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Tinubu, Shettima Spend ₦8.64 Billion On Travel Expenses In Three Months
President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and First Lady Remi Tinubu spent not less than N5.24bn on local and foreign travel between January and March 2024.
An analysis of the travel expenses using GovSpend, a civic tech platform that tracks and analyses the Federal Government’s spending, showed that N1.35bn was spent as provision for presidential trips and other related expenses in three months, N3.53bn was spent on foreign exchange purchase during 10 international trips and N637.85m was disbursed to two travel agencies for the purchase of air tickets for presidential local and foreign trips.
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The payment made through the State House transit account to various recipients did not include estacodes of the President’s entourage.
This was as the government spent N12.59bn on maintenance of the presidential air fleet within the same period.
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