Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed
has expressed displeasure over the reduction of budgetary allocation to his
ministry in the 2023 Appropriation Bill.
Lai Mohamed disclosed this when he appeared before the House
of Representatives Committee on Information on Wednesday to defend the
budgetary proposal for the Ministry of Information and Culture.
The minister began by saying, “I want to draw your attention
and that of the members to the fact that the Ministry of Information has been
dealt a very heavy card in this year’s budgetary allocation.
“This year, the capital provision for the entire Ministry of
Information and Culture is N869m, of which only N345m is for the information
arm.”
He further claimed that the allocation to his Ministry is
less than what some States receive, saying he felt helpless with the reduced
budgetary allocation.
“This N345m capital expenditure, I don’t know what to do
with it; I don’t know where to start,” he said.
However, the Chairman of the committee, Segun Odebunmi, and
other members agreed with the minister’s claim.
Odebunmi noted that the budget is not enough for the
Ministry of Information to perform its functions, following the submissions
from other members of the House Committee on Information.
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