President Bola Tinubu has directed that all the entourages to local and international events be drastically reduced by 60 per cent.
The President has also directed that on every local trip of the government, the security details will be drafted from the host state.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to the new directive, the President will now travel with only 20 officials unlike before the number was over 50 people, the Vice President will now travel with five officials, the First Lady and the wife of the Vice President also five officials respectively.
For local trips, the number of the entourage of the President has been reduced to 25, the Vice President 15, the First Lady, and the wife of the Vice 10.
The presidential spokesman said that the essence of the reduction was to bring total sanity and prudence to the management of resources.
He also said that henceforth, ministers delegation for foreign trips will be a maximum of four officials, while the heads of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs will travel with a maximum of two officials.
On local trips, the President directed that there would not be a huge security entourage that would attract huge bills in the form of duty travel allowance.
The presidential spokesman also warned that any official who flouts the directive will be doing that at his or her own peril.
