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, saying no additional vehicles would be assigned to them for movement.
This came as the Presidency explained that Nigerians’ perception played a key role in the President’s decision to reshape his cabinet.
The President’s new directive was contained in his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy statement, Bayo Onanuga.
According to the statement, “the cost-cutting measure was announced today (yesterday) in a statement by the President.”
Recall that in January this year, President Tinubu took steps to reduce government expenditures by reducing his entourage on foreign trips from 50 to 20 officials and on local trips to 25 officials.
Similarly, he reduced the Vice President’s entourage to five officials on foreign trips and 15 for local trips.
In the directive issued yesterday, 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, according to him, will comprise four police officers and one Department of State Services, DSS, officer.
He said: “No additional security personnel will be assigned.”
The President also instructed the National Security Adviser, NSA, to engage with the military, paramilitary and security agencies to determine a suitable reduction in their vehicle and security personnel deployment.
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