Senate warns against award of contracts not covered by budgetary allocation!

The Senate Committee on Aviation has warned the Ministry of Aviation, against awarding contracts that are not covered by its budgetary allocation.

The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Hope Uzodinma, gave the warning in Abuja during an oversight visit by members of the Committee.

The warning followed the discovery that contracts awarded by the Ministry under BASA arrangement had over-shot ten billion Naira allocated for the programme in the 2013 budget.

Senator Uzodinma therefore asked the Ministry to forward to the Committee, details of all awarded contracts and loans obtained.

Responding, the Supervising Minister, Mr Samuel Ortom, said due process was followed in the award of the contracts.

It was gathered that the Ministry of Aviation was allocated forty point two billion Naira in the 2013 Budget, out of which twenty point seven billion Naira was released.

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