All affected officials are expected to comply with these new measures immediately, underscoring the urgency and seriousness of these changes
By Moses Okorie
In a bid to reduce cost of governance by government officials in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has restricted Ministers, Ministers of State, and Heads of Agencies of the Federal Government to a maximum of five security details, which include four policemen and one officer of the Department of State Services, DSS, and equally cut down number of vehicles in their convoy to three.
This new presidential directive was issued, Thursday, in a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, saying apart from this approved number, no additional vehicles will be assigned to them for movement.
Recall that 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.
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”, the statement added.