The Conference of National
Assembly Legislative Aides (CONASSLA), a forum of current and former aides to
members of the national assembly, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to reveal their running costs.
They also asked to know what
Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, ministers, heads of agencies and
parastatals of the government receive in running costs.
In a statement on Saturday,
Abdullahi Al-Mustapha, chairman of CONASSLA, said the executive should reveal
its running costs in-line with the transparency agenda of the federal
government.
CONASSLA said the information
should be published “in seven days”.
Mustapha said failure on the part
of the executive to do so would be an infringement on the trust of the citizens
who elected the government to curb excessive spending.
“This request stems from openness
of the national assembly in recent times, with the disclosure of the running
costs of senators and the inexplicable 2018 budgetary provisions that show that
the president alone, has budgeted over N900million for the running costs of his
cars in 2018,” the statement read.
“The national security adviser
(NSA) has budgeted over N1.14billion for the cleaning of his office in 2018;
and the minister of transport has budgeted N10billion for his transportation
vehicles in 2018.
“These figures, when combined
with the fact that the Directorate of State Security (DSS) intends on spending
over N2.2billion on social media running costs, and the minister of communication,
has owned up to receiving $800,000 in estacode, begs the question – how much
does the executive spend in running costs?
“We call on the executive branch
to publish the full list of running costs of all the offices and individuals
within its purview in seven days.”
The call for the executive to
reveal its running cost is sequel to the revelation of Shehu Sani, senator
representing Kaduna central, who said lawmakers in the upper legislative
chamber receive N13.5 million monthly as running costs.
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