Aso Villa Clinic have insisted it
did not receive any capital allocation in 2017.
Permanent Secretary of the State
House, Jalal Arabi, said this in a statement issued on Sunday.
Arabi said this could be verified
from the Ministries of Finance and Budget and National Planning.
“The attention of the presidency
has been drawn to recent media reports suggesting that the State House Medical
Centre had received N11.01billion as appropriation for the period 2015-2017.
“According to the permanent
secretary, State House, Jalal A. Arabi, contrary to the above claims, out of
the total capital appropriation of N2.9 billion and recurrent appropriation of
N465 million for the period under reference, only the sum of N969 million
(representing 32.97%) for capital and N225 million (representing 48.41%) for
recurrent was actually released.
“It may interest the public to
know that there was zero capital allocation for the medical centre in 2017,
while out of the N331 million being the recurrent appropriation for 2017, the
actual amount released up to September was N91 million (representing only
27.54%),” read the statement signed by Attah Esa, Deputy Director of
Information, at the State House.
The statement added that despite
the shortfalls between budgetary provisions and actual releases, the medical
centre provided free services to the “over 10,000 registered patients”
annually.
“In addition, the centre has
continued to execute on-going projects.
“Apart from the presidency, other
beneficiaries of the free services include political appointees, the military,
para-military, other security agencies, members of the national assembly, and
the general public,” it read.
“Considering the unrestricted
patronage base and free services of the State House Medical Centre, coupled
with the funding hiccups and periodic receipts, it may not be far-fetched to
notice gaps between demand and supply of medical equipment and consumables at
certain stages of the budget circle,” it added.
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