15 Things President Buhari Is Doing To Cut down The Cost Of Governance And Reduce Wastage

FG Replies Peter Obi: How Buhari Cuts
Cost of Governance.
A Presidential Aide, Mrs Lauretta Onochie shared
what might seem to be an Epic Reply to Peter Obi’s
Speech on the Platform on “How to Cut down the
cost of governance”. See Below:
15 Things President Buhari Is Doing To Cut down
The Cost Of Governance And Reduce Wastage
1) Buhari and his vice took a paycut of 50% to
symbolise their commitment to the cutting down on
the cost of governance.
2) Buhari then directed the RMAFC to review and
prune down the salary of all public office holder in
the country. That review will only come into effect
after the expiration of the tenure of the current office
holders, as the constitution says RMAFC cannot
review the salary to the disadvantage of public office
holders the moment they get into office.
3) Buhari reduced the number of federal ministries
from over 40 to just over 20. Buhari reduced the
number of federal advisers by more than 50%.
4) Buhari has limited the number of his entourage on
foreign trips to essential personnels only.
4b) Buhari implemented the TSA to plug leakages in
every institution of government.
5) Buhari has used the BVN to fish out over 40,000
ghost workers, thereby saving billions of naira of
monthly salary for Nigeria.
6) Buhari removed the fraudulent subsidy, thereby
saving government trillions of naira of ANNUAL
payment for a programme that was only oiling the
pockets of the corrupt.
7) No Federal Minister in Buhari’s cabinet can travel
out of Abuja without Buhari’s say-so, thereby cutting
down on wasteful spending associated with aimless
travels.

10) Buhari has restructured the NNPC into a
profitable venture for the first time in ages, the waste
and leakages associated with the corporation has
been reduced drastically.
9) Before Buhari appointed his Ministers, he spent
months plugging leakages in the Federal Civil Service
and Revenue Generating Agencies, resulting in
Nigeria having more revenue to fund the budget from
the non-oil sector than the oil-sector, for the first
time since oil was discovered in Nigeria. Before
Buhari took over, the oil sector contributed to 85% of
our national revenue.
10) And most recently, Buhari has ordered the sale of
2 presidential jets from a fleet of ten, and directed
that some of the jets be transferred to the Airforce for
operational purposes thereby saving security agency
the purchase cost of new jets.
11) President Buhari turned down moves to procure
new cars for his office, preferring to use the ones left
behind by his predecessor.
12) President Buhari has reduced the import of
certain items we have comparative advantage in
producing, in order to reduce the waste of foreign
reserves.
13) Buhari also liberalised the petroleum sector,
allowing importers to source for forex themselves,
thereby reducing the waste of foreign reserves.
15) President Buhari’s fight against corruption has
also brought in a new discipline in the way public
office holders handle money, they are now aware that
they may be called to give account of their spending
later in the future.
The list of what Buhari is doing to cut down waste
and reduce the cost of governance is almost endless.
No other president in Nigeria has shown a greater
commitment to this course than Buhari. It’s true that
Nigeria’s problem is enormous and it becomes
difficult to feel the immediate impact of what he is
doing, but to sit down there and call him names
because you don’t know what he’s doing is not only
uncharitable but disrespectful.