The Presidency will next
year spend N34.5m on two wild animals for the State House Zoo
and car trackers for presidential ground fleet as well as utility vehicles.
Out of the sum, N14.5m
was set aside in the 2014 budget as the cost of the two animals
whose names were not given and N20m for the trackers.
Extra N2m is expected to be expended
on two fleet tracking base stations.
These are contained in the details of
the Appropriation bill presented by President Goodluck Jonathan through the
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to the National Assembly last
week.
Also contained in the
plan is the sum of N50m for the improvement
of electrical installations inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
Apart from the amount earmarked for
the animals, N8m is budgeted for the upgrading and maintenance of
the State House zoo. The renovation of the horses’ stables/paddock
for the zoo will gulp N15m.
About N5m will also be
spent on the purchase of wildlife capture equipment.
The N50m was appropriated at a time
work is already ongoing on new N2.2bn banquet hall approved for the Villa by
the Federal Executive Council in November 2012.
The electrification project was
however marked “ongoing” in the budget details to give an indication that work
had already started and would be completed under the new budget.
Projects that will be carried out in
the State House Medical Centre in the new year include the building and
installation of oxygen/other gases generating plant at N70m;
construction of VIP Wing -N1.3bn; completion of extension of Dental Wing, N50m;
construction of central sterilising building,N50m and the provision of MRI
building and mortuary conversion at the cost of N17.5m.
An X-ray machine will be
purchased at a cost of N35m; mammography machine, N60m; embalming
machine, N1.65m and hydraulic post-mortem table,N4m.
The purchase of sports kits for the
State House Sports Club will gulp N4. 2m.
The remodeling of the new
Vice-President’s Guest House at 1, Yakubu Gowon, Crescent, Asokoro will
gulp N215m; completion and rehabilitation of security quarters at Mpape
Artillery and Asokoro, N30m; rehabilitation of
Presidential/ministerial chalet at Airport, Abuja, N10m; and the rehabilitation
of medical centre’s service quarters, N50m.
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