Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), on behalf of Civil Society Coalition against Corruption, yesterday, in Lagos, called on President Bola Tinubu to give assent to a bill for an Act to amend the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Act, CAP. R7 LFN 2010, to grant the commission enforcement powers in monitoring of accruals to, and disbursement of revenue from the federation account, and bring the Act in conformity with provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended); and for other matters related therewith.
The coalition made the appeal in a statement issued to media houses in Lagos, signed by CACOL chairman, Comrade Debo Adeniran.
It recalled that the 9th Assembly, at the twilight of the last administration, had passed the bill that should give the commission a new lease of life, and which had been awaiting Tinubu’s assent.
According to the statement, the bill, as passed by the National Assembly, prescribes that the commission shall be wholly funded by the three tiers of government, being beneficiaries of the federation account.
The statement laments that as one of the 14 executive bodies recognised by the constitution, RMAFC is one of the most poorly funded, compared to sister bodies like Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), National Population Commission, National Assembly and others.
