Non release of capital budget to ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) stifle their activities, especially the payment of contractors executing projects for the federal government.
A contractor told TheNiche that he has not been paid since January and therefore cannot pay his workers.
He said the agency which awarded him the contract explained that the fee was built into the capital budget from which the government has not released any money this year.
Contractors affected include private security firms and cleaning companies.
The chief executive of a research agency in Abuja, who did not want his name in print, also disclosed that he could not pay the contractors under his agency because of the non release of the capital budget.
He said the situation is becoming embarrassing to him and his agency as some of the contractors are trying to rise up in arms against the agency.
A cleaning contractor confided in TheNiche that he is mobilising his colleagues to carry out a demonstration against the government because he is not convinced that it has not released the capital budget.
He queried why money should be released to pay the salaries of workers while contractors are not paid.
“I am owing my staff five month’s salary having exhausted my savings which I used in paying them for three months,” he disclosed.
