Tinubu Cuts Expenditure on Official Travel By 60 Per Cent and Reduce Entourage on Trips

President Bola Tinubu has unveiled cost-cutting measures to reduce the huge travel bills of federal government’s top officials in the presidency, and the staff accompanying them on trips.

Tinubu ordered a 60 per cent cut in the travelling expenditure of his office, those of the Vice President, the First Lady, Ministers and Heads of Agencies, as well as their staff.

Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngilale announced this while addressing the state house correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Under the cost-cutting measures, a maximum of 20 officials are now to be accompanying the President, while travelling outside the country.

For each minister, they will be entitled to a maximum of four staff while on foreign trips, and a maximum of two for heads of federal agencies.

Ngilale also said that Tinubu has abolished excessive security delegation while travelling states in the country.

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According to him, local security operatives would henceforth be responsible for the security of the president, vice president and other top federal government officials.

For local trips, the number of the entourage of the President has been reduced to 25, the Vice President 15, the First Lady and the wife of the Vice 10.

The presidential spokesman said that the essence of the reduction was to bring total sanity and prudence in the management of resources.

He also said that henceforth, ministers delegation for foreign trips will be a maximum of four officials, while the heads of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs will travel with the maximum of two officials.

On local trips, the President directed that there will not be huge security entourage that would attract huge bills in form of duty travel allowance.

The presidential spokesman warned that any official that flouts the directive will be doing that at his or her own peril.

It was gathered that a circular to the new directive has been sent out to the various ministries, departments and agencies from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF.