The 2025 proposed budget document has shown that Nigeria plans to spend N65 billion on reintegration or transformed ex-militants in 2025, report revealed.
The expenditure is per the presidential amnesty programme. While the government budgets this amount for “re-integration of ex-militants”, the Presidential amnesty programme website is non-functional, checks by SaharaReporters showed.
The website url, www.osapnd.gov.ng reads “there has been a critical error on this website.”
SaharaReporters earlier reported that a report by the Auditor-General of the Federation exposed a shocking withdrawal of over N6 billion without proper auditing processes.
These included payment of tuition fees to various universities for students under the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) without records of their identity.
The report highlights a blatant disregard for financial regulations, with N1.53 billion paid as tuition fees without supporting documents.
“This is a clear breach of Paragraph 708 of the Financial Regulations, 2009, which states that payment should not be made for services not yet performed or goods not yet supplied.
“Furthermore, the report reveals widespread breaches of Paragraph 603(i) of the FR 2009, which requires vouchers to contain full particulars of each service, including dates, numbers, quantities, distances, and rates,” the earlier report by SaharaReporters noted.
