BREAKING: TINUBU CUTS ENTOURAGE ON FOREIGN TRIPS TO 20 OFFICIALS
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On Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu authorized “cost-cutting” measures that include a 60% reduction in the official entourage for both domestic and international travel.
This was disclosed on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja during a briefing by Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.
According to Ngelale, all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, as well as the offices of the President, Vice President, First Lady, and Vice President’s wife, were covered by the instruction.
He said, “President Bola Tinubu has approved that anywhere he travels within this country, he will no longer accept or allow huge security delegations to be following him from Abuja, which attracts massive bills with respect to estacode and duty allowances from now on.
“He has approved a massive cost-cutting exercise that will cut across the entire Federal Government of Nigeria and the Offices of the President himself, the Vice President and the Office of the First Lady. It will be conducted in the following fashion.
“On international trips, the President has directed that no more than 20 individuals be allowed to travel with him. That number will be cut down to five in the case of the First Lady. Additionally, the number in the entourage on official international trips for the Vice President will be cut to five. The number that will be placed as a limit on the wife of the Vice President is also five.
“In terms of local trips, the President has approved a new limit of 25 members of staff to accompany him on domestic trips. within the country.
Ngelale pointed out that the First Lady’s Office and the Vice President’s Wife’s Office are currently only allowed to send ten employees on national travel for official business.
Only fifteen staff members may accompany the vice president on official domestic travels.
Ministers can now only bring four people on international travel, while heads of agencies can only bring two, according to the presidential spokesman.
“By this directive, every minister will be limited to having not more than four members of staff going with them to any event anywhere in the world. In the case of CEOs of agencies, they will be limited to two staff going with them to anywhere in the world, he added.”
The development on Tuesday occurred four weeks after the Tinubu government faced severe criticism for traveling to the COP28 Climate Change Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a sizable entourage.
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