Food and travel cost N33.88b in 7 years
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Food and travel costs in the Villa rack up an average N4.84 billion yearly and will total N33.88 billion in seven years from 2016 to 2022, with food munching N4.94 billion and travel stretching N28.94 billion in air miles.
Budgets between 2016 and 2022 show allocations for food to include foodstuff/catering materials, refreshment and meals, and cooking gas/fuel. Travel allocations include local and international trips, per reporting by The PUNCH.
Muhammadu Buhari’s junket to Istanbul on Thursday is the ninth in the past three months alone.
It comes after his travels to
- New York (September)
- Adis Ababa (October)
- Riyadh (October)
- Scotland (October)
- London (November)
- Paris (November)
- Pretoria (November)
- Dubai (December)
Total yearly budget for food and travel in Aso Rock from 2016 is as follows:
- 2016 – N3.27 billion
- 2017 – N3.11 billion
- 2018 – N3.81 billion
- 2019 – N3.39 billion
- 2020 – N7.46 billion
- 2021 – N6.07 billion
- 2022 – N6.77 billion
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Travel takes the larger chunk of the budget each year.
2016
Travel – N2.75 billion
Food – N518.45 million
2017
Travel – N2.43 billion
Food – N681.79 million
2018
Travel – N3.23 billion
Food – N582.75 million
2019
Travel – N2.98 billion
Food – N617.45 million
2020
Travel – N6.98 billion
Food – N483.78 billion
2021
Travel – N5.28 billion
Food – N793.26 million
2022
Travel – N5.29 billion
Food – N1.84 billion
The allocations cover the Presidency and its agencies which include
- Bureau of Public Enterprises
- National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru
- National Emergency Management Agency
- Economic and Financial Crime Commission
- Bureau of Public Procurement
- Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission
- State House Medical Centre
- State House Lagos Liaison Office
- Office of the Chief of Staff to the President
- Chief Security Officer to the President
- Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals
- Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President
