Kwara Governor AbdulRazaq To Spend N10billion On Hotel Rehabilitation In 2025 After N13billion Spent Last Year

The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, successful the approved 2025 fund for the authorities plans to walk a sum of ₦10billion for the rehabilitation of Kwara Hotel.

This comes contempt ₦13 cardinal spent connected the aforesaid task successful 2024.

Between October and December 2024 alone, the authorities spent ₦6.4 cardinal connected the hotel’s rehabilitation.

With ₦13 cardinal spent successful 2024 and ₦10 cardinal approved for 2025, a full of ₦23 cardinal volition beryllium allocated to the task implicit 2 years—an summation from the wide reported ₦17.8billion initially approved for the contract.

Despite spending ₦13billion connected the edifice successful 2024, the authorities allocated ₦0 for the operation oregon proviso of nationalist schools, ₦6.5billion for the operation of hospitals and wellness centres, and lone ₦491million for the rehabilitation of h2o facilities. 

In comparison, the rehabilitation of roads successful the authorities received ₦10.8billion successful 2024.

In April 2024, the Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), an anti-corruption civilian nine organisation based successful Kwara State, petitioned the Kwara State authorities and the contractors progressive successful the Kwara Hotel project. 

The radical besides wrote to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The petition, signed by ENetSuD’s Coordinator, Alagbonsi Abdullateef, was submitted connected Monday, April 15, 2024, to the EFCC. 

It was addressed to Comrade Gambari Volvo, the Director of Investigation and Public Petition (Kwara Central).

ENetSuD based its petition connected 7 cardinal concerns, including the abrupt discontinuation of a erstwhile declaration grant process, disregard for a institution that offered a cheaper declaration sum, the aforesaid task statement being utilized for some companies, the marketplace worth of Kwara Hotel, some companies being self-funders of the project, deficiency of a wide mechanics to retrieve invested funds, and the uncertainty of task completion timelines. 

In its three-point petition to the EFCC, ENetSuD urged the committee to behaviour a thorough probe into whether the Kwara State Government (KWSG) complied with the state's procurement instrumentality successful awarding the contract, which was done successful secrecy.

It besides called for an appraisal of the economical justification of spending ₦17.8 cardinal to renovate a edifice valued astatine ₦3.95 cardinal successful October 2017 and ₦5.42 cardinal successful July 2022. 

Furthermore, ENetSuD questioned the government’s information for disregarding a institution that projected a ₦3billion concession exemplary and alternatively awarding the task to different institution for ₦17.8billion.