By Yien Gattour Mead<\/p>\n
Unity State lawmakers have threatened to impeach finance minister over failure to answer questions regarding the 3% proceeds from crude oil revenue.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The move was initiated after the finance minister failed to show up on a previous summon to answer questions about oil revenue.<\/p>\n After deliberating over the matter at length, the lawmakers unanimously agreed to summon the state\u2019s Finance Minister Malual Tap to furnish them with details on the matter.<\/p>\n Stephen Mawich, chairperson of the Unity State Legislative Assembly’s information committee, reported that parliament summoned the state’s Finance Minister several times but the Minister declined to explain the budget.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is happening in the oil-producing state and the lack of development made us ask about the 3 percent oil share. We do not know where the 3 percent is going,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a serious matter that needs to be addressed quickly. We need to know the state’s budget before passing the new 2023\/2024 budget.<\/p>\n He said the Finance Minister is now given seven days to appear next and any further failure would force the lawmakers to take against Minister Tap.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter seven days we will come up with a vote of no confidence against the minister Finance Malual Tap Diu.\u201d<\/p>\n For his part, Dr. Riak Koang, a member of civil society in Unity State, said it was important for the parliamentarians to know where the money has been going.<\/p>\n \u201cWe the civil society, we need to know where the money has been allocated to currently because our people have not been getting the 3 percent oil share allocated to the community for development, education, health, and safe water among other things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Koang stated that the state’s development is hindered by inadequate management of the 3% oil share in seven counties: Mayom, Rubkona, Guit, Koch, Mayiendit, Leer, and Panyijiar.<\/p>\n He said nobody knows where the budget of 3% of the oil budget was spent.<\/p>\n The state\u2019s finance minister did not answer repeated phone calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Yien Gattour Mead Unity State lawmakers have threatened to impeach finance minister over failure to answer questions regarding the 3% proceeds from crude oil revenue. The move was initiated after the finance minister failed to show up on a previous summon to answer questions about oil revenue. After deliberating[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lakes-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18029,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028\/revisions\/18029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}