Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, says the Federal Government is determined to enforce fiscal discipline across the states to check wasteful spending.Shehu in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday that the Federal Government was not limiting its economic and financial reform programmes to the centre alone.He said that the Federal Government would force the state governments to reform their spending and build savings and investments.The Presidential aide was reacting to the current economic and financial challenges facing the country.Shehu said the reform would include blockage of leakages that allowed government’s revenues to be siphoned into private hands.He said that the ongoing probe into the finances of the military authorities was part of the reform aimed at checking corrupt practices in the military establishment.“Look at what a civilian administration is today doing to the military, investigating their finance and accounts that the military could not do to themselves.“See what the current administration is doing to sanitise the huge salary bill by eliminating payroll fraud.“So far, the federal payroll has been rid of about 40,000 ghost workers. More than eight billion naira stolen monthly has been saved.“We are also saving on wasteful expenses like First Class Travel and Private Jets for official trips.“The Federal Government is not limiting the reforms to the centre, but forcing state governments to reform their spending and build savings or investments,’’ he said.According to the Presidential aide, government is also increasing spending on capital projects, especially on infrastructure needed to make Nigerian businesses competitive and create jobs.
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