President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a quest to cut the cost of governance has restricted ministers, heads of Federal government agencies to a maximum of three vehicles in their official convoy and no additional vehicles will be assigned to them for movement.
This information was disclosed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on information and strategy in a press statement on Thursday.
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.
“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,” Onanuga stated in his statement.
“The security team will comprise four police officers and one DSS officer. No additional security personnel will be assigned,” Onanuga added.
President Tinubu has also 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 and all affected officials are expected to comply with the new measures immediately.
