Reps Query Water Resources Ministry Over A ₦25m Borehole Cost, ₦4bn On Recruitment

The Public Accounts Committee, PAC, Of the House of Representatives currently investigating Ministries Departments and Agencies MDAs of the Federal Government on the alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 intervention funds from 2020-2022 has queried the Federal Ministry of Water Resources for reportedly sinking borehole between N25 million and N12.5million naira per unit describing it as unacceptable.

The Committee being Chaired by Rep Bamidele Salam (PDP-OSUN) also picked holes in the N4bn reportedly spent by the Ministry on the recruitment of 100 personnel for period of three months for a project known as Youth Engagement for Sanitation (YES) across the 774 local government areas in the country.

The Permanent Secretary, of the Ministry Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack told the Committee that the boreholes were sunk in some locations across the states of the Federation and the federal Capital Territory FCT Abuja.

According to the Permanent Secretary, “in total, 299 new water schemes were embarked upon during the period just as a total of 188 rehabilitations old and abandoned solar boreholes were resuscitated during the period and that that each state of the federation received 10million naira intervention items.