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 our correspondents in
Abuja on Sunday.
The N517.9m proposal for refreshments and meals is 42.9
per cent or N158.94m higher than the N359.94m approved
for the offices and the MDAs in 2014 .
Out of the N517.9m, a provision of N174.54m was made
for refreshments and meals for the State House in 2015.
The N174.64m, according to the budget, is 7.4 per cent or
N11.98m higher than the N162.55m approved in 2014.
For the office of the President, the budget breakdown
revealed that a provision of N142.47m was made for 2015
for refreshments and meals.
However, nothing was mentioned as regards refreshments
and meals for the President in the 2014 budget.
For the Vice-President, a provision of N25.58m was made
for meals and refreshments.
The N25.58m represents 136.8 per cent increase over the
N10.8m approved for the two items in the 2014 fiscal year.
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.
In the same vein, the Presidency’s budget for meal and
refreshments could be described as a sharp contrast over
what was budgeted for the same purpose in the ministries
of power and petroleum resources, as well as agencies
under them which have a combined total provision of
N48.7m.
The total budget for refreshments and meals for the Federal
Ministry of Power and its agencies is N11.61m while that of
Petroleum Resources is N37.1m.
In the 2014 Appropriation Act, the Petroleum ministry got
N39.65m. That of the Ministry of Power for the same year
could not be obtained.
Of the eight agencies under the Federal Ministry of Power,
only four had allocations for refreshments and meals.
A breakdown of the proposed budgetary allocation for 2015
shows that the headquarters of the Power ministry has
N4.96m; the National Rural Electrification Agency, N2m; the
Electricity Management Services Limited, N4m and the
Nigeria Electricity Management Limited, N652,111.
Also, of the six agencies under the Federal Ministry of
Petroleum Resources, only two have no allocations for
refreshment and meals. These are the Department of
Petroleum Resources and the Petroleum Products Pricing
Regulatory Agency.
The headquarters of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources
has an allocation of N27.41m; the Petroleum Training
Institute, N1.81m; the Nigeria Content Development and
Monitoring Board, N5m and the Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory
Authority, N2.9m.
The 2015 budget has a N4.358tn expenditure figure made
up of N412bn for Statutory Transfers; N943bn for Debt
Servicing; N2.61tn for Recurrent (Non-Debt) and N634bn
for Capital Expenditure (inclusive of Subsidy Re-investment
and Empowerment Programme).
While the recurrent vote is 85.8 per cent of aggregate
budget, the capital expenditure is just 14.2 per cent of the
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