Delta State Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, said the government has received over N1 trillion in the last seven years contrary to the figures bandied by Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege.
Aniagwu, who spoke yesterday at a briefing in Asaba, said Omo-Agege has displayed poor understanding of statistics and ability to analyse data.
He said: “I read somewhere, where he said we have received over N700 billion in the last seven years and that we couldn’t account for that, and I begin to wonder N700 billion as what? It shows that he does not understand how governance runs because the data that is available shows that we have received more than that.
“I say so because he thinks what we use to run government alone in a year is N100 billion, that’s our wage bill alone, the recurrent side of the budget is even far more than what he was mentioning.
“As a government, we have added value to the people of Delta, whether they live in the creeks or in the upland, so for Omo-Agege to say N700 billion is not accounted for, you begin to wonder whether he understands governance.
“I thought that as a member of the National Assembly he should be able to do some calculations because there has never been any year where we drew up a budget that is less than N360 billion”. Mr. Charles Aniagwu stated.
