The Presidency is to spend the sum of N1,578,493,453 on computers and related items next year.
The sum is expected to
cover the procurement of items listed under office stationery/computer
consumables, computer software acquisition, and purchase of computers
and printers in the offices of the President and the Vice-President, as
well as some agencies listed under the Presidency.
The agencies include the
Border Communities Development Agency, Bureau for Public Enterprises,
Bureau for Public Procurement, National Emergency Management Agency,
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
Nigeria Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative and National Institute for Strategic Studies,
Jos.
Others are the National
Boundary Commission, National Atomic Energy Agency and Office of the
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Millennium Development
Goals.
Out of the N1.5bn, the
Federal Government is proposing N508m for the procurement of office
stationery and another N95m for the acquisition of computer software by
the State House Headquarters.
The sums of N332.9m and
N175m were proposed for office stationery and computer consumables for
the offices of the President and Vice-President, respectively.
An additional sum of
N30m was proposed for the purchase and installation of “Computer
Associates CA IT Services Management System” in the year 2013 budget
estimates.
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