The Zamfara State Authorities has refuted the declare that it budgeted N19.3 billion for buying kitchen tools in 2024, stating that faux information is meant to mislead the general public.
On Tuesday, a web-based platform (not the PUNCH)) reported {that a} overview of the Zamfara State finances efficiency doc confirmed that the state budgeted the quoted quantity to buy kitchen and canteen tools for the 2024 fiscal yr.
In a response throughout a press briefing in Gusau, the the state capital, the state Commissioner for Finances and Planning, Mallam Abdulmalik Gajam, expressed disappointment within the deceptive report.
Gajam supplied particulars of the breakdown of the N19.3 billion budgeted for tasks beneath the Ministry of Training.
He stated, “The information platform that peddled the faux information pushed half-baked statistics, omitting the important info from the entire finances efficiency doc.”
“The breakdown of 19.3 billion was budgeted beneath the Ministry of Training, and it’s beneath the class of capital expenditure.
“The title canteen & kitchen is a set asset buy the coded title of a specific class of a number of expenditures which comprise a provision on the agile program, building of zonal major faculties, provision of sensible major college in Gusau, procurement of kitchen utensil for all authorities college for 40 million naira, building of academics coaching centre and creation of academics growth funding scheme.
“All this put collectively is what constituted 19.3 billion.”
The commissioner additional confused that Governor Daudu Lawal’s administration got here to scale back the abuse of public funds and block leakages.
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