Senate wants Buhari restrained from travelling overseas

The senate has asked state house officials to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari from foreign trips for medical treatment by ensuring that the state house clinic becomes functional this year.

Senate committee on federal character and intergovernmental affairs gave the warning when the state house permanent secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before it to defend his 2021 budget estimates.

The state house official had presented a budget of 19.7 billion naira for 2021, out of which 1.3billion naira was proposed for the state house clinic.

Chairman senate committee on federal character and intergovernmental affairs, Danjuma La’ah, said once the budget for the state house clinic is approved, the president and other top officials of his government should no longer be flown abroad for medical treatment.