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The Nigerian Presidency has released a statement, saying a little above two billion Naira, not an outlandish six billion, has so far been spent on maintenance of the presidential air fleet between May and now.

The amount spent, the government said, included salaries and repayment of old debts.

In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity) ”expressed frustration at what he described as a fictional report that has caused the government a lot of negative reviews especially in the online media”.

The statement added, “The government is focused on solving the many major issues our country faces in the areas of the economy, corruption and security. Yet almost every week, the Presidency has to also deal with the distractions which do nothing but distract from the task of government.”

”Referring to documents he had requested from the Operational Office of the Presidential Fleet after his attention was drawn to the speculative report, Malam Shehu pointed out that the sum of N2.3 billion was released to the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation between May and November 2015. This includes releases for personnel cost, overhead and capital expenditure out of the sum of N5,190,381,386.00 appropriated for PAF on the 2015 budget.

”The documents also showed that the sum of N2,127,103,086.66 had so far been expended, leaving a balance of N172,568,912.34 from the amount released.

“However, the sum of N149,062,791.12 was transferred from the PAG’s operation account to the Treasury Single Account, following the President’s recent directive,” he said.

”He added that the sum of N23,801,122.17 remains unutilised out of the funds so far released. During the period 31 May 2015 till date, the Fleet expended the sum of N1,358,910,962.75 to settle outstanding liabilities carried over from last year till May 2015. Furthermore, the sum of N500 million was refunded to the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA for financial support rendered to the Fleet prior to release of funds from the OAGF.

”Thus, the Fleet expended the sum of N449,081,037.25 within the last months comprising N98,500,218.00 for operations, N165,373,176.91 on training and N85,500,116.75 on personnel medicals and overhead. Additionally, the sum of N99,715,493.51 was expended on aircraft maintenance, spares, and subscription services required for operations.

“Any of these documents could have been made available had the newspaper reached out to me or to any one of my colleagues. The damage to the image of government and the good management of the Presidential Air Fleet could have been avoided,” he said.

”The Senior Special,Assistant also put the number of aircraft on the Presidential fleet at 10, not 14 as cited by that report.

”He gave the inventory in the spirit of openness as transparency instituted by the Buahri administration as made up of:

PAF-AIRCRAFT INVENTORY

1. 1× 737 BBJ
2. 1× G550
3. 1× G500
4. 2× Falcon 7X
5. 1× HS 4000
6. 2× Agusta139
7. 2× Agusta 101

Total aircraft holdings 10.”‎

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The Nigerian Presidency has released a
statement, saying a little above two billion Naira,
not an outlandish six billion, has so far been
spent on maintenance of the presidential air
fleet between May and now.

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I'm not even surprised...... Whether 2bN or 6bN, whichever one..... The rate at which our one chance government travels just to snap pictures and come back, really shows much is spent on Presidential Air Fleet. [/size]

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This is what we voted for- accountability.

Garba thanks for the clarifications...Wailers over to una

I have packs of handkerchief for wailers on this.
Tho, I care less about them but am just wondering if this man hav to reply them every now and then. Left to Adesina alone, he love seeing them wail so he can give them another name.
They think everybody is like their Chief looter who spend money without thinking of the people.

I will b damned I dis makes FP..

NL get as e be dis days

Good!

Severalsnake and firefire have something to say.

The lying liars would always have something to say to defend their propaganda.


Buhari is a corrupt Terrorist.

Do you expect body odour to agree that he spent N5.8 Billion for flying and snapping pinsure around the world?

I will be sleeping tonite with empty stomach yet u people re sharing Billions of Naira..

Hibernating Thunder will strike some people ooo...

That man with body odour was here...

Good response. However, PDP and children of hate should allow this government perform oooo!!!

Garba Shehu has done the needful by providing detailed figures and statistic to back his claim up,one would expect his doubters to equally rubish his claims with the"accurate and real"figures and statistics.

Will they prove him wrong?Of course no,they would rather mudsling and straw grasp.

Funny people.