President Buhari has written national assembly seeking Virement and Supplementary Budget for the sum of N242B to cover the total cost of 2019 elections.
The President made this disclosure trough a letter written to Nigerian Senate seeking such approval. According to the President, the breakdown of the budget indicates that:
INEC to receive N189B
DSS to receive N12B
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence to receive N3.5B
Nigerian Police to receive N30.5B
Immigartion to receive N
The letter reads in part: “As you are aware, the 2019 general election is scheduled to be conducted early in 2019. To ensure that adequate arrangements are made for free and fair elections, it has become necessary to appropriate funds to enable the relevant agencies to commence preparations.
“INEC and security agencies have accordingly recently submitted their requests. These have been subjected to the usual budget evaluation. The aggregate cost of the elections is estimated at N242, 445,322,600.
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