Niger State Gov. Bago Demands 13% Derivation From Oil Revenue, Threatens to Shutdown Kanji Dam

Governor Umaru Bago has threatened to shut down the Kainji Dam and other power infrastructure supplied to the Delta region if the federal government does not extend the payment of 13% per cent derivation fund enjoyed by oil-producing states to Niger.

“We will take the federal government to the Supreme Court unless the 13 per cent derivation from our land, water, air, grass, and everything given to us is paid. We need 13 per cent derivation for water supplied to the Delta. Our people are ravaged and displaced year in, year out because of the flow of water from the Niger to the Delta,” stated the Niger governor Monday while receiving the federal commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons, Tijani Aliyu, in Minna.

Mr Bago added, “The federal government will pay Niger state N1 trillion in the next three months for hydrocarbon exchange, they must. We have provided this country with hydropower for a long time; nobody is compensating us for it.”

The governor, who said the state had been neglected and marginalised for too long, also demanded compensation from the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

“Abuja Electricity Distribution Company must pay us, they have consumed from Niger state hydrocarbon exchange, and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation must pay us,” the northern governor. “We have woken up, we can never ever tolerate being neglected or abandoned again. The only way we can ensure that the federal government heeds to us is to shut down the hydro dams unless we are paid.”

However, Mr Bago stressed that his administration would collect “every dime” Niger deserves.

“We are serious about this. It is not a threat; it is a statement. Every dime that is due to us, we will take it. We will take every kobo that is for Niger state,” the governor explained. “We are not going to be marginalised again; our waters, our lands, our borders are strengths for us and not weaknesses.”

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Posted: at 8-11-2023 06:47 AM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero

All out for looting

Posted: at 8-11-2023 10:25 AM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero

lol... Actually, majority of the water that goes to kogi comes through kainji dam in Niger state...but he's a clown, you can't "close a dam down"....That statement shows his level of ignorance. He can't "stop the water" because the water comes from Niger Republic. The only thing that can happen is to shut your machines, and still, he doesn't have that power because kainji hydro power station is property of the federal government before they fraudulently gave it to some people in the name of privatisation. It is devastating to even try to close the water outlet gates because the volume of water can even clear a whole community. Let that clown bask in his ignorance.

Posted: at 8-11-2023 11:05 AM (1 year ago) | Hero

Of course I know, but in my place, they say that yes doesn't cause a quarrel, its no that causes quarrels, so yes, let him go ahead with his threat. The powerful surge of the reserved water on the other side of the Dam will wipe out several villages in his State, no matter what system they apply in destroying it. He thinks that he can hold the country by the neck with his baseless demands, so I will be happy, if the Federal Government can dare him.

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Posted: at 8-11-2023 11:51 AM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero

pure crime

Posted: at 8-11-2023 01:31 PM (1 year ago) | Grande Master