FAAN Spent Over N493. 67m on DTA Alone-Keyamo

Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has said that principal officers of the minister, himself not included, spent a whooping N493. 67m on Daily Tour Allowance, DTA, shuttling almost on a daily basis between Lagos and Abuja. 

The minister made the disclosure in a post on his official X handle, @fkeyamo.

The figure is outside of the additional N451. 05m he mentioned earlier while speaking with Seun Okinbaloye on Channels television programmes, 'Politics Today'. 

 "When I did my Channels TV interview yesterday, I had not been briefed as to the amount FAAN spent last year alone on DTA (Duty Tour Allowance) for the principal officers who travelled back and forth from Lagos to Abuja almost on a daily basis. The amount came up to N493,678,620.37. This is aside from the air tickets which I mentioned that amounted to N451, 058,950.09. 

"So, in total, because of insistence on naming Abuja as the headquarters of FAAN (when there are no offices in Abuja to accommodate all the principal officers) FAAN spent close to N1 billion in one year!

In his interview with Channels TV, the minister insisted that there was no going back on the decision, pointing out that the movement of the headquarters of the airport authority became necessary in view of current economic and operational realities. 

According to him, the planned relocation will save at least half a billion Naira for the country annually. 

“We are going ahead. The directive has been given,” he said.