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Budget: Power ministry didn’t prioritise Mambilla power project – Zainab Ahmed

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has said that the Mambila Power Project was not removed from the budget of the Ministry of Power but, rather, it was not prioritised by the Ministry of Power when it submitted it’s 2021 budget.

The minister disclosed this during a budget defense session with the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, according to a statement on Wednesday by Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, her SA Media & Communications.

She said ministries were given a budget envelope within which to prepare their budgets and only priority projects are adopted.

“Every Ministry/MDA has an envelope and they are supposed to prioritize their budget based on their allocation. The ministry does not decide for ministries what their priorities should be,” she said.

The Senate had earlier expressed displeasure when it discovered that the much talked about Mambila Power Project was not captured by the Federal Government in the 2021 Budget.

This was after the Minister of Power, Mamman Sale, appeared before the Senate Committee on Power for the 2021 budget defence session of the ministry and its agencies.

The Mambila Power Project was designed to help improve power generation and supply in Nigeria. The hydropower project has a generation capacity of 3,050 Mega Watt (MG), when completed.

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