The Jigawa State Ministry of Special Duties allocated the sum of N61 million for the purchase of utility vehicles and office furniture for the ministry.
The commissioner of the ministry, Alhaji Auwalu Danladi Sankara, revealed this while defending the ministry’s 2025 budget estimate in the State House of Assembly. He said the proposed amount to be spent in fiscal year 2025 is N61 million.
The commissioner, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Dutse, who appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties, said: “The amount will be spent on the procurement of work equipment, office furniture, renovation and purchase of utility vehicles.”
The Ministry of Special Duties was created at the end of the second term of the last administration and currently has no official vehicle and lacks adequate office equipment.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the Committee, member representing Dutse constituency, Honorable Ishaq Tasi’u, expressed his commitment to working with the ministry to achieve the desired objectives.
The committee chairman also said that the committee would study the possibility of reversing the Ramadan Food Program and the distribution of palliatives to the ministry by the State Emergency Management Agency.