The Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has urged the federal government to pay the state its share of 13 percent oil revenue in line with the Derivation Principle as provided for in the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

The governor made the call when he received the Indices and Disbursement Committee of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) at the Government House, Enugu,

It would be recalled that the RMAFC had in December 2022 listed Enugu as an oil producing state.

However, receiving the RMAFC team in his office, Mbah regretted that the state was yet to receive 13 per cent of revenues accruing to it from the affected oil fields.

“We still have this pending issue of Enugu State being recognised as an oil producing state, which your Office actually communicated to us sometime in December 2022 based on the report of the Inter-agency Technical Committee. The Committee came up with a recommendation that Enugu should be benefiting from the 13 per cent derivation of the Anambra River Basin 1, Anambra River Basin 2, and Anambra River 3. But we have still not benefited from those fields.

“So, it is our hope that your Office will put the necessary machinery in motion to ensure that we begin to benefit from that,” he stated.

Mbah, in a statement, however said his government was not resting on its oars, as it was mobilising internal revenue sources, growing the state’s IGR by over 400 per cent by broadening the revenue sources and deploying technology to block leakages.