Minister Blames Blackout For Delay In Ministry’s Budget Defence
Aisha Jummai Alhassan, Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development[/caption]
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Jummai Alhassan has blamed consistent blackout at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja for the delay in submitting documents necessary for the ministry’s 2017 budget defence to the House of Representatives.
Alhassan, on Tuesday, lamented that the secretariat in particular had gone for three weeks without power supply.
The minister said that she and the ministry’s permanent secretary had occasionally dipped hands in their pockets to power the Women Center.
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“The challenge we had is that, sometimes at the secretariat, we stay for three, four, five weeks without light.
“Right now, this is the third week that we have stayed without light.
“The permanent secretary and I had to raise money personally to buy diesel at the Women Centre to do it.
“At the time, because there was no light we couldn’t retrieve data from the desk top computers.
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“Unfortunately, we did not have the data in flash drives, so it was partly our fault and partly not ours.
“But all I can say is that, honourable chairman, we sincerely apologize.
“We are very sorry for that and it will not repeat itself,” Alhassan said.
