January 2013

I met only N4,451 in State purse-Gov Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa

Federal Government has to investigate this statement because this is the highest level of corruption.How in the world can a whole State Government have this amount in its purse and if its political propaganda ,the incumbent has to be cautioned.THIS IS UNBELIVABLE!
Read the rest of the STORY as reported by Daily TimesNG

The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has claimed that his predecessor, Chief Timipre Sylva, left just N4,451 in the purse of the state on his exit from office.

.Dickson, who said that a N50 billion Bond Sylva obtained during his tenure was also posing a major challenge to his administration, revealed that he has been able to grow the N4,451 to N16 billion as at Monday.
The Governor spoke in Abuja at the presentation of his administration’s financial scorecard for December 2012.
He said Internally Generated Revenue is expected to rise to N2 billion monthly by the end of 2013.
Before he came into power, Dickson said the IGR was N300 million.
Represented by his Commissioner for Finance, Duate Iyabi, Dickson said 2013 will be for the of the achievements of his administration.
But Sylva has denied Dickson’s position that he left just N4,451 in the state’s coffers.
He said since he did not hand over to Dickson, it was impossible for him to know how much he left behind.
Sylva, in his position made known by his media aide, Doifie Ola, said he handed over to the former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Nestor Binabo, adding: “We did not hand over to Dickson.
“There was an acting governor who took over from us and so the question should go to him''