Posted on: 06:40 Sat, 07 Nov 2015



All 36 ministers in President
Buhari’s cabinet will be having their
convoys and aides cut down. One of
the ministers-designate, Chris Ngige
stated this while speaking to
newsmen at the end of the
ministerial retreat in Abuja
yesterday November 6th

“Yes, we shall operate a lean
economy because we are going to
block areas of leakages, retinue of
aides, protocol staff, large convoys
of cars are things that will not fly
in this administration” he said
Reacting to President Buhari’s
position that some ministers will not
be assigned portfolio’s in his cabinet,

Ngige said

“If you have portfolio, if you don’t
have portfolio, it is one single
federal executive council. You
bring whatever it is on the table.

That is not a problem at all. We
have the right to discuss things
around the ministries because it is
one single cabinet. The important
thing is that we want to move our
people from where they are now;

they are in abject poverty, which
concerns about 75 percent of the
populace. So, we need to actually
restructure the political and social
moment of the country and that is
what we are going to do.

That means poverty will reduce.”he said