https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LabmmLaMyM

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement has decried the poor allocation to the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPE) for monitoring and surveillance of projects in the 2022 budget.

The committee members, during the budget defence session on Tuesday, expressed dissatisfaction with the allocation of N28.5 million to the Bureau to monitor all federal government projects, describing it as insufficient.

The Chairman of the Committee, Ali Nasiru (APC, Kano), while asking the Director General of BPP, Mamman Ahmadu, about the performance of the 2022 budget, flagged the allocation to surveillance and monitoring aspect of the bureau’s budget.

“The surveillance of all Federal Government’s projects has an allocation of N28.5 million. Is that the amount that you are supposed to use for surveillance of all government projects for the year 2022? Are you talking about the 36 states of Nigeria?

“I am sure all these projects run into thousands of projects. Are you saying N28.5 million is the only funding that you have for monitoring of all projects?” he said.

Responding to the questions, Mr Ahmadu said the allocation is not sufficient though the bureau is working within its enveloped budget.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/565701-budget-reps-panel-decries-allocation-of-n28-million-to-bpe-for-project-monitoring.html

From top to bottom
From fire to pan

What else do you expect? Birds of the same features flying together!

Budget is an estimate of what is required.
Why should Rep query the ESTIMABLE?

orisa37:
Budget is an estimate of what is required.
Why should Rep query the ESTIMABLE?

Are you kidding me?

Why don't they underestimate on Aso Rock upkeep or on the subsidy allocation they've been stealing?

Do you know how many abandoned projects there are in Nigeria, some of which are fully paid capital projects running into billions of Nigeria? A whopping 56,000 projects. Yes, you heard right. Fifty six thousand (56,000) projects funded by tax payers' money have been left halfway or not started at all.

And I bet most of these were awarded to ghost contractors fronted by lawmakers or their relatives.

Let's even start by empowering those to monitor the newly awarded set of projects with adequate allocation so we can hold them accountable when they fail to deliver