Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of
power, will spend the sum of N67 million on ‘residential rent’, as provided for
in the 2018 budget.
This is not the first time the
presidency is being charged for rent by the federal government – the tradition
precedes the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
In 2017, the sum of N78 million
was budgeted as its rent while N27 million was budgeted for the same purpose in
2016.
Another interesting appropriation
in a copy of the passed budget obtained by TheCable is that Aso Rock will spend
the sum of N7.3 million on ‘anti-corruption’ (fight?).
The provision did not specify
what the allocation will be specifically used for.
The amount is N1.2 million higher
than the N7.3 million budgeted for the same purpose during the 2017 fiscal
year.
The question begging for an
answer is: what is the ‘anti-corruption’ money used for?
To boost the fight against
corruption, the budget of Nigeria’s leading anti-graft agency – Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – was raised from N17.2 billion to N26.4
billion in 2018.
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