 Abia State Governor Alex Ote said his administration actually budgeted 150 million Naira for two Toyota Hilux vehicles, saying that the 1.5 billion Naira initially stated in an earlier report was an error from software. Governor Ote said this on Tuesday at Ezouku Road Market in Aba, while responding to a question by a journalist concerning the media reports that Abia State Government had voted 1.5 billion Naira to purchase two units of Hilux vehicles in its 2024 budget. Ote, who was at Ezouku Market to sympathize with some traders who lost their goods in a fire incident that occurred in the market on Monday night, attributed the controversial figure to a software glitch generated by the Excel package used in preparing the budget document but said the error has been corrected to intended 150 million The Governor said as soon as the news of the bloated figure got to him, he immediately had to cross check the budget numbers on his handheld device and found that the 1.5 billion Naira was not translated to the total budget figure and he was reassured. This is their daily livelihood, so we can't take more than that. Suffice it to say that anything that comes from government will be correct. So I believe that is an error, an error of the head and not of the brain and it has been corrected. But going forward, we think that first of all I must thank the people who pointed it out. It means that people are vigilant, people are checking and I encourage people to check, hold governments to account. I don't think there's anything to worry about. The overall numbers are correct and the figure of 1.5 billion was actually 150 million, two units of Hilux, Hilux prox at 75 million Naira each will give you 150 million Naira. That has been corrected. We are going to check the integrity of these buildings.