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Billions of naira of taxpayers’ money has been expended on
the foreign trips of President Goodluck Jonathan despite his January promise to
cut down on such trips.
According to the Punch Newspaper’s findings, the President
and his entourage have spent not less than N3.354bn on foreign trips since
2010.
Our correspondent learnt that in the first 11 months of
2012, the President had travelled out of the country at least 20 times,
including his trip to Sierra Leone in October and the D8 Summit he attended in
Pakistan in November.
In September alone, Jonathan travelled out of the country
four times. He travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a two-day visit on
September 1 for the burial of late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Nine days later, he went to Malawi and Botswana in a
cumulative three-day visit for enhancement of bilateral relationships.
The President ended the month of September with another trip to New York,
United States for the United Nations General Assembly
From February, 2010 when he became the Acting President to
December 2010, Jonathan has spent N970.891m on foreign travels.
I bet nobody is as tired as I am of hearing of all these.
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