Records Show Nigeria’s Federal Ministry Of Justice Spends N403million In One Day To Renovate Toilets
The review shows that in March 2024, the sum of N1.904billion was recorded as used to purchase motor vehicles.
Areview of the public payments portal, Govspend, has shown that the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice under the Attorney-General, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, spent N403million on renovating toilets in one day.
On June 27, 2024, the sum of N158million was paid for the renovation of toilets in the Federal Ministry of Justice headquarters.
On same June 27, the sum of N245 million was paid to optional concepts limited for renovation of toilets.
In all, renovating toilets took N403 million in one day.
The staggering sum of N403 million expended on toilet renovations could have been used to renovate 66 blocks of three classrooms each, at a cost of N6.1 million per block, as evidenced by government records on the GovSpend platform.
Alternatively, this substantial allocation could have facilitated the construction of 51 solar-powered boreholes, considering each borehole requires an investment of N7.8 million.
Days ago, SaharaReporters reported that the President Bola Tinubu-led Presidency under the “State House” spent the sum of N9.2billion on motor vehicles between March and May 2024.
The review shows that in March 2024, the sum of N1.904billion was recorded as used to purchase motor vehicles.
In May, another sum of N7.3billion was spent to buy motor vehicles by the State House, totalling N9.2billion in the three-month period.
SaharaReporters also earlier revealed how the Tinubu led Presidency spent N366 million on tyres in three days among other seemingly frivolous expenses.
It was found that N366million was spent on tyres in three days and the payments were made on May 21, 2024, June 22, 2023, and June 24, 2023.
Nigeria’s Justice Ministry Spends N158Million To Renovate Toilets
Before now, Sahareporters reported how the Tinubu-led administration spent billions on purchasing foreign exchange for travels and rehabilitation of Presidential buildings.
Also the Presidency was noted as spending N1.5 billion for foreign exchange on July 17,2024.
This has added to the high level of scrutiny of the current administration fiscal discipline.
The development comes at a time when there are concerns on prudence of the government in managing its scarce resources.
It also comes amid plea for debt relief by the Nigerian government, signalling a dire need for more revenue and better management of resources by it.
Nigeria’s debt stands at N121 trillion as of the first quarter of 2024 while it continues to grapple with poor economic made harder by inflation.
Experts have warned that there may be dire consequences if the government does not regulate how it spends the nation’s scarce resources.
Nigeria suffers from myriad of challenges from access to healthcare, water, roads, electricity and other basic needs, which stakeholders opine that the government can exert its efforts on instead.
