Tinubu, Shettima to Spend N7bn On Residences Amid Nationwide Hardship

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The renovation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's official residence and that of Vice-President Kashim Shettima in Lagos are to gulp N7 billion out of the N2.176 trillion supplementary budget presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday.

The development comes at a time there is nationwide hardship as a result of some policies of the current administration.

These amounts are part of the N28 billion budgeted for the State House in the 2023 supplementary budget. Also, the renovation of Aguda House will also gulp N2.5 billion while computerization and digitalisation of the State House was allocated N200 million.Acquisition, renovation and rehabilitation of two EFCC forfeited quarters as State House Complex at Mabushi area of Abuja is to gulp N1.5 billion.

The N2.176 trillion supplementary budget Bill was passed for second reading by the National Assembly on Tuesday.The breakdown of the allocations to other sectors and agencies shows that, Service Wide Vote takes the lion share of N615 billion followed by the Ministry of Defence with N476.5 billion while Federal Ministry of Works gets N300 billion.

 

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