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The Enugu State Government has expressed dismay over a report in the December 19, 2024 edition of the Punch Newspaper stating that the government earmarked N55bn for the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of urban and rural roads in the state’s 2025 budget proposal by Governor Peter Mbah, while allocating N50.27bn to the Office of the Governor.

The government in a statement signed by the senior special assistant to the governor on mainstream media, Dan Nwomeh, described the report authored by Punch’s reporter, Raphael Ede, as misleading and borne out of deliberate mischief, pointing out that the actual provision for urban and rural roads in the state’s 2025 budget estimates presented to the House of Assembly on November 26, 2024 is the sum of N213,129,267,000 (Two hundred and thirteen billion, one hundred and twenty million, two hundred and sixty-seven thousand naira), not N55,000,000,000 (fifty-five billion naira) as misrepresented.

“It beggars belief that a reporter who supposedly witnessed the budget presentation by the governor at the House of Assembly chamber and thereafter filed the report published in the paper’s edition of November 26, 2024 (punchng.com/enugu-gov-pres…) would concoct this N55bn figure from nowhere.

“In his budget speech, the governor clearly stated inter alia: ‘The total Capital Expenditure for the year 2025 is projected at N837,944,000,000.00…. In the area of Works and Infrastructure, we will continue our relentless advance towards our target to build or refurbish all key roads across the state by 2031. In line with this, we will spend a total of N213,120,267,000.00 in 2025,”” the government statement read.

According to the government also, the 2025 budget breakdown presented by the State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Barr. Chris-Roberts Ozongwu, at a press conference on December 19, 2024, was consistent with the one earlier presented by the governor, wondering why the reporter failed to seek clarification from the Commissioner or crosscheck from previous reports authored by him if he was confused.

“It should be noted that this same reporter had authored a report published in the August 4, 2024 edition of Punch titled ‘Enugu approves N183bn for road projects’ (punchng.com/enugu-approves…) in which he reported that “the Enugu State government has approved the sum of N183bn for the construction of 141 roads across the Enugu metropolis and 20 rural roads across the three senatorial zones of the state.” How did the N183bn announced by the state in one fell swoop in August 2024 and the N213bn contained in the governor’s budget of November 2024 for the same purpose suddenly plummet to N55 billion in December 2024?”, the government queried.

It further clarified that the allocations of N50.27bn for the Office of the Governor, N665.71bn for the Office of the Deputy Governor’, and N3.42bn for the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, as highlighted in the Punch report, were not for the personal uses and comforts of the governor, the deputy governor, and the secretary to the state government as wrongly implied in the report, saying they were for recurrent and capital needs of the numerous departments and agencies under those offices.

“The allocation for the governor’s office is for recurrent and capital purposes, including provisions for state security, operational vehicles for the ministries, departments and agencies, the Project Development and Implementation Unit, which undertakes special intervention projects, and others. Several government departments and agencies are typically domiciled in the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, and this also true of the Office of the Deputy Governor.

https://x.com/DanNwomeh/status/1870146184309838335?t=YyLKg2VH63k0PywKYH3H4Q&s=19

Holly Gram Kai !! See the kind amount of money way our polithiefcians de allocate, yet nothing to show for it.


See as December period be like wer people de do night vigil.


Everywhere dry like DRY FISH. Kai !!

I no even see any nearby party to relax and high up.


LITE UP my WEED in peace


WTF MAN!

Budget of demolition

Mbah flagged off
Abakpa Nike-Ugwuogo -opi road without

Mobilization
No equipment in site
Nothing

Just the funfair and usual Media hype.

Audio contracts

These are just smoke screen for impending embezzlement.

How can you budget hundreds billions for roads the previous year and still be budgeting another hundreds of billions for the same road projects the following year.


The roads you came and met in power, has not expired, yet you keep budgeting year in year out

Is it the amount that should be the issue or what is done with the money?

lol.

No wonder this government is doing an outstanding job with roads in the city. I hope the rural parts of the state are benefiting too.

Okay... So, the real and pressing question remains:


How much of that money will be diverted?!! 50% or 80%?!!

OK

Stop giving money to government

is this "It further clarified that the allocations of N50.27bn for the Office of the Governor, N665.71bn for the Office of the Deputy Governor’, and N3.42bn for the Office of the Secretary to the State Government"an error or wha, beacuse I cant understand

Enugu state governor is trying in road construction unlike gburu Gburu that was sleeping throughout his eight years in power ...Enugu had it bad menh ...buharia was sleeping in Abuja and Ifeanyi was sleeping in enugu state

I want local contractor on these projects. Let us continue to build capacity!

Boogyman557:
Holly Gram Kai !! See the kind amount of money way our polithiefcians de allocate, yet nothing to show for it.


See as December period be like wer people de do night vigil.


Everywhere dry like DRY FISH. Kai !!

I no even see any nearby party to relax and high up.


LITE UP my WEED in peace


WTF MAN!

Fake guy.

Slawormir wanna be

patchsk:



Fake guy.

Slawormir wanna be

Gees y hate on a legend bro.

The dude is a legend here and we love him.
Na him make us this NL. dude is even popular outside NL. I don’t know y u guys hate on people on here. He never mentioned or comment on any anyone. Dude is many of us mentor so u can get lost

Cashout

ShadowMan667:


Gees y hate on a legend bro.

The dude is a legend here and we love him.
Na him make us this NL. dude is even popular outside NL. I don’t know y u guys hate on people on here. He never mentioned or comment on any anyone. Dude is many of us mentor so u can get lost

Your repetitive mention of "dude" signifies one thing; that you're a deranged human.

How much was allocated to solve water issue that has become a crisis of its own to the state?

patchsk:


Your repetitive mention of "dude" signifies one thing; that you're a deranged human.

Gees what ever u say dude but all I know is stop hating on people on here. New yr is around the corner. We no need this kind energy. Peace and love

They have moved from Otti and soludo to Mbah. Once they start hearing good news about a governor from the east, they unleash the negative propaganda machinery. It has been going on like this for years. Folks are just starting to take notice.

Na your business be that. Just hold your people in your state

ShadowMan667:


Gees what ever u say dude but all I know is stop hating on people on here. New yr is around the corner. We no need this kind energy. Peace and love

Peace key u dia.

Make them sue Punch jawe!

Why dm go dey lie!

Mbalicious is working!

So far so good with Mba. He budgeted this amount and will get to the end of it. He has demonstrated an high level of financial discipline in managing the affairs of the state and he will make it possible.

Some of my friends in enugu informed me how this evil governor is busy destroying people homes to steal their land using the pretense of building roads

See the rubbish wey dem dey vote in

Holly, can you believe the amount of money our politicians misallocate, yet there's nothing to show for it? December feels like a time when people are doing night vigils. Everything is so dry. I can't even find a nearby party to relax and enjoy myself. Just let me unwind in peace!

Those who said Enugu state paid minimum wage, did they also pay tertiary institutions like ESUT?
All dat minimum wage shit na lamba

Lips governor promise water no water yet promised 80k minimum wage has not paid any yet all na wash

Yeah and not a decent kilometer of road in the city.