Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s approval of a supplementary funds earmarking hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for a presidential yacht and sport utility automobiles for his spouse and prime authorities officers has once more stoked anger amongst atypical Nigerians over what they see as a rising financial disparity.
Tinubu on Wednesday signed into regulation the funds that allocates $38 million for the presidential air fleet and different renovations. Some $6.1 million budgeted earlier for the yacht was assigned by lawmakers to “scholar loans” — with the senate’s approval.
The nation’s navy stated it had taken supply of the yacht, however “it has not been paid for.”
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Presidential spokesperson Anjuri Ngelale defended the supplemental funds as serving to “strengthen Nigeria’s safety structure and handle Nigeria’s vital infrastructure deficit, amongst different issues.”
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu is photographed talking a March 1, 2023 ceremony in capital metropolis Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photograph/Ben Curtis, File)
The spokesperson stated about 30% of the cash could be spent on safety, and one other 35% on “provision of vital infrastructure.”
Lately, the nation’s 460-member nationwide meeting confirmed that every one lawmakers will every get a brand new SUV reportedly at a price of greater than $150,000 every. The lawmakers stated the automobiles would assist them do their work higher.
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Nigeria, one of many world’s poorest international locations, is presently seeing meals costs proceed to soar to report highs. Additionally hovering is the frustration of atypical Nigerians who see politicians earn big salaries whereas others like medical professionals usually should go on strike to protest meager wages.
“It’s by the grace of God that I can eat. It’s exhausting,” stated Nduka Omeje, a dealer in Apo resettlement in Nigeria’s capital metropolis, Abuja.
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Labor unions struggled to get the federal government to boost the minimal wage for civil servants from a month-to-month $67 a month. The 2019 pay enhance got here after employees staged protests.
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