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The presidency has rubbished a Nigerian Pilot report which said President Muhammadu Buhari's recent trip to the United States cost the Nation N2.2bn.
"The total cost of the trip to the Nigerian taxpayer was at the most minimal, in line with the policy of this administration to cut waste and extravagance," a statement signed by presidential spokesman Shehu Garba, says.
"In point of fact, the total amount expended on the trip by the Office of the President amounted to nothing near ten per cent of the speculated figure.
"Owing to the free accommodation provided by the host government, all the personal staff who accompanied the President on the trip received reduced allowances." it added.
"His son, Yusuf, received neither allowances nor estacode. The five Governors on the trip each paid his own way. Permanent Secretaries who traveled on the delegation did so in accordance with extant rules and none of them exceeded their estacode entitlements."
"Apart from the Nigerian Pilot's mischievous mathematics, it is shortsighted and misleading of the newspaper to have claimed that President Buhari's trip to the U.S. achieved nothing," it said.
"The total cost of the trip to the Nigerian taxpayer was at the most minimal, in line with the policy of this administration to cut waste and extravagance," a statement signed by presidential spokesman Shehu Garba, says.
"In point of fact, the total amount expended on the trip by the Office of the President amounted to nothing near ten per cent of the speculated figure.
"Owing to the free accommodation provided by the host government, all the personal staff who accompanied the President on the trip received reduced allowances." it added.
"His son, Yusuf, received neither allowances nor estacode. The five Governors on the trip each paid his own way. Permanent Secretaries who traveled on the delegation did so in accordance with extant rules and none of them exceeded their estacode entitlements."
"Apart from the Nigerian Pilot's mischievous mathematics, it is shortsighted and misleading of the newspaper to have claimed that President Buhari's trip to the U.S. achieved nothing," it said.
