A review of the Ekiti State 2025 proposed budget has shown that the state government plans to spend N1.8 billion to build new governor and deputy governor’s lodge in Abuja.
The government had earlier planned to spend N520million on the same purpose in its 2024 supplementary budget but was yet to spend any amount between January and August 2024, before it then upped the figure to N1.8billion in its 2025 budget estimates.
The project was earmarked under the office of the Bureau of Special Projects. In the same year, the government plans to spend N400million on renovation, furnishing government house, it plans to spend N25 million on renovation of the Presidential Lodge inside the Government House in Ado-Ekiti.
Another N100million is budgeted by the state for purchase of household equipment such as gas cookers, blenders, air conditioners, refrigerators, dish washers for the Government House in Ado-Ekiti.
The state also plans to spend N1.5 billion to spend vehicles for political office holders in the state in 2025.
While the state government plans to spend N1.8billion on lodge for governor and deputy governor in Abuja, it plans to spend only N1billion on extension of electricity/installation of transformers at different communities across the state, the state government budgeted N1.5billion for rehabilitation of 2.5km Oro-Alanaka, Imoba road Efon Alaye, Efon local government in the state.
The state also plans to spend N600million on rehabilitation of 19km Ita Ido-Ido Okemesi junction road, Ekiti West LGA, which means that the N1.8 billion to be spent on the governor and deputy governor’s lodges will rehabilitate three of such roads.
There have been concerns on prudence of states in management of resources especially also on issues around accountability and transparency in management of such resources.
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