{"id":25171,"date":"2020-11-21T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=25171"},"modified":"2020-11-21T18:04:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:04:40","slug":"uvwie-monarch-wants-traditional-rulers-to-manage-derivation-funds-as-govt-intervention-agencies-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=25171","title":{"rendered":"Uvwie Monarch Wants Traditional Rulers to Manage Derivation Funds as Govt. Intervention Agencies Have Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria (TROMPCON), Delta State chapter, the Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom, HRM Emmanuel Sideso (JP) OON, Abe 1, has suggested that oil derivation funds should be managed by traditional rulers of oil producing communities.<\/p>\n<p>Abe 1\u2019s suggestion was contained in a key note address during the meeting of traditional rulers of oil mineral producing communities otherwise known as TROMPCON in Delta State at his palace in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area on Wednesday November 18, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Uvwie monarch also called for restructuring of Nigeria as he advocated that the federating units should be allowed to own, control and manage their natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis meeting should suggest way forward. It is my earnest suggestion that the management of the 13% derivation fund be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cInstead of establishing agencies with huge bureaucratic cost. attention should be on community trust funds, where the traditional rulers will be the supervisors of the funds,\u201d he stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ovie had earlier berated both the state and federal government interventionist agencies for their poor service delivery to the people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is an open truth that these commissions have failed to meet the yearnings of the people of the Niger \u2013 Delta Region \u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is more worrisome where the ownership, control and management of oil resource is centralized, whereas other mineral resources in the Northern States are left for the various states to own, control and manage. A case in point is the gold mineral found in Zamfara State,\u201d the Ovie added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He then declared that the people of the Niger Delta Region should be allowed to own, control and manage their oil resources such that they pay royalty and taxes to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The Uvwie monarch had earlier appreciated both the state and federal governments for their provision of palliatives to the people during the lock down people.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria (TROMPCON), Delta State chapter, the Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom, HRM Emmanuel Sideso (JP) OON, Abe 1, has suggested that oil derivation funds should be managed by traditional rulers of oil producing communities. Abe 1\u2019s suggestion was contained in a key note address during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5681,2036,5889],"class_list":["post-25171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-hrm-emmanuel-sideso","tag-ovie-of-uvwie-kingdom","tag-trompcon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ovie-of-Uvwie.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-6xZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25172,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions\/25172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}