Details of the 2018 appropriation bill submitted to the national assembly by the presidency as obtained by Punchng.com, shows that the duo of President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice Prof. Osinbanjo will spend N968.4 million on their foreign trips during the year, while their local trips will take N334 million.
The breakdown shows that President Buhari’s budget on foreign trips alone is N751m and N250m on local trips, while VP will spend N217m and N84m on his foreign and local trips respectively.
These figures do not include N182m allocated for both local and foreign trips in the budget of the State House Headquarters. In the last budget of 2017, President Buhari spent N739m on foreign trips, while Osinbajo used N218m for the same purpose.
Also in 2017, N238m was spent by Buhari on local trips while his deputy’s local trips cost N88 million, spending N1. 28 billion on foreign and local trips in total last year.
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