The Delta State Government says it assessed only N44.7 billion out of the N240 billion due it from the 13 percent derivation fund owed by the Federal Government.
This was disclosed by the State commissioner for Finance, Fidelis Tilije, while briefing reporters at Government House, Asaba.
The clarification comes against the backdrop of the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s disclosure that President Muhammadu Buhari had released the 13 percent derivation money owed to the Niger Delta States from 1999 to the present.
