ABOUT N7.35b will be spent by the Federal Government on digitisation and computerisation projects in 2022.
This is according to the 2020 Appropriation Bill, which states that the amount will be expended on 109 digital projects.
The projects range from digital medical references for the State House Library to computerisation of staff records of different departments.
Seven digital projects have been proposed by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy Headquarters.
A digitisation project in the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing got the highest budget allocation of N442.43m. The project involves the establishment and operations of a comprehensive Federal Government landed property database management system, including the creation of digital infrastructure for real-time online preparation, execution and perfection of certificate of occupancy.
The sum of N739.10m will also be needed for the digitisation of records and registries.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee, Oluwole Oke, had in August, said that there was a deliberate move by the government to reduce the number of paper document exchange in ministries, departments and agencies.
Oke had said that his committee noticed that MDAs dumped huge volumes of documents at the secretariat to avoid proper scrutiny.
He added that to address some of the issues, the PAC and all its interfacing stakeholders would no longer deal with hardcopy documents.
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