President Tinubu, Shettima To Spend N10billion On Trips In 2024, N200milion To Feed Aso Rock Animals

President Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima, are estimated to spend N10.13 billion on meals and travels in the 2024 Nigerian budget plan.

The National Assembly is currently reviewing the N27.5 trillion budget plan.

The proposed budget states that Tinubu will spend N7.6 billion on travel—N638.5 million for domestic travel and N6.9 billion for international travel.

Shettima’s travel expenses would total N1.8 billion, of which N1.2 billion will be spent abroad and N618.4 million on local travel.

The N660.5 million feeding budget was designated for “refreshment & meal and foodstuff for the offices of Tinubu and Shettima.” Of this sum, N372.6 million is allocated to the vice president’s office and N287.8 million to the president’s office.

A closer look at the budget proposal reveals that N33.6 million will go into the president’s meals and refreshments, and another N254.2 million will go toward supplies for food and catering.

The vice president plans to spend N35 million on meals and refreshments and N337.5 million on food and supplies for catering.

The budget document also reveals that N201.4 million will be spent on animal feeding at the Aso Rock zoo, which is classified as “wildlife conservation.”

N800 million will be spent on renovating the president and vice president’s quarters at the State House: N300 million for Shettima and N500 million for Tinubu.

The President voted N13.5 billion to repair President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kassim Shettima’s official houses in Lagos and Abuja as part of the 2023 supplemental budget that was approved last month.

The approved expense came from the N2.176 trillion supplemental budget’s N28 billion allocation for the State House.

The breakdown indicated that N4 billion would be used to renovate the President’s residential quarters; N2.5 billion would be used to renovate Aguda House; N4 billion would be spent renovating Dodan Barracks, the President’s official residence in Lagos; and N3 billion would be spent renovating the Vice President’s official quarters in Lagos, for a total of N13.5 billion.

The honorarium and sitting allowance for the president and vice were estimated in the 2024 budget proposal to be N152.3 million and N67.3 million, respectively.

The State House’s generators would cost N37.9 million to power, while N260.8 million is set aside for electrical costs.