The Federal Ministry of Interior has been added to the list
of five ministries that have complained of zero or little capital disbursement
in the country’s 2025 budget.
The Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said his
ministry received zero capital budget allocation for two consecutive fiscal
years, 2024 and 2025.
Tunji-Ojo made the revelation during a recent budget
defense session before the joint committees of the Senate and the House of
Representatives in Abuja.
His comment further confirms Nigeria’s state of cash crunch
in the last two fiscal years.
Tunji-Ojo described the situation as a major setback to
project implementation and infrastructure development under the ministry.
“For two consecutive years, we have recorded zero percent
capital release,” he told lawmakers, noting that performance on capital
projects equally stood at zero percent, he said.
Recall that the Ministers of Health, Justice,
Power, Transportation, Women Affairs, and Social Development had complained of
zero and little release of capital budget allocation in 2025.
This comes ahead of the National Assembly’s move to approve
Nigeria’s 2026 Appropriation Bill of N58.18 trillion, presented by President
Tinubu in December 2025.
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