FG To Review Nigeria's Foreign Missions

President Muhammadu Buhari says his organization will embrace an audit of Nigeria's remote missions to focus those that are truly fundamental. The President put forth the expression on Tuesday subsequent to being advised by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bulus Lolo.

He said that a Presidential Committee would soon be set up to complete the audit.

As indicated by him, the survey would focus the quantity of key missions Nigeria expected to keep up abroad so that suitable models and quality could be kept up.

"What We Can Manage"

President Buhari clarified that there was no reason for Nigeria working missions everywhere throughout the world "with weather beaten offices and disheartened staff" when the requirement for a percentage of the missions was flawed.

"We should keep just what we can oversee. We can't bear the cost of much until further notice. There's no reason for imagining," President Buhari told Ambassador Lolo and different authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The President additionally required a record of previous government authorities and different persons as yet utilizing political and authority travel permits wrongfully, saying that his organization will make essential move against them.

"Something must be done with the goal that we can get back our respectability as a nation. A few individuals convey official travel papers and get included in a wide range of negative acts. We have to make a move," the President said.

Envoy Lolo had before told President Buhari that the difficulties confronting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs incorporated the unlucky deficiency of a Foreign Service Commission, poor financing of remote missions, approach irregularities and preparing insufficiencies, among others.