Aviation: FAAN Officers Spend Nearly N1 Billion Annually On Touring Abuja To Lagos – Keyamo

Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, has said FAAN personnel who go back and forth from Abuja to Lagos spend around N1 billion a year on Duty Tour Allowance (DTA).

Prior to making this announcement on Thursday, Keyamo had earlier stated in an interview with Channels TV that the federal government spends over N500 million annually on FAAN.

When he did the interview on Channels TV, he later claimed that he had not yet been informed of the costs for the previous year.

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He noted that, having received a detailed briefing of the expenses, the total cost for the year 2023 was about N1 billion.

“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.

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“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,” he said.

The Minister, who spoke in an interview yesterday, emphasized that there is no going back on the relocation of the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos.

According to Keyamo, the headquarters of one of the seven aviation agencies in the country is being moved from Abuja to Lagos.