EFCC to spend N488m on travels in 2013

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has proposed to spend N488m on local and international travels next year, the breakdown of 2013 budget has shown.

Early this year, President Goodluck Jonathan had promised that payment of travels by government officials with public funds would be reduced. He made the promise during series of protests that followed the announcement of increase in fuel price from N65 to N97.

But the anti-corruption agency will junket across the country with N400.5million while N88.2million will be used to travel around the world. Also, the agency will spend N43.8million on international training while N66.2m will be used for local training of officials.

Though the agency has a legal department, it has proposed to pay N100m as legal services charges while N14.7m will be used for refreshment and meals in the 2013 budget.

The 2013 budget breakdown also shows that N39.3m will go into sporting activities while N24.1m will be used to buy and sew new EFCC red “uniforms and other clothes”.

The anti corruption agency has also proposed to spend N31.9m on motor vehicle fuel cost while its power generating plants will gulp N74.3m in the agency’s next year budget which allocated N2.1bn for capital projects.

Source: daily Trust