{"id":5960,"date":"2025-11-11T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pillartoday.ng\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:54:40","slug":"accountability-activist-questions-utilization-of-n3-7bn-by-ikom-lga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=5960","title":{"rendered":"Accountability: Activist Questions Utilization of N3.7bn by Ikom LGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prince Odey Oyama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Anietie Akpan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights and environmental defender Prince Odey Oyama has questioned the utilization of the \u20a63.7bn that accrued to Ikom Local Government Area (LGA) from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in eight months.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement made available to Pillar Today, Oyama accordingly called on the Executive Chairman of Ikom LGA \u201cto publish her administration\u2019s blueprint, budget, and financial records in line with transparency and accountability standards\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Oyama cited official FAAC data showing that \u201cIkom LGA received over \u20a63.7 billion between November 2024 and June 2025, yet the reported projects appear to be worth less than \u20a650 million\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The activist urged the Council to release details of all allocations, expenditures, and projects, and confirmed TV that copies of his request have been forwarded to the President, EFCC, ICPC, IGP, and the Press for action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the need for the publication of the budget and receipts from FAAC by the Chairman is for the collective interest of the Ikom people and transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Odey Oyama By Anietie Akpan Human rights and environmental defender Prince Odey Oyama has questioned the utilization of the \u20a63.7bn that accrued to Ikom Local Government Area (LGA) from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in eight months. In a statement made available to Pillar Today, Oyama accordingly called on the Executive Chairman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}