Says capable of demoralizing lower ranks
BY BONNY AMADI
While Nigerians are decrying the use of dollars in the country’s domestic transactions, tongues have started wagging on the latest announcement by the coun-try’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that retiring military Generals will be given $20,000 each.
The foreign currency cash gift comes, amongst other mouthwatering bene-fits, even as Nigerians grap-ple with economic hardship.
As a result, a socio-ac-countability platform, Budg-IT has expressed concerns over the non-publication of budget breakdown of major government ministries, departments and agencies by the Nigerian government for the 2025 fiscal year.
This is even as the organisation condemned the recent retirement package for military generals in the country.
“We have observed that the 2025 FG proposed budget submitted to the @nassnigeria for review and approval and published on the Budget Office web-site omits funding for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road as well as the budget breakdown of some MDAs, commissions, and council, such as the National Judicial Council (N341.63 billion) and TETFUND (N940.5billion).”
“The 2025 Proposed Budget also excluded the budgets of over 60 government-owned enterprises (GOEs), including the Nigeria Ports Authority, Nigeria Customs Service, and the Nigerian Mari-time Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
“It is worth noting that President @officialABAT’s recent pronouncement regarding the retirement package of military generals, which includes the pro-vision of a bulletproof SUV, fully paid foreign medical treatment, $20,000 as estacode for medical trips, and payments for domes-tic help, contradicts his previous commitments to reduce the cost of governance and welfare packages to top-ranked public officials and civil servants.”
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