Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), an Ilorin, Kwara State-based Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has challenged the state government to make public its spendings on capital projects cutting across critical sectors of the state.
The group, in a statement on Tuesday, particularly requested the Governor Abdulrahaman administration to make public the financial and technical details of how public funds have been spent on education, roads and water projects in the last one year.
As stated in the statement signed by its deputy coordinator (administration), Mrs Usman Radhiyyat Taiye, ENetSuD had written a letter to the commissioners in charge of the supervising ministries to make its request.
The group’s deputy director (Project Tracking), Aliu Moshood said ENetSud relied on the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2011 to make its request.
In the request submitted to the Commissioner for Works and Transport, ENetSuD demanded the financial and technical details of all the road infrastructure projects executed by the present administration in the state since May 2019.
Similarly, in the request submitted to the Commissioner for Education, ENetSuD thanked her for previously providing a list of 34 schools under renovation by the present administration and further requested for the financial and technical details on all the 34 schools.
In the request submitted to the Commissioner for Water Resources, ENetSuD requested for the financial and technical details of various projects said to have been listed by the commissioner to have been executed in the last one year.
Some of the projects include the supply of chemicals for water treatment, rehabilitation of various waterworks, provision of boreholes to various communities, repair of existing boreholes in various communities, renovation of 5 elevated tanks, reticulation and interconnection of mainline and rehabilitation of concrete tanks.
Information requested from each ministry on all the projects include the amount budgeted, the contract sum, the actual amount released to each Ministry for execution, the details of all the lawful deductions from the money received.
It also requested for the exact amount released by each ministry to each project contractor, the technical details and scope of each stage of fund that each ministry released to each project contractor (including the payment certificates), the Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation (BEME) or the Bill of Quantity (BoQ) asi t applies to each project.
Others included the engineering drawings and designs of each project, the detailed information of the contractor that the ministry awarded each project to (including phone number and office address), the location of all the projects, and the current status of each project (including the percentage completion).
A copy of the letter submitted to each ministry was sent to the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice so as to ensure compliance with the Provision of the FOI Act 2011 within seven days.
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