N8 Billion Has Been Refunded to the Federal Government Treasury - Dino Melaye

Posted by Odinaka on Wed 16th Dec, 2015 - tori.ng

A Member of the Nigerian Senate has said that about N8 billion has been refunded back to the treasury of government and more monies will be refunded.

Senator Dino Melaye

Speaking today on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Senator Dino Melaye, has said that about N8 billion has been refunded back to the treasury of the federal government and more monies will be refunded.

"Basically, I want to say that when I raised this motion on the floor of the Senate, I got a lot of insults on social media, everywhere, that I was blabbing and there was no truth in the content of my presentation. But I tweeted that the truth has no colour and every lie has an expiry date.

I want to thank God that I have been vindicated by the public hearing where my revelations on the floor of the Senate have given room for confession even by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor, Godwin Emefiele," he said.

While answering a question on how he got an insight on the alleged illegality and exorbitant commission charged for the deployment of Remita, the Senator said;

"I will want to say that the Treasury Single Account (TSA) is a very laudable program which is going to help blocking leakages and I support it.

My prayer on the day I moved the motion was to commend President Muhammadu Buhari for an implementation of the TSA, but I was challenging that the instrumentality of the TSA is being used by some individuals to undercut Nigerians and our national patrimony," he claimed.

The Senator also cleared the ground on the Social Media Bill by saying; "There is nothing called the social media bill and there is no such bill before the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; at least the 8th Senate.

I want to assure you that the 8th Senate were operating on the three cardinal objective of the agenda (the first, second and third agenda focuses on the people)", he explained.