Assembly Gives D243m More To Works To Renovate Government Quarters, Others

The Finance and Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly has requested that D243,278,251.00 be added to the budget of the Ministry of Transport, Works and Infrastructure for the construction of government residence quarters, renovation of the Ministry’s building, consultancy and road maintenance, among others.

The Ministry of Works’s budget is D1.809 billion.

FPAC however made a request for an extra amount of D243,278,251.00 for the augmentation of the following budget lines: D10M for road maintenance; D50M for construction of government residence quarters; D5M for the renovation of the Ministry’s building; D25M for consultancy; D25M for Land Compensation and an extra amount of D128,279,251.00 for roads and bridges.

Lawmakers also made recommendations for the allocation of additional funds to purchase vehicles for a number of officials in several government institutions as follows; D4.5M  for  the head of University of Education;  D3.5M  for Reparations Commission, D9M for the National Agency for Legal Aid (NALA) and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Secretariat (ADRS), and  an additional D6.2M, for the Public Service Commission (PSC) for the purchase of two vehicles for the Vice Chairperson, and for operations.

Lawmakers further proposed an additional support of D17M for the National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) comprising D14,000,000 for operations including purchase of a Pickup and a vehicle for the chairperson.