Ifeanyi Okowa, the previous governor of Delta State, did not give the oil-producing villages in Delta State the required 50% of the 13% of oil derivation money that came from the federal government, according to Edwin Clark, a Nationalist and Ijaw leader…..CONTINUE READING
According to Edwin Clark, James Ibori, a former governor of Delta State, crafted the law mandating that 50% of the derivation funds go to the Delta State oil producing regions.
Edwin Clark claims that Ifeanyi Okowa classified his hamlet in Ikar as an oil-producing town when he ran for governor of Delta State even though his settlement doesn’t produce crude oil.
Edwin Clark had claimed that the villages who produce oil should be the ones to profit from the derivation revenues, even if Ifeanyi Okowa’s village now splits 50 percent of them with the oil producing towns…..CONTINUE READING