Buhari is defrauding Nigeria with REMITA. Remita proceeds to fund APC campaign in Kogi and Bayelsa states - Governor Fayose

Buhari is defrauding Nigeria with REMITA - Governor Fayose

Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has accused the Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian 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.

Fayose in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka stated  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.’’