Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed has said his ministry is underfunded.
He said the information ministry is generally underfunded, subsequently affecting the digitisation of the country’s records and history and it may lead to loss of valuable historical information and records.
Mohammed stated this on Monday when he appeared before the house of representatives committee on information, national orientation, ethics and values to defend the ministry’s 2022 budget.
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The minister said: “We had an exhibition and I had to take the secretary to the government of the federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, to our office in Radio House to see the need for urgent digitisation of the records.
“The danger is that, if I need N1 million to digitise and you give me N200,000, what can I do? Year in, year out, we roll it over. Meanwhile, we are losing these documents by the day.
“There are some pictures that we need to preserve for our grandchildren. If we are unlucky to have flood or rains or fire disaster or termites eat up some of these valuable records, it will not be good for us. If we get timely release of money that we need for the project, it will save us of all these.
“Very soon, we will be going to the UK to get information pertaining to us.”
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