A review of the proposed 2025 Budget has shown that the Nigeria Police in different Commands plans to spend ₦6.2billion on fuelling generators and vehicles.
According to the proposed budget document, motor vehicles fuel cost is estimated at ₦5.7 billion, while plant/generator fuel cost is expected to cost ₦511.6 million.
The development comes amid the present fuel cost, which is around or over ₦1,000 per litre, depending on location, as of the time of this report.
A scrutiny of the document revealed that a litre of fuel sells for ₦1,000, which means that police formations and Commands are expected to consume 511,678 litres of fuel for plants/generators. Police formations and commands motor vehicles are expected to gulp 5.712 million litres of fuel in 2025.
Other fuel costs include N5.8 billion for aircraft fuel cost, ₦7.5bn for sea boat fuel cost. Refreshment and meals is expected to gulp ₦165.1 million in 2025, honorarium and sitting allowance N64.3m, publicity and advertisements are expected to cost ₦517.1million.
Welfare packages are expected to gulp ₦1.2 billion in 2025; Sporting activities is budgeted at ₦919 million, recruitment and appointment (service-wide) is expected to gulp ₦2.9 billion, while annual budget expenses and administration is expected to gulp ₦215.5 million.
Already, there have been increased expenditure on fuelling due to surge in energy costs; Nigeria also faces a major problem with its electricity sector, especially as it has recorded at least 12 grid collapses in 2024. This has left Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to rely heavily on generators for electricity.
Aside from Government enterprises, the private sector has also recorded increase in energy costs since incumbent President, Bola Tinubu, removed fuel subsidy upon his swearing-in in May 2023.
