The Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has allocated N12.7 billion for the maintenance of the presidential air fleet in the 2023 supplementary budget.

The proposed amount, it was gathered,  is in the recurrent expenditure of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) with a total budget of N29.7 billion.

Other items in the budget proposed for the ONSA are the settlement of outstanding annual service legal agreement and bandwidth subscription for ONSA intelligence platforms (N4.7 billion); and operation MAD Thunder-NSA (N10 billion).

The ONSA said it would spend N2.2 billion as “part settlement of outstanding liabilities for procurement of treated/operational vehicles for State House and ONSA”.

The federal government also intends to spend N5 billion for the purchase of a presidential yacht.