Barring any further change in the scheme of things, President Muhammadu Buhari may be retrained from embarking on foreign trips for the purpose of receiving medical treatment henceforth.
The State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar made the commitment when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs to defend his 2021 budget estimates.
The State House official had presented a budget of N19.7bn for 2021, out of which N1.3bn was proposed for the State House Clinic.
Umar’s remarks followed a warning from the committee asking State House officials to retrain the president from embarking on foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure that the State House clinic becomes functional.
The Committee Chairman, Senator Danjuma La’ah, said the committee would approve the budget for the State House Clinic but insisted that the President and other top officials of his government should no longer be flown abroad for medical treatment.
Speaking shortly after the budget defence, the Permanent Secretary promised to put necessary arrangements in place to meet the medical needs of the President and other top officials once the budget was approved.
He said, “We have appealed to the committee to assist us with the presidential wing of the State House Clinic.
“The N1.3bn is absolutely inadequate when you juxtapose the amount proposed, the labour, and the status of the principals that the project is going to serve.
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