The House of Representatives has
mandated its committee on telecommunications to liaise with the Nigerian Postal
Service (NIPOST) to ascertain the total amount collected so far as stamp duty
charges of N50 per transaction.
The committee is to also
ascertain where the money has been deposited and report back within four weeks.
Adopting a motion by Rep Odeneye
Kehinde Olusegun (APC, Ogun), the House said since a Federal Government’s
directive to banks and other financial institutions to begin the collection of
N50 stamp duty on every transaction, nothing has been heard from NIPOST about
the whereabouts of the money.
The House said based on
government’s directive, each bank was to open a dedicated account for NIPOST
stamp duty into which all collected charges would be paid and subsequently
transferred to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Adopting another motion by Rep
Chidi Frank Wihioka (APC, Rivers), the House urged the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Nigerian Agip Oil Company
(NAOC) to urgently commence the process of compensating victims of a gas
pipeline explosion at Evekwu on February 22, 2017
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