The development followed a ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday which held that the facility, located in Akuku-Toru Local Council of Rivers State, belonged to the latter.
He explained that the continued reliance on the said defective 11th edition of the administrative map of Nigeria by the other government agencies/statutory bodies, particularly the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission and the Accountant General of the Federation in the computation of revenue accruable to Rivers State from the Federation Account had resulted in the age-long “unjust denial of derivation funds accruing from the Soku oil wells situate within Rivers State to the...
The failure of the National Boundary Commission to obey the ruling of the apex court on the oil wells had spurred the Rivers Attorney General to file an originating summons for the enforcement of the declarative judgment on the disputed facility. “The Rivers State government is already summing up what should be its entitlement from the period the crisis began up to this present day. And when we get that, we will be able to make public a statement categorically as to what we have and we are entitled to,” he stated.
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