It has been gathered that additional N3.9bn will be expended on the maintenance of the Presidential Villa, Abuja this year aside the N282.962m and N41.844m set aside for the General Maintenance Services of State House (Headquarters) and  General Maintenance Services of State House Operations (Vice President) respectively.

These figures are contained in the details of the 2016 Appropriation Act recently signed into law by the President and made available on the website of the Budget Office.

The Federal government will employ the services of a formidable construction giant in Nigeria, Julius Berger Plc to seen to the maintenance of the seat of power.

According to the details of the budget,”The State House Operations (President) got a total allocation of N1.698bn in the budget while State House Operations (Vice-President) got a total allocation of N289.617bn.

“Out of the N282.962m budgets for General Maintenance Services of State House (Headquarters), N182.079m will be spent on maintenance of motor vehicles/transport equipment; N11.545m for the maintenance of office furniture; N27.846m for the maintenance of office/Information Technology equipment; N13.620m for the maintenance of plants/generators and N47.870m for “other maintenance services.”

The breakdown of the N41.844m budgeted for General Maintenance Services of State House Operations (Vice President) shows that N27.139m is for the maintenance of motor vehicles/transport equipment; N1.451m for the maintenance of office furniture; N4.422m for the maintenance of plants/generator; and N8.832m for “other maintenance services.”