PANDEF@10: Leaders push for 50% derivation

By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—THE  Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, the apex socio-political body of the South-South geopolitical zone has called for a total overhaul of the region, demand an increase in the derivation allocation to oil-producing states from the current minimum of 13 percent to 50 percent.
It also wants accelerated completion of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway and urgent environmental remediation across the Niger Delta.
PANDEF urged the Federal Government, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, and the National Assembly to initiate measures to raise the allocation to at least 50 percent, just as it argued that the minimum 13 percent derivation all...