The federal government has commenced a process to reduce the
number of international organisations Nigeria belongs.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Godfrey Onyeama, gave the hint on
Tuesday in Abuja.
The senior offical spoke while defending the ministry’s 2021
budget at the House of Representatives.
Onyeama disclosed that the ministry faces the challenge of meeting its contribution to those organisations.
“We are owing a lot, and in the Federal Executive Council
(FEC), there is a process to rationalise and cut down on the international
organisations we belong to. This is because we are just owing monies left and
right and it is not even good for the image of the country,” he said.
Decrying the poor funding of the ministry, he said the
movement of officers, ambassadors and their families was a major problem.
He said currently that N1.6billion is required for the
movement of ambassadors, while officers will require N3.7billion.
Onyeama told the lawmakers that the inadequate overhead
budgetary provisions to Nigerian missions must be addressed.
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