The Executive has proposed to spend N1,030,458,453 on the
State House Clinic under the Presidency’s total estimate of N51,445,678,808 in
the 2018 Budget proposal.
The clinic came under focus recently when the President’s
wife, Hajia Aisha Buhari, criticised it for being without “ordinary syringe”
and unable to treat anyone. The breakdown of the State House Medical Centre’s
expenditure includes the proposed allocation of N408 million for medical
equipment, N146 million for the completion of the dental wing’s extension and
N120 million for construction of two blocks of 24 units three bedroom flats.
The National
Assembly is expected to begin the screening of the budget next week. Approval
is likely to be end of the year so as to return the country to the
January-December budget cycle. The
details of the National Assembly’s N125 billion estimate remain undisclosed.
That has been the case since 1999 in spite of the leadership’s transparency
promise.
Some expenditure to
be undertaken at the Presidency include N145 million for food stuff / catering
materials supplies, N165 million for maintenance of motor vehicle / transport
equipment, N132 million on fuel & lubricants, N67 million for vehicles’ fuel,
N45 million for generator fuel, N18 million on gas, N135,668,651 on refreshment
& meals while honorarium & sitting allowance is to take N478,313,996. Also,
ongoing rehabilitation work on the Presidency’s animal enclosure and
procurement of its veterinary lab equipment is to cost N12,489,655,
upgrade of the presidential villa ranch and construction of wildlife mini-zoo
is proposed at a cost of N28,908,625 while N24 million is for local flowers’
nursery, irrigation and upgrade of a helipad grass field.
Also, annual
routine maintenance of mechanical/electrical installations at the Presidential
villa is proposed for N4,860,392,146, outstanding liabilities on routine
maintenance and other services for 2016 is allocated N565. 6 million while N83.
7 million is allocated for the purchase of tyres for bullet proof vehicles,
trucks, jeeps, ambulance and other utility vehicles. The routine maintenance of
State House Lagos facilities (Dodan Barracks, VP Residence/Guest Houses at
Ikoyi) is to be undertaken at a cost of N145,869,150 under the 2018 national
budget.
Also proposed is
over N25.5 billion to be spent on surveillance activities across the country.Nigeria
will be strengthening its security architecture with some high tech
surveillance infrastructure in 2018. In the vanguard of this intense
surveillance operation is the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) that
plans to purchase a social media minning suite for N2,213,456,360. Also in
2018, the DSS has proposed to spend N 1,006,200,000 on surveillance drones with
precision camera and IMSI payload capabilities.
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