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FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by ijustdey: 7:04am On May 22, 2016
Barring last minute change in plans, the Federal Government plans a 65 per cent reduction in the allowances for refreshment and meals of top officials of government, an investigation has shown.

The move is part of strategies aimed at reducing the recurrent expenditure as well as curb wastages in the management of government resources.

It was learnt on Friday that the proposal for the reduction in meal allowances had been prepared by the Efficiency Unit in the Ministry of Finance and forwarded to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for ratification.

The Efficiency Unit was set up by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, last year to reduce the recurrent expenditure, which has an outlay of N2.65tn in the 2016 budget.

The unit, headed by Mrs. Patience Oniha, was set up to engender transparency and reduce government’s large expenditure through efficiency in procurement in the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government.

According to sources familiar with the workings of the unit, a reduction of about N8,500 per meal is being considered by the unit from the current N13,000 to about N4,500.

It was gathered that apart from the reduction in meal allowances, other recurrent expenditure items such as honorarium and sitting allowance as well as advertising and publicity would be drastically reduced.

A source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “You will recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had, as part of measures to cut cost of governance, approved that the Minister of Finance should set up an efficiency unit.

“That unit has in the last few months been working hard to cut the recurrent expenditure. One of the recent recommendations made by the unit is on the need to reduce allowances for meal and refreshment.

“Before now, about N13,000 per meal was being spent on each top official of government whenever they have official meetings and others engagements. But now, there are plans to reduce this to about N4,500 by the template being developed for that purpose.”

While the details of the percentage of reduction in honorarium and sitting allowances as well as advertising and publicity could not be ascertained, it was learnt that the template for the reduction in meal and refreshment allowances was already being worked on by the unit.

It was gathered that once the proposal by the unit was approved, a new directive as well as the template for its implementation would be issued to all the MDAs.

The directive is expected to be captured in a circular to be released by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

The unit was concerned that meal and refreshment allowances had featured consistently in the budget of the MDAs.

For instance, it was learnt that in the 2016 budget, the Federal Government approved the sum of N104.74m for refreshments and meals for the Presidency.

Similarly, the sum of N14.45m was allocated for the same purpose in the Ministry of Agriculture, while the ministries of Petroleum, Defence, Transportation and Niger Delta, among others, have the sums of N18.3m, N14.92m, N15.41m and N11.03m allocated to them, respectively.

Attempts to get comments from the head of the unit proved abortive as series of calls made to her telephone number were not answered.

Commenting on the need to reduce recurrent expenditure, the Lead Director, Centre for Social Justice, Mr. Eze Onyekpere, said rather than reduce such expenses, it should be discouraged as it appeared wasteful.

He said, “We still have a lot of votes for welfare packages after the salary, remuneration and perks of office of workers had been voted. This is an expenditure head unknown to our law.

“Many agencies still got outrageous sums for refreshment and catering services as if they are running a restaurant chain. It made no sense as it is wasteful.”

The unit had in a statement issued last month barred all top officials of government from flying first class while embarking on officials trips.

It said all top officials of government such as ministers, permanent secretaries, chairmen of Federal Government committees, as well as chairmen and chief executive officers of parastatals and agencies should henceforth travel on business class.

In the past, some government officials who should have been on business class usually travelled on first class, while many others travelled business class instead of economy class.

http://www.punchng.com/fg-cut-meal-allowances-top-officials-65/

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Almajiri1: 7:31am On May 22, 2016
Simplify and make elective and selective political offices less attractive.Leadership is a call to sober service and not for faaji or self aggrandizement.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Splashme: 7:35am On May 22, 2016
These APC people can never stop lying.
Because they increased fuel price, they are looking for all lies to confuse zombies.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by TheNonce: 7:38am On May 22, 2016
grin



Those lazy bastards should be given tom tom or kolanut with pure water as refreshments abeg!



All the chow they have been consuming all these years has only helped them to create foolish policies! Alarm go reset their brains!

