President Bola Tinubu has ordered ministers, ministers of state, and heads of agencies of the Federal Government to travel in a convoy of not more than three vehicles.
The president’s spokesman Bayo Onanuga made this known in a statement on Thursday.
He said, “President Bola Tinubu has restricted Ministers, Ministers of State, and Heads of Agencies of the Federal Government to a maximum of three vehicles in their official convoys.
“No additional vehicles will be assigned to them for movement.”
Tinubu, according to the statement, also ordered all ministers, ministers of state, and heads of agencies to have at most five security personnel attached to them.
“The security team will comprise four police officers and one Department of State Services officer.
“’No additional security personnel will be assigned, he ordered,” the statement read.
Mr Onanuga said Tinubu also instructed the national security adviser to engage with the military, paramilitary and security agencies to determine a suitable reduction in their vehicle and security personnel deployment.
This comes 24 hours after the president reshuffled his cabinet.
In January 2024, Tinubu issued a directive which the Presidency said was to reduce government expenditure.
The directive included reducing his entourage on foreign trips from 50 to 20 officials.
For local trips, he reduced it to 25 officials.
Similarly, he reduced the vice president’s entourage to five officials on foreign trips and 15 for local trips.