The Senate on Thursday told State House officials to retrain the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), from foreign trips for medical treatment. This according to them is in order to ensure the State House clinic becomes equipped and functional this year.
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The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the warning when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to defend his 2021 budget estimates of N19.7bn for 2021, out of which N1.3bn was proposed for the State House Clinic.
The Chairman of the Senate panel, Senator Danjuma La’ah, reacting to the proposal said the committee would approve the budget for the State House Clinic, however, the President and other top officials of the government should no longer be flown abroad for medical treatments.
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Umar in an interview with journalists after defending his budget promised to put necessary arrangements in place to meet the medical needs of the President and other top officials once the budget was approved.
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