Ekiti State Government Awards over N8.6 billion Contracts to Executive Secretaries and Perm Secs

by Olanrewaju Oyedeji

A review of the Ekiti state Open Contracting portal has revealed that the Ekiti state government awarded contracts worth over N8.6 billion without disclosing the contractors for these projects.

The contracts, awarded between 2017 and 2022, number up to over four hundred. The review shows that these contracts have ‘Executive Secretaries and Permanent Secretaries’ as the contractors.

Contracts listed against ‘permanent secretaries’ number up to a hundred and totalled over N6.029 billion while those listed in favour of ‘executive secretaries’ stood at N2.571billion from about three hundred projects.

In one instance, details on the open contracting portal of the state show that a purchase of textbooks worth N72 million by the state was awarded to ‘permanent secretary’ while the class of the organisation that won the contract was listed as “Government organisation”. The contract also did not stipulate the number of textbooks to be purchased for the amount.

In another instance, the renovation exercise for seven general hospitals in the state to the tune of N350 million awarded in 2021 did not have the contractors that carried out the renovations listed, instead the contractor name was listed as ‘permanent secretary’ while the class of the organisation in each case was stated as ‘government organisation”.

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