Food for the gods! Presidency, others to spend N517.9m on meals in 2015

The Federal Government is proposing to
spend  N517.9m this year on meals and refreshments for
the Presidency, the Office of the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, ministries of power and
petroleum as well as their parastatals.
The amount is contained in the details of the 2015 budget
breakdown, which was obtained by Punch correspondents
in Abuja on Sunday.
Out of the N517.9m, a provision of N174.54m was made for
refreshments and meals for the State House in 2015.
For the office of the President, the budget breakdown
revealed that a provision of N142.47m was made for 2015
for refreshments and meals.
For the Vice-President, a provision of N25.58m was made
for meals and refreshments. However, while the State
House Headquarters, Office of the President and the Vice
President all have a combined budgetary provision of
N342.59m for refreshments and meals, the 10 agencies
under the presidency had a provision of just N67.4m for the
same items.
They are the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Millennium Development Goals which has a
provision of N8.49m; the Bureau for Public Enterprises,
N14.72m; the National Emergency Management
Agency,N14m; and the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission N20m.
Others are the Bureau of Public Procurement, N5.52m; the
Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative,
N3.81m; and the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the
President, N838,758.
Source: Punch