Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye said the ₦1.5bn earmarked for projects in her ministry in 2024 met outstanding bills in the ministry.
Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on July 15, 2024Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has lamented the paucity of funds in her minister, saying she will approach the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to seek support in paying some contractors who executed projects for her ministry.
“The Perm Sec has called for a committee either to use what they call PICA which is where we will write to the finance to assist us pay these liabilities because we can’t pay. We don’t have money.“Or we move some of them to ongoing projects in 2024. Any of them that fall within that, they will get paid. I am seriously on this. I wouldn’t want people to do work and be suffering but my hands were tied; I couldn’t do much because of lack of funds.
The committee had summoned the minister over allegations in her ministry after some contractors petitioned the committee, alleging non-payment for contracts they had executed for the ministry.On Monday, the minister said the lawmakers didn’t give her time to explain herself and that she was shouted down.
She added that the ₦1.5bn earmarked for projects in her ministry in 2024 met outstanding bills in the ministry.“The ₦1.5bn, before it came, they were owing double of that, and they started paying people that gradually,” she said.
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