The foreign trips of
President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the State House
headquarters will gulp about N1.05bn in the 2017 fiscal year.
Their local trips will cost the nation
N353.115m.
These are some of the details of the 2017
Appropriation Bill currently before the National Assembly as obtained by our
correspondent on Thursday in Abuja.
According to the
breakdown of the proposed budget, Buhari’s international travels and transport
will gulp N739.487m; Osinbajo’s will cost N218.296m; while the State House
Headquarters will spend N97.208m on the same item.
For local travels and transport, N238.201m is
budgeted for Buhari; N88.364m is allocated to Osinbajo, while the State House
Headquarters will get N26.44m.
Apart from the travel expenses, the President and
the Vice President are expected to spend N168.45m on foodstuffs as well as
catering materials and supplies in 2017.
This is apart from another N123.223m budgeted
for the same item for the State House Headquarters.
According to the breakdown, N114.967m is
allocated for foodstuffs and catering materials’ supplies for the President’s
office, while N53.494m is allocated for Osinbajo’s office.
For the State House Headquarters, the
government has allocated N100.82m for the payment of outstanding balance on acquired
canteen and kitchen equipment for the Banquet Hall, auditorium and Defence
House; N21.6m for cooking gas; and N97.2m for refreshment and meals.
The Office of the Chief of Staff to the
President will also get N1.152m for foodstuffs and catering materials’
supplies.
For the Lagos Liaison Office of the State
House, N8.350m will be spent on foodstuffs and catering materials, and N900,000
will be spent on cooking gas and fuel cost.
-Punch
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