{"id":16603,"date":"2023-11-10T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=16603"},"modified":"2023-11-10T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:50:30","slug":"governor-hope-uzodinma-makes-false-claim-about-imos-internally-generated-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/governor-hope-uzodinma-makes-false-claim-about-imos-internally-generated-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hope Uzodinma makes false claim about Imo\u2019s internally generated revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLAIM: Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/S59q_xG5Q_Y?t=593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a><strong>, \u201cWhen I came in 2020, we had an internally generated revenue profile of less than N500 million.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FINDING: Internally generated revenue for states published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that Imo state\u2019s internally generated revenue in 2019 was <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nigerianstat.gov.ng\/resource\/2019%20FULL%20YEAR%20IGR%20Data_Revised.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>N16.095 billion<\/strong><\/a><strong>, an average of N1.34 billion monthly. Between October and December 2019, the state generated <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nigerianstat.gov.ng\/resource\/2019%20FULL%20YEAR%20IGR%20Data_Revised.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>N2.99 billion<\/strong><\/a><strong>, an average of N996.67 million. It generated N3.08 billion from January to March 2020, an average of N1.03 billion monthly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"55\" data-attachment-id=\"16176\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-akeredolu-did-not-impeach-two-deputy-governors-in-eight-years\/false-44\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FALSE.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"132,55\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FALSE\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FALSE.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FALSE.png?resize=132%2C55\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16176\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#eb4747\"><strong>VERDICT: FALSE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SOURCES: NBS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State said, \u201cWhen I came in 2020, we had an internally generated revenue profile of less than N500 million.\u201d \u00a0 FINDING: Internally generated revenue for states published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that Imo state\u2019s internally generated revenue in 2019 was N16.095 billion, an average of N1.34 billion monthly. Between October and December 2019, the state generated N2.99 billion, an average of N996.67 million. It generated N3.08 billion from January to March 2020, an average of N1.03 billion monthly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VERDICT: FALSE SOURCES: NBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5,1571,3812,3815,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-16603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4jN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3760,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"nigerian-fact-checkers-coalition-1","display_name":"Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hope-Uzodinma.webp?fit=972%2C565&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16605,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions\/16605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}