Minister of Well being and Social and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate has revealed that solely 15.06 p.c of the entire allocation was launched to the ministry in 2024 for capital tasks.
The minister made this recognized when he appeared earlier than the Home of Representatives Joint Committee on Well being to defend the 2025 funds of the ministry.
He, nevertheless, blamed the delay within the launch and money backing of its capital allocation on the bottom-up money plan coverage of the Workplace of the Accountant Normal of the Federation.
In keeping with him, the entire funds to the ministry in 2024 stood at N242, 141,830,564.51. Thai consists of N7, 476,463,610 for personnel, N998, 739,547 for overhead and N233, 656,627,407.51 for capital.
The minister added that the quantity was barely improved on within the 2025 funds estimates to N10,361, 373,890.69 for personnel, N1,590, 382,403 for overhead and N248,316, 907,133 for capital.
He identified that the ministry was but to obtain a single Kobo from the N57.393 billion captured underneath the multilateral/bilateral mortgage for capital tasks.
“Out of the N233.656 billion allotted to the Ministry for capital tasks in 2024, solely N26. 552 billion had been launched to the Ministry and utilised,” Pate lamented.
He defined additional that the insurance policies and methods of the 2025 funds are derivable from the 2025-2027 Medium Time period Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Technique Paper which define the event priorities of the federal government.
Pate added: “The 12 months 2025 proposed funds of the ministry was ready utilizing the funds preparation system on the GIFTS platform which is appropriate with the Nationwide Improvement Plan 2021-2025 method which demand justification and allocation of assets to tasks and programmes Inna given 12 months primarily based on wants and aligning with the coverage of presidency, particularly as encapsulated within the core targets and execution priorities.
“The Federal Ministry of Well being funds proposal for 2025 relies on the Nationwide Well being Coverage 2016 and is guided by the brand new Strategic Blueprint Initiative that are the well being sector coverage devices for reaching the ministerial deliverables of the federal authorities and the worldwide agenda of common well being protection.”
