Ekiti State Government Provides Zero Funding To 35 Agencies For Capital Projects
While some agencies obtained no funding for projects, SaharaReporters previously reported awards of contracts price billions of naira to everlasting secretaries.
A SaharaReporters’ review of the Ekiti Convey audited financial assertion for the year ended December 2024 has shown that thirty-5 authorities agencies obtained no funding for his or her capital expenditure.
The review means that the total capital budget for the affected agencies and departments stood at N3.3 billion.
The affected workplaces consist of: Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Deputy Governor’s Office, Fair Project Monitoring Office, Ekiti Convey Boundary Commission, Ekiti Convey Mortgage Board, Ekiti Convey Liaison Office, Abuja, Ekiti Convey Liaison Office, Lagos, Ekiti Convey Muslim Board, Capital Style Authority, and Ekiti Convey Pensions Board.
Others consist of: Ministry of Files and Values Orientation, Office of Establishment and Carrier Matters, Office of Capability Style and Reforms, Ekiti Convey Civil Carrier Commission, Office of Political and Economic Affairs, Directorate of Farm Settlement and Peasant Farmers Style, and Central Interior Audit.
Various listed agencies and departments consist of: Technical Adviser on Ekiti Files Zone, Office of Human Capital Style and Allied Matters, Ekiti Convey Mineral Resources Style Agency, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Ekiti Convey Housing Company, Office of Public Defender, Ministry of Regional and Special Responsibilities, Ekiti Convey Library Board, Ekiti Convey Belief Fund, Agency for Grownup and Non-Formal Education, Ekiti Convey College of Neatly being Science and Technology, Ijero, Ekiti, Ekiti Convey Board for Technical and Vocational Education, and Ekiti Convey Educating Carrier Commission.
Others are: Ekiti College Educating Clinical institution, Ekiti Pills Neatly being Provide Management, Ministry of Local Authorities Affairs, and Ministry of Chieftaincy and House Affairs.
While some agencies obtained no funding for projects, SaharaReporters previously reported awards of contracts price billions of naira to everlasting secretaries.
As an illustration, the “Provide and Installation of an Instrument Landing System” on the Ekiti Convey airport mission, costing N3.3 billion, turn into once awarded to a “Eternal Secretary.”
The procuring company turn into once listed because the “Ministry of Transportation.” Yet every other contract for the procurement of 1 eighteen-seater Sunray bus and 4 Bajaj motorcycles, costing N75.1 million, turn into once also awarded to a “Eternal Secretary.”
Yet every other contract for the “2d Allotment of Establishment of a Typical Meteorological Place of dwelling” turn into once listed as awarded for N45 million by the order authorities.
The contractor turn into once, nevertheless, listed as a “Eternal Secretary.” Various contracts awarded to everlasting secretaries incorporated a contract for Interior Electrification and Installation of a 1MVA, 33/0.415KVA Transformer at Ekiti Convey Cargo Airport, estimated at N281.731 million.
Yet every other contract turn into once awarded for the Installation of Terminal Floodlights/Photo voltaic Streetlights at Ekiti Airport on the assign of N275.9 million.
Others incorporated the contract for the Extension of a 33KVA Devoted Line from the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, to Ekiti Convey Cargo Airport, awarded on the assign of N280 million to a “Eternal Secretary”; the Provide of Portacabins and Various Items Indispensable for the Establishment of a Police Security Post at Ekiti Convey Cargo Airport, which assign N75.3 million; and the Provision of Further Office Spaces for Airways and Companies at Ekiti Convey Airport, which assign N42.9 million.
Yet every other contract for the Growth of Four Commentary Spots at Ekiti Convey Airport turn into once awarded on the assign of N31 million.
The order authorities also awarded two contracts for airport operational and a quantity of equipment at N1.162 billion every, totaling N2.324 billion; they were, nevertheless, awarded to a “Eternal Secretary.”
The awarding of contracts to the place of commercial of “Eternal Secretaries” suggests a lack of a aggressive bidding course of by the order authorities in the award of contracts.
