Federal Ministry Of Communication to spend N158.3m on refreshments and fumigation (Details, pics)

The Ministry of Communications Technology and  one of its affiliate parastatals the Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited, NigComSat  has proposed to spend N158.3 million for  travelling, fumigation, refreshment and miscellaneous purposes in the 2018 fiscal year.

This was contained in the  2018 appropriation bill submitted by the federal government to the National Assembly.

The Ministry proposed that the amount in the appropriation bill will  enable it carry out the listed items in the fiscal year.

Of the amount, the ministry and NigComsat are going to spend N48,334,551 on travel; N26,758,697 on fumigation; N42,672,391 on miscellaneous expenses; N8,911,615 on refreshment/meals  and the sum of N31,600,000 on electricity charges.

The amount is N14,290,188 lesser than the N172,566,975 approved for the ministry and two agencies only for travelling in the 2017 estimation.

The budget estimate which  allocated N11,716,581,495 for recurrent expenditure and N7,544,159,142 for capital projects, totaling N19.261 billion for the ministry and the two parastatals in the year. This is N510,644,861 higher than   the  N18,750,951,876  allocated to the same ministry in 2017.