The embattled Nigeria's Avaiation Minister, Stella Oduah, according to PM NEWS LAGOS will spend at least N800 million on vehicles in 2014, after splashing N643 million on 54 vehicles in 2013, her budget proposal shows.
The budget proposal obtained according to PM NEWS shows that Oduah will spend N250 million on eight operational vehicles for the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, and another N500 million to buy some trucks for the agency. She will also spend another N50 million on staff buses at the Ministry of Aviation.
The budget proposal shows that the ministry of Aviation will spend over N137 million on foreign trips. Oduah will also spend N100 million on her controversial Aerotropolis Consultants, the city-airports she claims Nigeria desperately needs.
She will then spend another 20 million on other types of consultancies and another N425 million on consultancy of Institutional reforms, legal services and commercial.
General consulting and professional services for the Nigerian Meteorological Agency will gulp over N8 million.
On airport internal access roads, Oduah would spend N200 million and another N100 million to paint on security gateways on express roads.
Oduah will also equally spend N820 million on the maintenance agreement for the TRACON support services.
The Ministry of Aviation will spend over N13 million on refreshment and meals and another N9 million on publicity.
In all, the ministry has earmarked N26 billion for capital expenditure and over N6 billion for recurrent expenditure. The total budget of the ministry is N32.3 billion.
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