Aso Rock budgets N2.3million daily for refreshment, N1.5m for eye glasses
Written by Emmanuel Aziken, Leon Usigbe and Tordue Salam, Abuja
Sunday, 18 November 2007

THE National Assembly has been allocated N65 billion out of the N2.5 trillion spending plan for 2008 proposed by President Umaru Yar‘Adua. N2.2 billion of the proposal has been earmarked for food, details of the proposal obtained by Sunday Vanguard have revealed. The Presidency including the State House has been allocated N26.9 billion in the 2008 spending plan with N1.301 billion going for feeding and refreshment in the State House.The N1.301 billion feeding plan for Aso Rock Villa is broken into N827.4 million for refreshment while another N474.06 million has been proposed for the procurement of food stuff in the State House.


In effect, the Presidential Villa would be spending about N2.3 million and N1.3 million daily for refreshment and procurement of food stuff respectively.

Out of the N65 billion proposed expenditure by the National Assembly, the Senate is to spend N19.893 billion, while N32.97 billion is to be spent on sustaining the 360 members of the House of Representatives. The balance of the legislature’s budget is to be spent on the National Assembly bureaucracy. The N65 billion vote for the legislature is the highest figure ever received by the legislature since the advent of the fourth republic.

A significant proportion of the National Assembly budget, amounting to N15.879 billion is devoted to keeping the legislators travelling across the country and the world in their duties. Members of the House of Representatives are to expend N10.33 billion for travelling purposes within and outside the country next year, a figure that is besides another N268.8 million earmarked for travelling for training- related purposes.

A total of N5.032 billion has been earmarked for the “general” travel of senators within and outside the country while another N278.2 million is proposed for travelling for training purposes.The Presidency is expected to spend N1.27 billion for local and international trips within the same period besides another N760.8 million proposed for travelling for training of Presidency aides and staff.

In seeming admission of the challenges posed by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) the Presidency is proposing to spend N225,612 daily, amounting to N82.574 million in the year to buy fuel to run the generators servicing the State House and adjoining Presidency offices. The National Assembly on its part has a proposal to buy fuel for its generators at a cost of N63 million. Despite the monetisation policy of the Federal Government, the Presidency is also proposing to spend N102.7 million on rents for some officials in the year while tax payers are to cough out N1.5 million for paying for the reading glasses of presidential aides domiciled in the State House.
The Presidency is also proposing to spend N10.468 million on sewages, another N80.7 million for the payment of telephone charges while N13.8 million is proposed to keep insects and other pests at bay from the Presidential Villa.


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Add N1.5 Billion for renovations.

This is why Nigerians are Bleep and DOOMED for ever.

Why do the senator need to travel for training?

Why cant all travels be suspended for a year and reinvest the allocation for travel overseas into the economy to make a difference?

A good leader has 6 month to twelve months to make a difference and change or they are classify as ineffective.

As long as we continue to spend blindly and stupidly. we will never have stable economy and electricity

OH MY GOSH!!!,  The new President is going along with this stupidity Is there an Email address to Aso Rock

The last time I looked, it is the PDP government, an extention of Obasanjo kleptocracy.
Government of looters, by looters, for looters.
Need I say anymore

Three gbosas for Nigeria's mega thieves and clueless Umaru Yar'Adua!!!!!!!!!

In seeming admission of the challenges posed by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) the Presidency is proposing to spend N225,612 daily, amounting to N82.574 million in the year to buy fuel to run the generators servicing the State House and adjoining Presidency offices.

This is the cool part, ASO ROCK runing on generator! I always knew this but 82mil will have installed at least 2MW power station.

what a wasted country.

In effect, the Presidential Villa would be spending about N2.3 million and N1.3 million daily for refreshment and procurement of food stuff respectively.

why cant each visitor bring his/her own food?? Yet 70% of nigerians feed on less than N100 a day.

this must be one big, fat, sick joke. this just goes on to spell doom.

any idea on the budget for toilet paper??

Our hallowed Senators that have yet to tell us if it was N200M or N400M that was spent to show us a movie titled “Take a bow and leave”, will still spend N5.2B on what they call general travel, in the document it read, that N32.97B will be spent sustaining 360 members of the House of Representatives.

In all N15.8B will be spent traveling within and outside, as Nigerians trek in their poverty, as our roads cannot even take those of us that can drive. Nigeria i hail thee will the poor man, the civil servant have an increase of N1000 in travel, in training, how much do Nigerians expect to get for food, for drink, for refreshment? Most communities do not have pipe borne water across the legitimate 776 LGA’s in the nation.

There will be no light in Aso Rock everyday so N225,612 daily, amounting to N82.574 million in the year to buy fuel to run the generators servicing the State House and adjoining Presidency offices. The National Assembly on its part has a proposal to buy fuel for its generators at a cost of N63 million. And then the average  cannot afford PHCN bill for light that is not there, he/she cannot buy alternative power generating set for his/her shop and house hold, the average nigeria does not exist in the scheme of any budget and does not matter at all to be considered in the scheme of things.

And then we are told that this budget is for the ordinary man, who is the ordinary man? is it any secret why Etteh refused to go when all we said was that she should go? Who will be in Aso Rock and want to leave, and face the realities of no light, no water, bad roads, no billions for training and travel with concubines? Nigeria i really hail thee

na wa 4 my country

the total of what the presindecy and national assembly plan to "invest" on power (light) is 145 millon because (in dia words) PHCN in not reliable. tell ma how much du PHCN need to provide constant power for 1 year.

I taya for this country