Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies will spend N42.5billion to execute Information and Technology projects in 2017, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said.
NITDA’s Director General, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, who made this known in a statement yesterday, added that the amount represents 2.1% of the total capital budget of N2.4trillion.
But Dr Pantami cautioned the MDAs to seek clearance from the agency before embarking on any IT project.
He said: “NITDA is drawing the attention of Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as other government establishments on the need to seek clearance from the agency before embarking on any Information Technology (IT) project.
“This is in line with Section 6 of the NITDA Act, 2007 as well as Service-wide Circular from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation which makes the Agency the clearing house for all IT procurement the public sector.”
He said the objectives of the clearance exercise were to ensure transparency, alignment of IT projects/investments with MDAs and other government establishments’ mandates and functions as well as government IT shared vision and policy, among others.
