Irked by the colossal waste of money amidst the difficult economic situation in the country, the Federal governments yesterday, blasted Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) over N241.95 billion incurred on foreign and local trips, welfare, others.
A breakdown of the N241.95 billion showed that MDAs expended the money on top 5 items in 2014 which were Travels (Local and international) cost government N69.42 bn, Welfare 49.71 bn, Office Stationary and Computer Consumables N44.43 bn, Maintenance (All Fixed Assets) N43.20 bn, training (Local and international) N35.19 bn respectively.

Speaking at the ‘’Lunch Time Reforms Seminar Series’’ on "Efficiency in Conduct of Government Business’’ in Abuja yesterday, Head, Efficiency unit, Federal Ministry of Finance, Patricia Oniha, said, for growth and development [Job creation, diversification of the economy, improved quality of life etc], more of the country’s revenue should be deployed to capital projects stressing that to achieve this objective, Recurrent Expenditure has to be moderated.

Oniha said, “Governments now operate under conditions of revenue scarcity and massive deficits, Thus a fundamental change in the way governments conduct their affairs has become imperative’’.
She explained that the Efficiency Unit was established against the urgent need to achieve a better cost structure for the government and derive maximum value for money spent as government needs to use its resources more judiciously in ‘’Lean and Fat’’ times and government needs to invest more in Capital projects rather than recurrent expenditure.
She further stated, “The mandate of the E-Unit is on overhead Expenditure to generate savings for government from the procurement process using the government’s large buying power and Reduce costs through administrative tools and other measures.

Oniha said, ‘’Over the years and across the world, countries have had to deal with the issue of limited financial resources relative to their needs, the challenge therefore, has always been how to distribute the limited finances between capital and recurrent expenditure where options have typically been to, operate a deficit budget by borrowing to fund the gap, selling of some government assets and operate a balanced budget by matching expenditure to the available finances’’.
She stated that the new thinking of government is to to ensure the most efficient use of resources and that all opportunities to make savings avoid waste and increase productivity are vigorously been pursued.

In his opening remarks, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Dr. Joe Abah said that in an efforts to reduce the costs of running government business, the Federal government has taken the bold step to ban first class travels by civil servants.
According to him, “We are also looking for ways of bringing training back here to Nigeria rather than having a group of people traveling abroad and spend foreign currency, we are looking at maximizing the use of office accommodation, the Public Procurement Act itself has recently been amended to encourage the purchase of made in Nigerian goods ‘’ among others.
On what the BPSR stands for, Dr. Abah noted, ‘’We are out to improving systems and processes, improving the ways that things are done, explaining government policies which is what this event is all about, bringing the person in charge of the policy to explain to the public what they are doing and how they are doing it’’.
‘’We are presently working with the Head of Service of the Federation to improve the Performance Service of Civil Servants, we are working on rationalization of agencies and parastatals, we are working and making sure the merged Ministries work, and we are helping to reform all the MDAs’’.


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Why blast them for spending money on travels when the presidency is doing worse?
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Hypocrites.
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Today na my born day, but i won't beg for likes.

why not stop them instead

Would blasting solve the issue?

Ebubeslym:
Why blast them for spending money on travels when the presidency is doing worse?
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Sychophants.
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Today na my born day, but i won't beg for likes.

You dey mind am, kettle calling Pot Black, pointing one fingers on Mdas when four fingers are pointing @ him, lets see how his own bill will be after all this his globe throthings.

Tor... What do you expect?

The level of corruption under this present Gov't will shock the world... We will all get to know this fact in few years time.

Hypocrisy

But the FG spent more on Buhari

Who's blasting who?

What of the one Ajala the traveller Buhari incurred?

Lol. You're pointing the blast gun wrongly, Oga Minister. Aim at the head, and all others fall into alignment, that is if the brain is in the head.

Birds of the feather

Sai BaBa that has visited 36 COUNTRIES should rather be leading in the spending spree

Sai BaBa is their Role model

When my Uncle was eastern director of NNPC.. I was small then... But I never forgot... He told my elder brother that's.. . Them the elite will never allow the Nigerians to be comfortable because a poor man is easier to control...

When it's time to bring money to loan to Nigeria u hear 5bn, 3bn, 3bn for agricultural equipment.. . But when the government spends on them selfs u hear hundreds of billions

This money can comfortably change the lives of over 80,000 Nigerians with 3 million loans
Or 160,000 Nigerians with 1.5 million Naira loans... and this will generate and instant.. . 400,000 jobs.. And improve our GDP by over 3 billion dollars
Why are our politicians wicked?? How in the name of God will someone steal 2 billion naira..?? ?
Why not go into production and male cool cash

Ebubeslym:
Why blast them for spending money on travels when the presidency is doing worse?
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Sychophants.
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Today na my born day, but i won't beg for likes.

Take time to read before commenting.

The money was spent (wasted) in 2014 when the Ineffectual Buffoon was in charge.

A breakdown of the N241.95 billion showed that MDAs expended the money on top 5 items in 2014 which were Travels (Local and international) cost government N69.42 bn, Welfare 49.71 bn, Office Stationary and Computer Consumables N44.43 bn, Maintenance (All Fixed Assets) N43.20 bn, training (Local and international) N35.19 bn respectively.

Too many lazy children on this site.

Is this a country ?

it's obvious buhari is the world best joker. The money spend on travel only worth 2017 budget of ghana.

princeade86:
Birds of the feather

lwkm bubu is simulating the system ......it has been going on before he assumed power .

is FG blasting buhari for too much travelling n hosting irrelevancies? Buhari sef

Blasting that will please the heart of zombies

falconey:
Speaking at the ‘’Lunch Time Reforms Seminar Series’’ on "Efficiency in Conduct of Government Business’’ in Abuja yesterday, Head, Efficiency unit, Federal Ministry of Finance, Patricia Oniha, said,
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/fg-blasts-mdas-incurred-n241-95bn-trips-welfare/

@bolded

is she related to our ONIHAXY

#justasking

Extravergance

war against corruption....

Acidosis:
Hypocrisy


But the FG spent more on Buhari

Buhari is the President, not a civil servant. His trips are not for luxury but in the interest of the nation. I wish wailers can be more matured and criticize serious issues

How much has Bubu spent on trips so far? Why not clear the speck in your eyes before the log in another's

Is dat all u have to say or u r bookin space

mrvitalis:
Ok

Ajala feel say na only him dey enjoy travel

PastorAji:


@bolded

is she related to our ONIHAXY

#justasking

I have no idea sir