Bolanle OlabimtanA federal high court in Abuja has declared that the direct deduction of funds from the federation account to fund theIn a judgment delivered on Wednesday, Ahmed Mohammed, the presiding judge, held that the provisions of section 4 of the Police Trust Fund Act 2019, requiring the deduction of 0.05 percent of any funds in the federation account and 0.005 percent of the net profit of companies operating in Nigeria to fund the police are unconstitutional.
Consequently, the judge ordered the federal government to refund all money deducted from the federation account belonging to Rivers state government., through its attorney-general, had on May 20, 2020, filed a suit against the federal government’s decision to fund the NPF from the federation account.
This Buhari govt doesn't obey court judgements.
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