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by hungryboy(m): 7:40am On May 22, 2016
Chai,
Politicians don kill us for this country,

Imagine, 13000naira on just one meal for one man?,

Na full goat dem dey chop at once?.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by OlujobaSamuel: 7:41am On May 22, 2016
13000 per meal? na last supper? these people sef....

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by chriskosherbal(m): 8:13am On May 22, 2016
It's a welcome development.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Progressive01(m): 8:21am On May 22, 2016
Almajiri1:
Simplify and make elective and selective political offices less attractive.Leadership is a call to sober service and not for faaji or self aggrandizement.
True. Only this way can we get service oriented leaders at the corridors of power.

Imagine N13, 000 per meal!! Were they eating whole goats?? Haba! Africa and wastage! Even the N4, 500 being proposed is too damn much! Whatever is wrong with a meal of 1500 which is what one spends on a good meal on average complete with a small bottle of natural orange juice??

These are the things NLC should be striking against- protest against stuffs like this and see Nigerians from ALL walks of life lay down their working tools to join the industrial action!

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Progressive01(m): 8:34am On May 22, 2016
Splashme:
These APC people can never stop lying.
Because they increased fuel price, they are looking for all lies to confuse zombies.
And this very useless comment that makes absolutely no sense just to get likes. What a shame.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Godstraight(m): 8:36am On May 22, 2016
Splashme:
These APC people can never stop lying.
Because they increased fuel price, they are looking for all lies to confuse zombies.
see your life na

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Godstraight(m): 8:38am On May 22, 2016
Progressive01:
True. Only this way can we get service oriented leaders at the corridors of power.

Imagine N13, 000 per meal!! Were they eating whole goats?? Haba! Africa and wastage! Even the N4, 500 being proposed is too damn much! Whatever is wrong with a meal of 1500 which is what one spends on a good meal on average complete with a small bottle of natural orange juice??

These are the things NLC should be striking against- protest against stuffs like this and see Nigerians from ALL walks of life lay down their working tools to join the industrial action!
do you know Nigerian leaders are some of the most highest in the world?, now if the fg can achieve this then I will take this administration serious on their quest to rebuilding nigeria

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by debris: 8:45am On May 22, 2016
Meal allowance ke are u sure i won't save money to go and run for a political sit? shocked

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by greatness22(m): 8:51am On May 22, 2016
APC and lies just like psquare.

And some zombies will term it "a welcum development"

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by mrvitalis(m): 8:59am On May 22, 2016
Even the 4500 should be for foreign visitors our Nigerian official should take 1500 per meal, good companies will bid to make that happen
How much do this big companies spend per meal and the meals are great

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by RZArecta(m): 9:05am On May 22, 2016
The Mohamaddu Buhari led despotic junta should as a matter of logical wisdom stop all these shenanigans. If you want to do something just do it instead of advertising your idiocy like tv commercials. We all know that these expenses have already been approved in the 2016 rat infested budget presented to the national assembly by the slyest crook in Nigeria's history.

Please name this APC zombie

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Almajiri1: 9:16am On May 22, 2016
Progressive01:
True. Only this way can we get service oriented leaders at the corridors of power.

Imagine N13, 000 per meal!! Were they eating whole goats?? Haba! Africa and wastage! Even the N4, 500 being proposed is too damn much! Whatever is wrong with a meal of 1500 which is what one spends on a good meal on average complete with a small bottle of natural orange juice??

These are the things NLC should be striking against- protest against stuffs like this and see Nigerians from ALL walks of life lay down their working tools to join the industrial action!
I agree with you. The meal allowance should be discontinued totally. They either eat from their homes or buy meals from their salaries.

Look at the protruding stomachs of politicians and understand how they appreciate faaji much more than service delivery to the nation.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by weezii(m): 9:40am On May 22, 2016
Once it still reads "... To cut... " am not interested.


