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The Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party have kicked against the N55bn allocated in the 2025 budget for the maintenance of the presidential fleet.
This is contained in the 2025 Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly for approval.
If approved by the lawmakers, over N55.5bn will be spent on total overhauling of three aircraft engines in the presidential fleet, including fuelling, fumigation, air navigation, cleaning, and other maintenance of the presidential fleet.
The entire aviation ministry’s 2025 budget stands at N105,953,496,365, The PUNCH understands.
The budget, which was scrutinised by our correspondent, showed that the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development has N71,123,368,069; the Nigerian Meteorological Agency gets N9,819,554,829, while N7,975,364,319 goes to the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria.
Others are the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, with N10,035,209,148, and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, which was allocated N7,000,000,000.
Meanwhile, at least N19.43bn was spent on the maintenance and operations of the Presidential Air Fleet from July 2023 to September 2024, The PUNCH gathered.
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