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The Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, has described as probably deceptive the viral allegation {that a} whooping sum of 89 trillion naira has been collected and misappropriated as stamp obligation by federal authorities businesses between 2016 and 2022.
A member of the Home of Representatives, Gudaji Kazaure, has since final yr been within the forefront of the allegation that the sum of N89 trillion collected as stamp obligation has not been accounted for.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Emefiele nevertheless described the allegation as uncertain, including that between 2016 and 2022, the entire sum collected as stamp obligation was N378,686 billion.
He additionally added that the apex financial institution had appointed some world class audit companies to torchlight the books of the business banks.
“CBN won’t be a part of folks in heating up the system. We wrote to banks to offer us of their letter headed papers and signal it how a lot they’ve collected from stamp obligation from 2016 thus far.
“Whole property of all banks are N71 trillion; whole deposit in banks is N44.49 trillion. From 2016 until date, stamp obligation assortment has amounted to N378,686 billion.
“The Federal Inland Income Service has disbursed N226.451 billion of the cash to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), whereas the steadiness of N144, 235 billion is within the CBN.
“The best assortment of the stamp is N71 billion, collected by First Financial institution,” he mentioned.
“We appointed 4 main audit companies (KPMG, PWC, Deloitte and one different) to enter the books of banks to confirm if there was any unremitted stamp obligation.
“If there’s any uncollected stamp obligation, the banks pays to the final kobo,” Emefiele mentioned.
