EXCLUSIVE: Ondo Government Budgets N245million To Buy Two SUVs For Assembly Speaker, Deputy, N107million For Primary Healthcare

Probitas5 months ago664 min

This would mean that the state plans to spend N122.5 million for each vehicle meant for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.

A review of the budget performance documents has shown that the Ondo State government budgeted the sum of N245million to buy two Lexus jeeps for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.

 

This would mean that the state plans to spend N122.5 million for each vehicle meant for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.

 

This development on budgeting over a hundred and twenty million each on jeep for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker is despite calls for states in Nigeria to reduce cost of governance. 

 

The state also only budgeted N107 million for its primary healthcare management board capital expenditure for the whole of 2024, and plans to spend more than twice the money on buying Lexus Jeeps for the speaker and deputy speaker.

 

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that 66% of households in the state lack access to sanitary facilities, 51% of households lack access to clean drinking water, all of whom can be made better with the funds meant to buy jeeps for the house of assembly speaker and deputy speaker.

 

In the last one year, on multiple occasions, workers in the state have protested against non-payment of salary.

 

As of May 2024, the Ondo State hospital, University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital workers protested against non-payment of their salaries arrears.

 

Only N500 million was budgeted for the Amotekun corps capital expenditure in the whole 2024 fiscal year, yet about 50% equivalent of this money is planned to be used to buy Jeeps for two persons (the speaker and deputy speaker).

 

Ondo State spent N8 billion on debt servicing in first six months of 2024, showing its debt crisis,thus suggesting the need to manage scarce resources properly.

 

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