President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday directive the immediate implementation of cost-cutting measures aimed at reducing the cost of governance, putting caps on the number of vehicles in the convoy of Ministers and the security aides attached to each Minister and other heads of agencies of the federal government.
Under the new measures announced by Presidential Spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, all heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are restricted to a maximum of three vehicles in their official convoy.
The maximum number of security personnel attached to each is now pegged at five.
According to the statement by Onanuga: “President Bola Tinubu has restricted Ministers, Ministers of State, and Heads of Agencies of the Federal Government to a maximum of three vehicles in their official convoys.
“No additional vehicles will be assigned to them for movement.
“The cost-cutting measure was announced today in a statement signed by the President.
“In January this year, President Tinubu took significant steps to reduce government expenditure, by reducing his entourage on foreign trips from 50 to 20 officials. For local trips, he reduced it to 25 officials.
“He similarly reduced the Vice President’s entourage to five officials on foreign trips and 15 for local trips.
“In the directive issued today, President Tinubu also ordered all ministers, ministers of state, and heads of agencies to have at most five security personnel attached to them.
“The security team will comprise four police officers and one Department of State Services (DSS) officer.
“No additional security personnel will be assigned, he ordered.
“President Tinubu instructed the National Security Adviser to engage with the Military, Paramilitary and Security Agencies to determine a suitable reduction in their vehicle and security personnel deployment.
“All affected officials are expected to comply with these new measures immediately, underscoring the urgency and seriousness of these changes.”
