According to Punch, the move is a part of the strategies aimed at reducing government's recurrent expenditure as well as curb wastages in the management of resources.
The proposal for the reduction in meal allowances had been prepared by the Efficiency Unit in the Ministry of Finance and was on Friday forwarded to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for ratification.
The Efficiency Unit was set up by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, last year to reduce the recurrent expenditure, which has an outlay of N2.65tn in the 2016 budget. It is headed by Mrs. Patience Oniha.
The unit noted that meal and refreshment allowances featured consistently in government budgets. In the 2016 budget, N104.74m was approved for refreshments and meals for the Presidency.
Similarly, the sum of N14.45m was allocated for the same purpose in the Ministry of Agriculture, while the ministries of Petroleum, Defence, Transportation and Niger Delta, among others, have the sums of N18.3m, N14.92m, N15.41m and N11.03m allocated to them, respectively.
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