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Nigerian Senate Queries N800 Million Security Vote For Inland Waterways
The Nigerian Senate, yesterday, queried the sum of N800 million budgeted
for the purchase of security equipment by the Nigeria Inland Waterways
Authority (NIWA).
The lawmakers made its position to the Acting Managing Director, Danladi
Ibrahim, when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Marine Transport to
defend the agency’s 2018 budget.
The panel wondered why the agency requested for N800 million in the 2018
budget for the purchase of security equipment, which was the same amount it
received in the 2017 budget for the same purpose.
The committee noted that out of the N800 million, the agency had spent
N790 million in 2017, which amounts to over 90 per cent of the appropriated
sum.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, noted that the agency
failed to provide details and specifications of how it plans to spend the money
it requested for in the 2018 budget.
Yerima noted: “You said you want to do something; the same amount last
year, the same amount this year. There are no details, no explanations, no form
of specification whatsoever. This is unacceptable.”
Another member of the committee, Senator Mohammed Hassan, said Ibrahim
and his team should be asked to go back and do the right thing.
He said: “You are doing construction, the locations are not known. You
have a project of N1.2 billion which you requested for in 2017, you have
received over 90 per cent, you requested for the same amount in 2018. The right
thing should have been for you to request for the balance.”
On his part, NIWA boss told the committee that the security equipment was
not meant for one place alone. He also said the 2017 approval was the first
time the authority was receiving fund for capital projects.
The committee, thereafter, asked the representatives of the agency to go
back and do the right thing.
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