I need to see "... have cut... " until then I'd know buhari is now awake

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Abeymills(m): 9:41am On May 22, 2016
1st i say all dis is nonsence i work as a civil servant n i tell u most of this benefactors ie frm ministers 2 asistant directors in civil service benefits most the ones am priviledge 2work wit work so hard sometimes we live them in d office because they work late in2d nite jst c dat country moves forward so i say they deserve it i dnt benefits frm it as junior worker i recal hw obasanjo sold all govt qtrs n houses jst 2cut govt expences who bot all those houses?pls go n do ur findings d next is 2 down size d work force n render pipu useles i weep 4dis country d dark days ar back sufering in d mist of abundance yeye govt meanwhile did d president cut his own feedin allowance?

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Progressive01(m): 9:45am On May 22, 2016
Godgay:
do you know Nigerian leaders are some of the most highest in the world?, now if the fg can achieve this then I will take this administration serious on their quest to rebuilding nigeria
It is a shame honestly. Exactly what do these people do to deserve such "pampering" Just like Almajiri1 said, the feeding allowance should be discontinued in totality. What is wrong with them feeding themselves from their own pockets when millions of Nigerians who earn less than 2% of their salaries feed themselves without much stress??

Never seen people as greedy as our politicians. Tufiakwa.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Godstraight(m): 9:53am On May 22, 2016
Progressive01:
It is a shame honestly. Exactly what do these people do to deserve such "pampering" Just like Almajiri1 said, the feeding allowance should be discontinued in totality. What is wrong with them feeding themselves from their own pockets when millions of Nigerians who earn less than 2% of their salaries feed themselves without much stress??

Never seen people as greedy as our politicians. Tufiakwa.
I just tire

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Nobody: 10:00am On May 22, 2016
Sai Buhari
Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by ckmayoca: 10:50am On May 22, 2016
Make dem take egg roll with table water abeg. What a Bleep is 13k per meal. The other interior minister too said they spends 14k per inmate meal.

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by peter1994(m): 11:00am On May 22, 2016
I'm just tired of all these FG to do this n that.


Hence forth, just do it before posting it jor.
.

.FG to build modular refineries, FG to build new refineries @ ,,, to share resources with the existing 1s, FG to give certain amount of people 5k for 12 month, FG to feed primary school students for 1year.

Even the pencil factory, we never see

.may God bless Nigeria

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by omowolewa: 11:02am On May 22, 2016
Cut the cuttable
Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by JuanDeDios: 11:02am On May 22, 2016
hungryboy:
Chai,
Politicians don kill us for this country,

Imagine, 13000naira on just one meal for one man?,

Na full goat dem dey chop at once?.

As in ehn?! Meanwhile, some boys are hungry!
Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by DankemzI(m): 11:04am On May 22, 2016
And they keep singing that Nigeria is broke fucck them!

They say they can't pay salaries, Fucck them! But someone's wage is being used to feed an overfed, obsessed fool in a meeting that does not add 1kb I repeat 1kb to our economy/wellbeing


To the Niger Delta Avengers on behalf of my friends, family, community offline! We pay our allegiance to you.

Keep doing what you're doing we proudly be you! Zero the Economy so those fools will stay back in this shithole with us (masses)

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Nobody: 11:05am On May 22, 2016
Cut Presidential jets first...

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Nobody: 11:06am On May 22, 2016
... I concur with all those agitating that the meal allowance be caught off completely. This govt should pls stop all this propaganda : the govt will do this; this govt will do that. Why not just do it for heavens sake, and thereafter u can advertise it for all I care. The different agencies in govt have made many proposals and not one has been followed to its completion.
Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Nobody: 11:06am On May 22, 2016
ijustdey:






http://www.punchng.com/fg-cut-meal-allowances-top-officials-65/

Each time they say "FG TO" Do something it's something we are definitely not going to hear about again. If they are gonna do it, they should do it already and stop saying they are going to... When they do it they can say it but not before.... That's how they said they would make petrol 45 Naira when they get into power.... See now, they added to that 45 Naira .... 65%? They might end up increasing by 165%... That's how they are...

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Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by Nobody: 11:08am On May 22, 2016
Hmmmmmm hunger dey Nigeria oooooooo
Re: FG To Cut Meal Allowances Of Officials By 65% by publicenemy(m): 11:10am On May 22, 2016
Omoakinsuyi:
Cut Presidential jets first...


FOOL!

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