Tinubu Government To Burn through N65Billion On Office Redesigns, Voyages, However Police Trust Asset Got N57Billion To Safeguard 200Million Nigerians - Peter Obi

 

The previous Anambra State lead representative mourned that President Tinubu endorsed the portion of N15.961 billion for trips for his assistants and the VP's associates, adding that by all signs, the President and VP will spend about N30 billion on trips from the financial plan.

The applicant of the Work Party (LP) in the 2023 official political decision, Peter Obi, has thrashed President Bola Tinubu for apportioning more assets to himself, VP Kashim Shettima and their helpers for trips than the sum dispensed to Police Trust Asset in the 2024 financial plan.

The previous Anambra State lead representative deplored that President Tinubu supported the designation of N15.961 billion for trips for his assistants and the VP's associates, adding that by all signs, the President and VP will spend about N30 billion on trips from the financial plan.

Obi said that Tinubu likewise endorsed the amount of N20 billion for the workplace of the Head of Staff for the remodel of the President and the VP's workplaces in Lagos and Abuja and their full 'digitization', making a sum of about N65 billion for outings and redesign, while a sum of N57 billion was dispensed for Police Trust Asset to get north of 200 million Nigerians.

He said that this is in spite of the rising frailty in Nigeria with half of north of 5,000 police headquarters the nation over working without practical vehicles. He noticed that police headquarters that have practical vehicles get just N5,000 everyday for fuel, convincing them to constantly request fuel cash to take care of crisis issues.

Communicating his mistake and analysis of the monetary designations, Obi composed on his X handle on Friday, "While I'm actually sitting tight for the receipt of the all relevant information of the 2024 spending plan for assessment and to guarantee the prioritization of the things for development, I wish to remark on a portion of the things that are as of now in the public space.

"The amount of N15.961 billion has been planned for trips for the assistants of the president and the VP. Assuming the helpers are spending this much, one can extrapolate that their chiefs, the President, and the VP, will spend two times as much which will be about N30 billion.

"This really intends that in 2024 the workplace of the President and VP, and their assistants will swallow over N45b for trips alone.

"Moreover, the workplace of the Head of Staff planned N20 billion for the remodel of the President and the VP's workplaces in Lagos and Abuja and their full 'digitization'.

"Assuming you add N45 billion, being the most un-that will be spent on transportation, and N20 billion reserved for remodels, it comes to about N65 billion, which is more than N57 billion, being the sum passed by the Senate last week for the Police Trust Asset, to get over 200m individuals.

"Go along with me in sorting out the options of what this sum can do in genuinely useful terms for our dear country, particularly in a basic region like interior security.

"We have north of 5,000 Police headquarters and activities, the nation over. A big part of these police headquarters have no practical vehicles. Indeed, even those that have are given under N5,000 for fuel in a day, which is the reason assuming you are fortunate, for conspicuous individuals like me, to call the police for any mediation in a crisis, the primary thing they tell you is - 'we have no fuel'.

"Expecting we choose to focus on our rundowns and utilize these assets as a large portion of the excursions and the redesigns are of no worth to our development and efficiency, we can move toward nearby producers like Innoson and others and request 2,500 4×4 trucks which starting today cost about N30 million.

"We will actually want to get a 20% markdown on the grounds that we are purchasing in huge amounts and paying them forthright. It will add up to N25 million every, which will be N62.5 billion for half of the police headquarters that don't have functional vehicles today, and which will be dealt with by the cash we save from the planned travel and redesigns.

"The N15 billion planned for the new home of the VP can be utilized for fuelling police functional vehicles by significantly increasing their fuel remittances from about N5,000 by and by to N15,000 each day, which will come to N13.687 billion."