The Project Manager for Tracka, a civic technology platform, Mercy Danjuma Usman has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to cut waste and reduce the cost of governance.
She said the spending of N41.9bn of taxpayers money to service the Presidential Air Fleet was unacceptable.
Miss Usman, in an interview with reporters in Abuja, stressed the need for public officials to keep to their campaign promises to citizens.
Buhari had during the 2015 presidential election campaigns pledged to reduce waste in governance by downsizing the presidential fleet.
As of October 2016, when the Presidency last made a public inventory of the PAF, the fleet included 10 aircraft, namely one Boeing Business Jet (or Air Force One) 737, one Gulfstream G550, one Gulfstream G500, one Hawker 4000, two Falcon 7X, two AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters, and two AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters.
She said: “The Buhari government must live up to its promise to cut the cost of governance by reducing the presidential fleets.
“The Nigerian president doesn’t need plenty of presidential fleets that will be redundant.
“As a platform, Tracka urges the President to dispose of some of the aircrafts and channel the resources into other productive ventures.”
She said Tracka will continue to hold public officers accountable to ensure that they deliver on their campaign promises to Nigerians.
According to her, the focus of Tracka is to ensure that taxpayers’ money is put to proper use.
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