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A group known as United Global Resolve for Peace (UGRFP) on The Treasury Single Account (TSA) is urging the Federal Government to review charges on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy.

UGREP urged the government to take off the burden from citizens and renegotiate the charges with the technical company, System specs or find another competent company with fair charges, this was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the group’s Executive Director, Shalom Olaseni, who expressed discontentment at the one percent charge made to be paid by the citizens.


Olaseni noted that some agencies of government were yet to comply with the policy as such he called on the government to ensure strict compliance by all MDAs.


The Statement reads “Despite the instruction by President Buhari that all MDAs should remit all the money logged in commercial banks to the TSA through Remita, some agencies like the Nigeria Immigration Service has refused to use this technology that promotes transparency and accountability.


“Ordinarily, one would expect the government that benefits so much from this scheme would encourage other agencies to comply with this unified Treasury Single Account payment gateway.


“Instead, the government has abdicated the responsibility of paying for the cost of running of this scheme and in the process levied the citizens with the burden of payment,”


The group, therefore, demanded that the Federal Government and the CBN must urgently review the exorbitant charges aforementioned and also reverse this new policy where Nigerians have to pay for the running of TSA while ensuring that all agencies were called to order to comply with the policy

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