237-day medical trips: Despite Buhari’s pledge to cut cost, presidential fleet racks up N64.15b

237-day medical trips: Despite Buhari’s pledge to cut cost, presidential fleet racks up N64.15b

By Wole Oyebade

The Guardian estimate showed that the trips already cost between N1.1 billion to N5.4 billion in sundry operational costs, including fuel, landing and parking charges.
 
Stakeholders reckon that the presidential extravagance is fueling steady rise in the yearly budget of the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) – contrary to President Buhari’s pre-2015 promises to cut running cost of presidential jets.
 
Indeed, the President has since 2016 been taking care of himself, religiously. Records show that between February 5, 2016 when he took the first vacation and on Sunday that he returned, there had been a total of 10 such visits to London with the President passing 237 nights.

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