The Kwara State government has called on Ministries, Departments and Agencies to ensure proper monitoring and evaluation of their budget for seamless growth and development of the state economy.
The state Commissioner of Planning and Economic Development, Alh. Wasiu Odewole gave the charge while addressing staffers of his ministry on their core responsibilities in ilorin on Monday.
He tasked all the MDAs to collaborate with staff of his ministry to assist them in their budget preparation and evaluation by giving them the necessary information needed to work with.
He said ” The essence of this meeting is to charge our staff to put more efforts in their work as a serving ministry to others, and improving the state IGR to meet up with our target.
“For the first time the state is running January to December 2018 budget done by the management and staff of the ministry. We are appealing to staff to double their efforts and we will compensate them accordingly.”
Odewole however debunked the allegations that some ministries in the state are operating without power supply and monthly subvention.
He said, ” We asked each ministry to examine the level of power supply they are consuming with regards to their budget for it and they did that.
” When I came onboard last week my Permanent Secretary told me that they are investigating some ministries because some of them consumes above the power supply allotted to them from the budget.
“Also some ministries are not checking their monthly power supply bills from the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company which is supposed to be N10,000 but today the reality on ground is N25,000 monthly. They are giving N20,000 but what they are consuming is N10,000 so we have not rationalise auditing that consumption.
” What we saw in the first quarter is the report of the budget but we are working along that line now to correct abnormalities. I can tell you that it has to do with funds managing by each ministry.
On allocation to various ministries, he stressed that the state government is releasing funds to the ministries as at when due, but the cost of governance instead of reducing it some ministries are instead increasing their demands.
“We are investigating and monitoring their expenditure line because funds are given based on the allocation and internally generated revenue we are receiving. If some of the ministries are not getting money we are auditing them to know whether they are complying or going beyond their expenditure,” he added.
